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HISTORY 


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NEWBURYPORT,  MASS. 


1764-1909 


By 

JOHN  J.  CURRIER 

Author  of  "Ould   Newbury";    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches, 
and  History  of  Newbury,    Mass. 


Volume  II 
With    Maps  and  Illustrations 


NEWBURYPORT,  MASS. 
PRINTED  FOR  THE  AUTHOR 

1909 


Copyright  igog. 
By  John  J    Currier,  Newburyport,  Mass. 


Chapter 
XIX. 

XX. 

'  XXI. 

XXII. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 

Pa(;e 
Topography,  Shipwrecks,    Fire  Engines,  Police,  Steam 

Navigation,  etc 13 

Soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  Military  Comi'a- 

NiES,  Gun  House  and  Veteran  Artillery  Association  84 
Lodges,  Benevolent  Societies,  Corporations,  Literary, 

Musical  AND  other  Associations  .  .  .  .119 
Biographical  Sketches  of  Merchants,  Sea  Captains  and 

Ship  Owners 189 

Lawyers  and  Doctors 255 

Authors,  Artists  AND  Engravers 311 

Philanthropists  and  Benefactors 380 

Contributors  TO  THE  Public  Library  Fund        .         .         .  402 

Eccentric  Characters 419 

Revivalists,  Foreign  Travelers,  and  other  Celebrities  455 

Members  of  Congress  from  Newbury  and  Newburyport  467 


APPENDIX. 

I.     Members   of  the   Massachuseits   Senate  Elected  from 

Newbury,  Newburyport  and  West  Newbury 
II.     Books  and  Pamppilets 

III.  Henry  Lunt  and  Some  of  His  Descendants 

IV.  Soldiers  Stationed  at  Plum  Island    .... 

\'.     Additions  to,  and  Corrections  of,   ihe  History  of  New 

BUKVPORT,       \'0I.UME    I 

\l.       ArjDITIONS  TO,  AND   CORRECTIONS  OF,  THE    HlSlORY    OF    NeW 
BURYPORT,      \'OLUME  II 

\  II.     Additions  TO,  and  Corrections  of.  the  History  of  Newbui^ 
VIII.     Additions  to,  and  Corrections  of,    "  Ould  Newbury" 
Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches 
IX.     The  Brigantine  Warren 


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495 
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562 

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592 


APPENDIX 

X,     Selectmen  Elected  in  Newburyport  from  1764  to  185 1      .  597 
XI.     Mayors  and  Members  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  from 

1 85 1  TO  1909  603 

XII.     Conclusion 614 

Index 619 


MAPS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


\'iE\\  OK  Nkwhuryport  FROM  RiNc's  IsLAND,      Ffoudspiece 


Life  Saving  Station,  1890 

Life  Saving  Station,  1908 

Wreck  of  schooner  Carrie  H.  Spofford 

Wreck  of  schooner  Abbie  and  Eva  Hooper 

Fire  Bucket,  1 746         .... 

Fire  Buckets,  1776        .... 

Engraved  Notice  of  Meeting  of  the   I'nion  Fire  Society 

Steam  Fire  Engine  "Eon" 

Enoch  C.  Flanders,   "Town  Crier" 

Titcomb  House  on  Green  Street    . 

Residence  of  Capt.  William  Nichols 

Steamer  City  of  Haverhill,  built  in  1880 

Steamer  Merrimack,  built  in  1892 

Steamer  E.  P.  Shaw     .... 

Steam-Tugs  Farnsworth  and  Thurlow  \\'eed 

Steam  Yacht  Dora         .... 

Residence  Col.  Moses  Little  at  Turkey  Hill 

Residence  of  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth 

Residence  of  Gen.  Jonathan  Titcomb    . 

Gun  House  ..... 

Philip  K.  Hills 

Gold  Medal  Awarded  Capt.  William  Coombs 

Certificate  of  the  Female  Charitable  Society 

Old  Ladies'  Home         .... 

Old  Men's  Home  .... 

Bartlet  Steam  Mills        .... 

Peabody  Manufacturing  Company  Mills 

Phenix  Insurance  Company  Building 

One  Dollar  Bill  issued  by  the  Newburyport  Bank  in  184 

Newburyport  .Athenreum  "  Book  Plate  " 

Robert  Hooper     ..... 

Punch  Bowl  presented  to  Jonathan  Greenleaf  in  i  75 

Patrick  Tracy        .... 

Residence  of  Joseph  O'Brien 

Moses  Brown         .... 

William  Farnham 

Residence  of  William  Bartlet 


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MAPS  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS 


Silver  Tankard  presented  to  Philip  Johnson  in  1 795 

Capt.  Micajah  Lunt 

William  Gushing 

Katherine  (Farnham)  Hay 

Ebenezer  Moseley 

John  Pierpont 

Residence  of  Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer 

John  Barnard  Swett's  Book-plate 

Dr.  Richard  S.  Spofford 

Dr.  Henry  C.  Perkins 

Hannah  F.  Gould 

Birthplace  of  William  Lloyd  Garrison 

Right-Rev.  Thomas  M.  Clark,  D.  D. 

Ben:  Perley  Poore 

James  Parton         .... 

Residence  of  Mrs.  Harriet  (Prescott)  Spofford 

William  Swain 

Thomas  W.  Lawson 

John  Appleton  Brown  ..... 

"  A  Moment's  Leisure,"  by  William  E.  Norton 

"The  Ancient  Mariner,"  by  William  E.  Norton 

Face  of  Bank  Bill,   designed  and  patented  by  Jacob  Perkins 

Back  of  Bank  Bill  designed  and  patented  by  Jacob  Perkins 

Jacob  Perkins 

Infuriated  Despondency 

Wolfe  Tavern,  1807 

Rev.  William  Horton,   D.  D. 

Oliver  Putnam's  Book-plates 

Putnam  Free  School  Building,  1848 

Putnam  Free  School  Building,  186S 

William  Wheelwright    . 

Hon.  Josiah  Little 

John  Rand  Spring 

Residence  of  Timothy  Dexter 

Timothy  Dexter  and  his  Dog 

(Gravestones  in  Memory  of  Timothy  Dexter  and  his  Wife 

Jonathan  Plummer 

Residence  of  Theophilus  Bradbury 

Hon.  Jeremiah  Nelson 

Hon.  Caleb  Gushing 

Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone 

Salt  Works  in  Salisbury,  Mass. 


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486 

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History  of  Newburyport. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

TOPOGRAPHY,    SHIPWRECKS,    FIRE    ENGINES,    POLICE,    STEAM 
NAVIGATION,    ETC. 

An  ice-sheet,  or  continental  glacier,  twenty-three  hundred 
feet  thick,  is  supposed  to  have  covered  all  New  England  in  the 
ice  epoch. 

"  The  topography  of  Essex  County  owes  its  characteristic  features  to 
the  work  of  the  continental  glacier.  This  glacial  drift  assumes,  within 
comparatively  limited  areas,  forms  so  numerous  and  so  varied  as  to  ren- 
der the  region  an  exceptional  one  for  study.  The  bare,  rounded  surfaces 
•of  the  granite  and  other  outcropping  bed-rocks  tell  the  story  of  a  grind- 
ing force.  The  long,  sloping  hills,  the  drumlins  of  boulder-till,  the  "  ket- 
tle holes,"  or  sites  where  icebergs  in  front  of  a  retreating  ice-sheet  had 
been  buried  in  over-wash  sands  and  gravels,  are  all  to  be  seen  in  various 
parts  of  the  county."' 

On  the  easterly  side  of  the  road  through  the  "  Pines,"  ex- 
tending  from  the  old  Amesbury  ferry  road  to  the  Curzon  Mill 
road,  in  Newburyport,  kames  and  ice  holes  are  numerous  and 
clearly  defined.-  A  broad-topped  esker  extends  the  whole 
length  of  High  street,  through  Old  town,  in  Newbury,  and 
out  into  the  tidal  marsh  north  of  Parker  river.^  On  this 
ridge,  or  esker,  of  boulder-till  and  gravel,  a  broad  highway 
was  laid  out  from  what  is  now  known  as  the  lower  green,   in 

'The  Physical  Geography,  Geology,  Mineralogy,  ami  Paleontology  of  Essex 
County,  Mass.,  by  John  Henry  Sears,  page  2^(). 

-The  term  Kame  is  used  to  designate  deposits,  chiefly  of  sand  and  gravel,  made 
at  the  margin  or  periphery  of  the  glacier,  or  pushed  along  in  front  of  ice  blocks, 
sometimes  entirely  covering  them. 

^Eskers,  composed  chiefly  of  coarse  gravel,  rounded  boulders  and  sand,  are 
believed  to  have  been  deposited  in  the  beds  of  sub-glacial  streams.  In  eastern 
Massachusetts  they  are  rarely  found  more  than  a  mile  long. 

13 


14 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 


Newbury,  to  Poore's  lane,  now  Woodland  street,  Newburyport^ 
as  early  as  1645. 

The  Merrimack  river  was  probably  a  halting  place  of  the  glacial  ice 
in  its  retreat  northward,  for  its  southern  shore,  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Parker  river  to  Pipe  Stave  hill,  marks  typical  ice-contacts  of  morainal-till 
and  overwash  gravels  capped,  by  sand  and  silt.  High  street,  in  Newbury 
and  Newburyport,  is  laid  out  upon  the  top  of  the  terrace  formed  by  this 
ice-contact,  a  section  of  which  shows  it  to  be  composed  of  boulder-till 
and  clay-beds  resting  upon  the  glaciated  bed-rock  of  quartz,  augite  dio- 
rite  in  varying  depths.  At  Grasshopper  plain  it  is  at  least  fifty  feet  in 
thickness,  and  is  covered  by  twenty  feet  of  coarse  gravel,  with  twenty- 
live  feet  of  fine  sand  at  the  surface.  This  fine  sand  is  creased  by  a 
number  of  steep-sided  valleys,  or  drainage-creases,  extending  in  a  south- 
erly direction  to  the  Little  river  clay-beds  in  Newbury.  A  section  of  this 
terrace  across  High  street,  extending  from  the  river  through  Green 
street  to  the  fi'og  pond  by  "  the  Mall,"  gives  boulder-till  on  High  street 
at  an  elevation  of  eighty  feet  above  tide  water.  The  frog  pond  is  the 
site  of  a  small  detached  iceberg  that  was  buried  in  the  morainal-till. 
South  of  "  the  Mall  "  the  overwash  and  outwash  gravels  have  formed  a 
series  of  cones  and  short  ridges  or  kames  of  sand  and  gravel  extending 
southeasterly  into  Newbury.  The  tracks  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  rail- 
road cut  through  these  gravels  on  the  west,  and  the  track  of  the  City 
Freight  railroad  cuts  through  them  on  the  east. 

South  of  Oak  Hill  Cemetery  there  is  a  "  kettle  hole  "  which,  a  few 
years  ago,  contained  a  floating  island.  In  the  spring  of  the  year,  when 
the  melting  snows  raise  the  water  level,  this  pond  covers  an  area  of  about 
a  quarter  of  an  acre.  It  is  a  typical  small  ice-block  hole,  with  south- 
eastern outwash  sand  and  gravel  kames  probably  deposited  in  cracks  or 
gorges  in  the  glacial  ice  which  filled  the  whole  valley  of  Little  river.' 

When  the  town  of  Newbury  was  incorporated,  in  1635,  it 
had  an  area  of  about  thirty  thousand  acres  of  land  and  water,, 
bounded  on  the  north  and  west  by  the  Merrimack  river,  on 
the  south  by  the  town  of  Ipswich,  and  on  the  east  by  the 
Atlantic  ocean.  The  first  settlers  built  their  dwelling  houses 
near  the  "  lower  green,"  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Ouascacun- 
quen,   now    Parker,    river.      In    1639,    that    portion    of    this 

'The  Physical  Geography,  Geology,  Mineralogy  and  Paleontology  of  Essex  County j. 
Mass.,  by  John  Heniy  Sears,  pages  296-301. 


TOPOGRAPHY,  FIRE  ENGINES,  POLICE,  ETC.  15 

territory,  lying  southerly  of  the  present  line  of  Newbury  and 
West  Newbury,  was  set  off  as  a  part  of  the  new  town  of 
Rowley;  and  in  1645  a  new  settlement  was  laid  out  on  the 
southerly  bank  of  the  Merrimack  river  in  Newbury,  which 
soon  became  a  flourishing  seaport.  From  the  country  road, 
now  High  street,  long  lanes  extended  to  the  river,  and  as  early 
as  1725  a  few  narrow  streets  were  laid  out,  intersecting  these 
lanes  at  nearly  right  angles.  The  population  between  Cottle's 
lane,  now  Brom field  street,  and  Poore's  lane,  now  Wood- 
land street,  steadily  increased  in  numbers,  and  in  1764  "the 
merchants,  traders  and  mechanicks  "  living  within  the  limits 
named  petitioned  the  Cieneral  Court  for  liberty  to  organize  a 
new  town.  This  petition,  after  a  vigorous  struggle,  was  granted, 
and  the  town  of  Newburyport  was  incorporated.  It  extended 
from  Cottle's  lane  on  the  south  to  what  is  now  Oakland  street 
on  the  north,  including  within  its  territorial  limits  about 
six  hundred  and  fort}'  acres  of  land,  and  a  population  of 
about  twenty-eight  hundred.  In  1850,  the  number  of  in- 
habitants had  increased  to  nine  thousand  five  humlred. 
Twenty-eight  hundred  more  were  added  by  the  annexation  of 
a  part  of  Newbury  in  185  i,  and  the  boundary  line  was  extended 
to  Artichoke  river  on  the  west  and  to  Plum  island  on  the  east. 
Newburyport  has  now  a  population  of  fourteen  thousand 
seven  hundred,  and  an  area  of  eighteen  square  miles,  equivalent 
to  eleven  thousand  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land  and 
water,   including  swami~)s  and  highways. 

Several  maps  and  engravings,  giving  the  location  of  streets 
and  public  buildings  in  Newburyport,  have  been  published 
since  its  incorporation,  in  1764.  A  view  of  the  town  and 
harbor,  from  the  C^ld  Hill  burying  ground,  drawn  by  Benjamin 
Johnson  in  1774,  and  a  map  drawn  by  Joseph  Somerb)'  in 
1795,  have  been  reproduced  in  a  previous  volume.' 

An  engraving,  probably  published  in  1 796,  giving  a  view  of 
the  wharves,  shipping,  and  a  part  of  the   town,   with  the  old 

'  Histdiy  of  NewburypDrt  (^Currier),  volume  I,  pages  20  and  So. 


1 6  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  rRYPORT 

wind-mill  faintly  outlined  in  the  distance,  is  exceedingly  rare 
and  of  great  historic  value.  The  name  of  the  engraver  is  un- 
known, and  no  criticism  or  commendation  oi  his  work  has  been 
discovered.  In  an  advertisement,  however,  published  in  the 
Impartial  Herald  in  March,  April,  May  and  June,  1796,  Ben- 
jamin Tucker  respectfully  informs  his  customers  that  he  has 
copies  of  an  engraving  of  the  town  of  Newburyport  for  sale 
at  his  shop  on  State  street,  "at  the  sign  of  the  Painter's 
Arms."  The  frontispiece  of  this  volume  is  a  reproduction, 
slightly  reduced  in  size,  of  one  of  these  old  engravings  now 
in  the  possession  of  the  writer. 

SHIPWRECKS    AND    LIFE    SAVING    STATIONS. 

Plum  island,  extending  nearly  nine  miles  in  a  southerly 
direction,  from  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack  to  the  mouth  of 
Ipswich  river,  is  separated  from  the  mainland  by  a  shallow 
winding  stream.  Only  a  small  portion  of  the  northern  end 
of  the  island,  including  Lighthouse  point,  is  within  the  limits 
of  Newburyport.'  The  sandy  soil  has  scanty  vegetation. 
Thin  patches  of  long,  coarse  grass,  and  a  few  bushes,  bearing 
small,  acrid  plums  which  give  to  the  island  its  name,  grow 
in  sheltered  places  on  the  western  slope  of  the  low,  fantastic 
sand  hills  that  have  been  formed  and  fashioned  by  the  action 
of  the  wind  and  the  sea. 

In  winter,  when  the  wind  is  blowing  fresh  from  the  north- 
east, and  the  air  is  thick  with  falhng  rain  or  snow,  the  roar  of 
the  waves  beating  upon  the  shore  can  be  heard  far  inland. 
Vessels  coming  on  the  coast  at  such  a  time  find  it  difficult  to 
withstand  the  fury  of  the  blast,  and  are  frequently  wrecked 
on  the  island. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  war  a  fort  was  built 
on  or  near  what  is  now  known  as  Lighthouse  point ;  and  in 
1783  two  beacons  were  erected  by  the   Newburyport  Marine 

1  See  map  on  page  20S,  volume  I,  History  of  Newburyport  (^Currier). 


SHiriVRECA'S  A/VD  LIFE  SAVING  STATIONS  17 

Society  to  mark  the  channel  and  enable  vessels  to  enter  and 
leave  the  harbor  in  safety. ' 

In  December,  1786,  a  small  sloop  was  wrecked  on  Plum 
island  during  a  severe  snow  storm.  The  caj^tain  was  saved, 
although  his  feet  and  liands  were  badly  frozen,  and  two  sea- 
men, taking  refuge  under  a  stack  of  hay,  died  from  hunger 
and  exhaustion.  Their  bodies  were  discovered  after  diligent 
search  and  brought  to  Newburyport  for  burial. 

In  1787,  two  small  houses  were  erected  by  the  Marine  So- 
ciety, and  su})i:)lied  with  cooking  utensils,  heavy  blankets,  and 
other  articles  likely  to  be  needed  by  shipwrecked  mariners, - 
and  two  lighthouses  were  built,  at  the  northern  end  of  the 
island,  by  a  committee  api)ointed  for  that  purpose  by  the  Gen- 
eral Court.-' 

The  Merrimack  llumane  Society,  organized  in  1802,  paid 
for  the  construction  of  three  houses  of  shelter,  or  relief  huts, 
in  1804,  and  directed  mariners,  by  printed  notices  and 
pamphlets,  how  to  find  them.  These  houses  were  frequently 
visited,  however,  by  malicious  or  mischievous  persons,  and 
with  great  difficulty  were  kept  in  repair  for  twenty  years. 

Early  in  October,  1805,  during  a  severe  storm,  the  sloop 
l^lue  Bird,  Capt.  Henry  Brown,  from  Boston  to  Newburyport, 
with  a  cargo  of  hardware,  books,  stationery,  woolen  goods, 
and  other  merchandise,  valued  at  one  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars, was  driven  high  on  the  beach,  near  where  the  light- 
house now  stands.  The  officers  and  crew  were  saved,  but  the 
cargo,  injured  by  exposiu^e  to  the  wind  and  weather,  was  prac- 
tically a  total  loss. 

November  2,  1837,  the  schooner  Lombard,  Robert  Blatch- 
ford,   master,   loaded   with   grindstones,    went  ashore  on  the 

.  '  '■  t_)uld  Newbury  ■■ :  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  213;  History 
of  Newbuiyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  607. 

-  "  Ould  Newbury  "  :  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  591 ;  History 
of  Newburyport  (Gushing),  page  40. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  67. 


i8  HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB I 'S!  3  POI!  T 

island  about  half  a  mile  in  a  southerly  direction  from  Light- 
house point.  The  captain  was  taken  from  the  rigging  of  the 
vessel  after  the  storm  had  abated,  but  the  crew,  consisting  of 
Pickering  Ward,  Peter  Tidd  and  William  Cole,  of  Rockport, 
N.  B.,  became  exhausted,  and  were  washed  overboard  before 
they  could  be  reached  by  boats  from  the  shore.  Many  of  the 
grindstones  were  imbedded  in  the  sand,  and  remained  there 
for  several  years,  some  of  them  being  hauled  to  Newbury, 
Newburyport,  Rowley  and  other  towns  in  Essex  county,  and 
sold  at  prices  barely  exceeding  the  cost  of  transportation. 

November  5,  1839,  the  schooner  Rebecca,  Captain  Green- 
law, from  Calais,  Maine,  for  Boston,  was  wrecked  on  the  south 
breaker.  Her  passengers  and  crew  were  taken  off  by  boats 
from  the  shore.     The  vessel  was  a  total  loss. 

December  23,  1839,  ^^e  brig  Pocahontas,  Capt.  James  G. 
Cook,  from  Cadiz  for  Newburyport,  was  wrecked  nearly  half 
a  mile  in  an  easterly  direction  from  the  Plum  Island  hotel. 
She  was  owned  by  Capt.  John  N.  Gushing,  and  carried  a  crew 
of  twelve  or  thirteen  men.  Owing  to  the  high  wind  and  heavy 
sea,  it  was  impossible  to  obtain  assistance  from  the  shore,  and 
all  on  board  perished.  The  body  of  Captain  Cook  was  recov- 
ered a  day  or  two  later.  He  was  buried  on  Friday,  December 
twenty-seventh,  from  the  residence  of  Capt.  Isaac  G.  Tappan, 
on  Orange  street.  Albert  Cook,  chief  mate,  and  seven  of  the 
crew,  whose  bodies  were  found  on  the  beach,  were  taken  to 
the  Federal  Street  meeting-house,  where  funeral  services  were 
held  Monday  afternoon,  December  thirtieth.  Prayers  were 
offered,  and  remarks  were  made  appropriate  to  the  occasion 
by  Rev.  Luther  F.  Dimmick,  Rev.  Daniel  Dana,  and  Rev. 
Randolph  Campbell.  A  long  procession  of  citizens  followed 
the  bodies  to  their  last  resting  place,  in  the  Old  Hill  burying 
ground,  while  the  church  bells  were  tolled,  and  the  ships  in 
the  harbor  displayed  their  flags  at  half-mast.' 

In  the  centre  of  the  lot  in  which  they  were  buried  the  New- 

'  See  Historic  .Storms  of  New  England,  liy  Sidney  Perley,  page  273. 


SHIPWRECKS  AND  LIFE  SAVING  STATIONS  19 

buryport  Bethel  Society  erected  a  simple  marble  monument, 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : — 

Here  lie  the  remains  of 

Seven 

of  the  unfortunate 

Crew 

of  the  Brig  Pocahontas 

which 

was  wrecked  on 

IMumb  Island 

Dec.    23,    1839. 

"  In  foreign  lands  their  humble  grave  adorned, 
By  strangers  honored  and  by  strangers  mourned." 

The  schooner  Frederic  Reed,  Henderson  Foster,  master, with 
a  cargo  of  lumber,  from  East  Machias,  Maine,  bound  to  Boston, 
was  wrecked  on  the  island,  September  30,  1844.  The  offi- 
cers, crew  and  three  female  passengers  were  rescued  with 
great  difficulty  by  boats  sent  from  Lighthouse  point. 

The  schooner  Augusta,  Captain  Leach,  from  Castine, 
Maine,  for  Boston,  went  ashore  on  the  beach  during  a  severe 
gale,  Friday  morning,  August  6,  1847.  The  crew  was  sa\ed, 
but  the  vessel  was  a  complete  wreck. 

December  3,  1849,  '^^  schooner  Nancy,  from  Wiscasset, 
Maine,  with  a  cargo  of  bricks,  went  ashore  near  the  southerly 
end  of  the  island.  The  officers  and  crew  were  drowned.  The 
bodies  of  the  captain  and  two  seamen  were  found  on  the 
beach  a  few  days  later.     The  vessel  was  a  total  loss. 

The  schooner  Argus,  of  Frankfort,  with  a  cargo  of  ham- 
mered stone,  was  wrecked  near  Emerson's  rocks,  at  the  south- 
erly end  of  the  island,  December  24,  1850.  Capt.  Allard 
Crockett  was  saved,  but  the  other  officers,  with  five  sailors, 
were  drowned,  or  died  from  exposure  to  the  bitter  cold 
weather.  Several  of  the  bodies  were  recovered,  and  buried  on 
the  twenty-eighth  from  the  First  Presbyterian  meeting-house 
on  Federal  street. 


20  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 

The  brig  Primrose,  Capt.  Samuel  Bokman,  from  Pictou,  N.S.^ 
bound  to  Boston,  with  a  cargo  of  coal,  was  driven  high  on 
the  beach  in  a  fierce  storm,  April  15,  1851/  The  captain,^ 
crew,  and  one  passenger,  nine  persons  in  all,  were  rescued 
from  their  perilous  situation  by  the  brave  and  persistent  efforts 
of  three  or  four  men,  who  came  to  their  assistance,  standing 
in  the  surf  for  nearly  three  hours,  until  a  life-line  thrown 
from  the  brig  was  caught  and  secured  to  the  shore.-  The 
vessel  remained  imbedded  in  the  sand  until  the  middle  of  July 
following,  when  her  cargo  w^as  taken  in  lighters  to  Boston,, 
and  she  was  hauled  off  into  deep  water  by  the  steam-tug  C. 
B.  Stevens,  and  towed  into  Newburyport  for  repairs. 

The  schooner  Sunbeam,  a  small  vessel  of  about  seventy  tons 
register,  with  a  cargo  of  lumber,  from  York,  Maine,  went 
ashore  on  the  north  breaker  January  8,  1858.  The  captain, 
James  Toggerson,  was  washed  overboard  and  drowned,  but 
Josiah  Johnson  of  Newburyport  and  George  Hutchings  of 
York,  seamen,  were  saved  by  boats  from  the  Salisbury  shore. 

The  schooner  E.  A.  Creed,  Capt.  William  I.  Hunt,  with  an 
excursion  party  on  board,  went  ashore  on  the  bar  July  5, 
1867,  while  attempting  to  enter  the  harbor  during  a  thunder 
storm.  The  passengers  and  crew  were  taken  off  in  boats. 
Several  days  later  the  vessel  was  floated,  and  subsequently 
repaired  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

On  the  twenty-first  of  July  following,  the  schooner  Olive 
Branch,  Captain  Lopans,  with  a  cargo  of  lumber  from  Calais, 
Maine,  for  Beverl)-,  Mass.,  was  wrecked  at  Sandy  beach,. 
Plum  island.  The  captain  and  a  small  boy  were  saved.  The 
mate  was  severely  injured,  and  died  from  the  effects  of  his 
wounds. 

'  In  the  summer  following  this  disaster  a  new  relief  hut  was  built  about  three- 
quarters  of  a  mile  northwest  of  Emerson's  rocks,  and  supplied  with  dry  fuel,  straw 
bedding,  matches,  and  lanterns.  The  hut  and  its  contents  was  placed  in  charge 
of  Capt.  J.  Small,  who  resided  on  the  westerly  side  of  the  island,  nearly  opposite 
the  beach  where  the  vessel  was  wrecked. 

^  See  Historic  Storms  of  New  England,  page  306. 


SHIPWRECKS  AND  LIFE  SAVIXG  STATIONS 


LIKE  SA\"IN(;  srA'iiox,    iSyo. 


The  first  United  States  life  saving  station  on  Plum  island 
was  built  at  Sandy  beach  in  1874.  Robert  Floyd  was  placed 
in  charge  of  the  station,  with  six  assistants,  or  surfmen,  all 
citizens  of  Newburyport.  In  December,  188 1,  the  station 
was  moved  to  the  northerly  end  of  the  island,  near  Lighthouse 
point.  In  1890,  Capt.  James  W.  Elliott  was  appointed  keeper, 
and  a  new  building  was  erected  near  the  old  one,  which  was 
remodeled  and  converted  into  a  workshop  and  storehouse. 

Thomas  J.  Maddock  has  had  charge  of  the  station  from 
July  19,  1896,  until  the  present  time.  On  the  first  day  of 
July,  1902,  the  name  Plum  Island  station  was  changed  to  the 
Newburyport  Life  Saving  station,  and  since  that  date  it  has 
been  so  designated  in  the  official  reports  issued  by  the  treas- 
ury department  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

In  1890,  it  was  considered  ad\-isable  to  establish  a  new  sta- 
tion near  the  southerly  end  of  the  island,  and  a  suitable  build- 
ing was  erected  at  Knobb's  beach.  Frank  E.  Stevens  was 
appointed  keeper,  a  position  he  still  retains.  On  the  first  day 
of  July,  1902,  the  name  Knobb's  Beach  station  was  changed 
to  Plum  Island  Life  Savini,^  station. 


HIS  TOR  ] '  OF  NE  WB I  'R  \  'FOR  T 


iyu8. 


Since  1874,  more  than  one  hundred  serious  disasters  have 
occurred  on  the  island,  and  nearly  as  many  others  of  lesser 
importance  have  been  reported  where  assistance  has  been 
rendered  and  life  and  property  saved.  The  details  of  these 
disasters  will  be  found  in  the  annual  reports  of  the  treasurv 
department,  and  in  a  table  of  casualties  recently  compiled  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  under  the  direction  of  Sumner  I.  Kimball, 
general  superintendent  of  the  United  States  Life  Saving  ser- 
vice, at  the  request  of  the  writer  of  this  sketch.  From  these 
and  other  sources  of  information  it  appears  that  the  following- 
named  vessels  were  wrecked  or  stranded  on  the  island  at 
various  dates,  beginning  with  the  year  1875. 

The  schooner  Lacon,  Captain  Kilpatrick,  from  Weehawken, 
with  a  cargo  of  coal  for  William  S.  Coffin  of  Nevvburyport, 
went  ashore  on  the  north  breaker  November  10,  1875.  The 
captain,  crew  and  part  of  the  cargo  were  saved.  The  schooner 
was  hauled  off  from  her  perilous  position  a  month  later,  and 
towed  into  Nevvburyport  for  repairs. 

On  Saturday,  March  31,  1877,  the  schooner  Flying  Fish, 
Capt.  William  Parker,  and  the  schooner  Queen  of  the  Bay, 


SHIPWRECKS  AXD  LIFE  SAVING  STATIONS 


23 


Capt.  Samuel  Short,  were  wrecked  on  the  bar.  The  officers 
and  men  reached  the  shore  in  safety,  but  the  vessels  were  a 
total  loss.  On  the  hrst  day  of  July  following,  the  schooner 
Ann  Alaria,  Captain  Robhins,  went  ashore  at  or  near  thesame 
place,  and  was  abandonctl  by  the  crew,  who  were  taken  off  in 
boats. 

November  28,  1S7S,  the  schooner  William  Carroll,  Captain 
Higgins,  with  lumber  fiom  Bangor,  Maine,  for  Salisbury, 
Mass.,  was  driven  on  the  beach  at  Salisbury  point,  nearly  op- 
posite Plum  Island  lighthouse,  during  a  violent  storm.  The 
crew  was  sa\cd,  but  the  vessel  was  destroyed  and  the  lumber 
scattered  by  the  wind  and  waves. 

June  10,  1 88 1,  the  schooner  Alice  Oakes,  from  Kennebunk, 
Maine,  with  a  cargo  of  lumber,  for  New  York,  went  ashore 
at  Essex  beach,  nearl\'  two  miles  below  Ii)swich  lighthouse. 
The  officers  and  crew  were  saved,  and  the  vessel  was  subse- 
quently towed  into  Newburyport  and  repaired. 

May  21,  1883,  the  steamer  City  Point,  Captain  Ludlow, 
with  a  cargo  of  general  merchandise  and  forty-one  passengers, 
was  wrecked  near  Emerson's  rocks.  The  passengers  and  crew 
were  saved,  but  the  vessel  and  cargo  were  lost. 

The  schooner  \'irginia,  two  hundred  and  thirty-four  tons 
register.  Captain  Burgess,  from  Boston  for  Rockport,  Mass., 
was  driven  high  on  the  beach  at  Plum  island  October  13, 
1885,  and  afterwards  condemned  by  the  underwriters  and  solt.l. 

F'ebruary  10,  1886,  the  fishing  schooner  Lizzie  H.  Haskell, 
Captain  Marshall,  went  ashore  on  the  beach,  and  was  a  total 
loss.  On  the  sixth  of  April  following,  the  schooner  Beta,  with 
a  cargo  of  wood  and  a  crew  of  six  men,  two  adult  passengers 
and  six  children,  was  wrecked  on  the  north  breaker.  One 
man  and  three  children  were  drowned.  The  vessel  was  sub- 
sequently hauled  off  and   repaired. 

The  schooner  P'ranklin.  Captain  Upham,  from  Thomaston, 
Maine,  for  New  York  City,  went  ashore  three-quarters  of  a 
mile  .south  of  the  life  saving  station  November  13,  1886, 
and  was  a  total  l(^ss. 


24 


HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE IV B I  ^R  ]  'FOR  7 


WRECK    OF    SCHOONER    CARRIE    H.    SrOFFOKl). 


The  same  clay  the  schooner  Carrie  H.  Spofford  was  wrecked 
about  one-quarter  of  a  mile  north  of  the  station.  John  D. 
Parsons,  Rev.  James  H.  Van  Buren,  John  W.  Sargent,  Philip 
H.  Creasey  and  Arthur  L.  Huse  of  Newburyport,  by  the  use 
of  the  breeches  buoy,  assisted  in  rescuing  the  captain,  crew 
and  one  passenger.  The  vessel  was  subsequently  driven  on 
the  beach,  where  she  remained  in  a  dilapidated  condition,  as 
shown  in  the  above  half-tone  print,  until  completely  destroyed 
by  the  action  of  the  wind  and  waves. 

November  3,  1887,  the  schooner  John  E.  Sanford,  loaded 
with  coal,  from  Glace  Bay,  C  B.,  for  Newburyport,  went 
ashore  on  the  north  breaker.  A  part  of  her  cargo  was  saved, 
but  the  vessel  was  a  total  loss.  December  5,  1889,  the 
schooner  Hannah  Stone  was  wrecked  near  the  same  place. 
The  officers  and  crew  were  saved  with  great  difficulty  by  men 
connected  with  the  life  saving  station. 

August  19,  1 89 1,  the  schooner  Lucy  M.  Collins,  with  a 
cargo  of  coal,  from  New  York  for  Ipswich,  was  driven  ashore 
near  the  southerly  end  of  Plum  island  ;  and  on  the  sixth  of 
December    following   the    schooner    M.  L.  Wetherell,  loaded 


SHIPWRECKS  AND  LIFE  SAVING  STATIONS 


25 


with  sand,  was  stranded  near  Lighthouse  point.  Botli  vessels 
were  a  total  loss. 

May  4,  i<S93.  the  schooner  Brave,  from  Deer  Isle,  Maine, 
was  wrecked  near  the  life  saving  station  at  Knobb's  beach. 
The  captain  and  three  men  were  drowned.  Their  bodies  were 
recovered  and  sent  to  Deer  Isle. 

June  30,  1895,  the  schooner  Mary  G.  Powers  went  ashore 
on  Plum  island.  The  vessel  was  only  slightly  damaged,  and  the 
officers  and  crew,  consisting  of  twenty-three  men,  were  saved. 
On  the  fourth  of  July  following,  the  three-masted  schooner 
Abbie  and  Eva  Hooper,  with  coal,  from  Philadelphia  for 
Amesbury,  Mass.,  was  stranded  near  the  life  saving  station. 
The  officers  and  crew  were  rescued  in  an  exhausted  condition. 
Ten  or  twelve  days  later  the  schooner  was  hauled  from  the 
beach  into  deep  water  by  the  steam-tug  "  Right  Arm  "  and 
taken  to  Boston  for  repairs.  The  half-tone  print  on  the  next 
page  gives  a  view  of  the  vessel  when  a  portion  of  her  cargo 
had  been  removed  by  steam-tugs  and  lighters  that  came  to  her 
assistance.' 

February  9,  1896,  the  schooner  Alianza,  from  Port  John- 
son, New  Jersey,  with  coal,  for  St.  John,  New  Brunswick, 
went  ashore  about  three-quarters  of  a  mile  south  of  the  New- 
buryport  Life  Saving  station.  The  vessel  was  a  total  wreck. 
P'our  of  the  crew  were  saved,  but  the  captain,  cook  and  one 
sailor  were  washed  overboard  and  drowned. 

December  23,  1899,  a  small  steamer,  Laura  Marion,  under 
the  command  of  Capt,  William  Pettingell,  from  Gloucester 
for  Newburyport,  was  swamped  by  a  heavy  sea  on  the  bar, 
while  attempting  to  enter  the  harbor.  All  hands  were  lost, 
and  only  a  few  articles  of  value  were  recovered  from  the 
wreck. 

May  25,  1902,  the  steamer  Globe,  from  Plum  Island  point, 
with  a  cargo  of  sand,  for  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  went  ashore  on 
the  bar,  but  was  hauled  off  with    the  assistance  of  the  crew 

1  Reproduced  from  a  iih()t()<;;raph  taken  by  Selwyn  C.  Reed. 


FIRE  SOCIETIES  AND  FIRE  ENGINES 


27 


Connected  with  the  Hfe  saving  station,  and  proceeded  on  her 
vo}age. 

August  15,  1904,  the  schooner  Edwina,  from  Newport 
News  to  Newburyport,  was  stranded  on  Plum  Island  beach, 
and  remained  there  ten  or  twelve  hours,  but  was  not  seriously 
injured. 

October  21,  1905,  the  schooner  Shenandoah,  about  eight 
hundred  and  forty  tons  register,  from  Philadelphia  for  New- 
buryport, with  a  cargo  of  coal,  went  ashore  about  a  mile  and 
a  half  northwest  of  the  Newburyport  Life  Saving  station, 
but  was  hauled  off  without  difficulty,  and  the  vessel  and  cargo 
saved. 

P'ebruary  3,  1906,  the  sloop  Portuna,  from  Yarmouth, 
Maine,  for  Boston,  Mass.,  was  stranded  near  the  southerly 
end  of  Plum  island.  She  was  navigated  by  two  men,  who 
were  completely  exhausted  by  hunger  and  fatigue.  They  were 
taken  to  the  Ipswich  lighthouse,  near  by,  and  provided  with 
food  and  dry  clothing.  The  sloop  remained  imbedded  in  the 
sand  for  several  days,  but  was  afterwards  floated  and  taken  to 
Boston  for  repairs. 

In  addition  to  the  above-mentioned  disasters,  a  large  num- 
ber of  small  vessels,  boats,  and  pleasure  yachts  have  been 
driven  on  the  beach  by  stress  of  weather,  and  afterwards 
floated  and  hauled  off  into  deep  water,  comparatively  unin- 
jured. The  facts  and  dates  necessary  to  make  the  list  of 
these  disasters  complete,  from  1875  to  1908,  will  be  found  in 
the  annual  reports  of  the   United  States  Life  Saving  Service. 


FIRE    SOCIETIES    AND    FIRE    ENGINES. 

Dr.  John  Sprague,  who  came  to  Newbury  previous  to  1738, 
was  a  member  of  one  of  the  societies  organized  for  the  pur- 
pose of  preventing,  if  possible,  the  destruction  of  property 
by  fire.     .V  leather  bucket,  formerly  in  his  possession,   bear- 


28 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  L  'R I ROR  T 


FIRE   BUCKET. 


ing  his  name  and  the  date  of  1746,  is  shown  in  the  half-tone 
print  on  this  page.  The  bucket  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
Miss  Jane  R.  Wood  of  Newburyport. 
Another  bucket,  an  exact  duplicate,  is 
in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Margaret 
(Andrews)  Allen  of  Madison,  Wiscon- 
sin. 

The  Dernier  Resort  Fire  Society, 
consisting  of  thirty  members,  was 
organized  as  early  as  1760.  Ralph 
Cross,  Caleb  Cross,  Lemuel  Coffin, 
Nathaniel  Knapp,  Isaac  Knapp,  John 
Mycall,  Timothy  Palmer,  Leonard 
Smith,  Abraham  Williams,  Robert 
Williams  and  others  were  members  of 
the  society.  According  to  the  rules 
and  regulations  adopted  at  that  date, 
and  afterwards  revised  and  printed,  each  member  was  required 
to  keep  at  his  residence  two  leather  buckets  and  a  knapsack 
containing  two  canvas  bags  ready  for  use  at  all  times.  Two 
•of  these  leather  buckets,  formerly  the  property  of  Ralph  Cross, 
are  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Newburyport  ^larine  Society. 
Li  December,  1775,  the  Marine  Fire  Society  was  organ- 
ized. One  of  the  articles  of  association  adopted  provided  that 
no  person  shall  be  elected  a  member  of  the  society  "  unless 
he  be  a  member  of  the  Marine  Society  of  Newburyport." 
The  second  article  reads  as  follows  : — 

Each  of  us  will  also  keep  in  good  order,  hanging  up  in  some  con- 
venient place  in  our  respective  dwellings,  two  leather  buckets,  in  which 
shall  be  two  bags,  each  bag  measuring  one  yard  and  a  half  in  length, 
and  three-quarters  of  a  yard  in  breadth,  being  hemmed  at  the  mouths, 
and  having  strong  strings  to  draw  them  close  ;  the  buckets  and  bags 
shall  be  marked  with  the  first  letter  of  the  owner's  Christian  name  and 
with  his  surname  at  length,  under  a  penalty  of  three  shillings  for  each 
■deficiencv.' 


1  Histor\-  of  the  Marine  Society  of  Newburyport,  pages  482-485. 


FINE  SOCIETIES 


29 


Moses  Brown,  Jonathan  Parsons,  Peter  LeBreton,  William 
Farris,  John  O'Brien,  Benjamin  Rogers,  Henry  Lunt,Nicholas 
Johnson,  Charles  Hodge,  David.  Coats,  William  Coombs, 
Joseph  Newman,  Michael  Hodge,  William  P.  Johnson,  Edward 
Wigglesworth,  Ebenezer  Stocker,  William  Nichols  and  others 
were  members  of  this  society.  It  was  not  dissolved  until  the 
close  of  the  year  1833,  and  perhaps  later.  Two  leather 
buckets,  formerly  the  property  of  William  Nichols,  captain 
and  part-owner  of 
the  privateer  In- 
dependence in  the 
Revolutionary  war, 
are  now  in  the 
possession  of  his 
grandson,  George 
E.  Hale  of  New- 
buryport.  A  pho- 
tograph of  these 
buckets,  taken  for 
the  illustration  of 
this  sketch,  is  re- 
produced in  the 
half-tone  print  on 
this  page. 

The  Union  F'ire 
Society  was  organ- 
ized February  28,  1783.  Benjamin  P'rothingham.  Edward 
Toppan,  William  Cross,  Daniel  Balch,  jr.,  Abraham  Jackson, 
Daniel  Cofifin,  Richard  Pike  and  other  well-known  citizens 
of  Newburyport  were  members  of  this  association.  Meetings 
were  held  usually  at  Wolfe  Tavern.  The  half-tone  print  on 
the  next  page  is  reproduced  from  an  engraving  in  the 
possession  of  the   Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 


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FIRE    BUCKKTS. 


30 


HIS  rOR  }  ■  OF  NE  WB  L  'K  YPOK  T 


The  Federal  Fire  Society  was  organized  in  1791.  At  that 
date  the  prominent  members  of  the  society  were  James 
Hodge,  Nathaniel  Knap,  jr.,  Isaac  Knap,  jr.,  Edward  Sweat, 
jr.,  Abraham  Perkins,  William  Wyer,  jr.,  David  Wood,  Joseph 
Swasey,  jr.,  and  John  Greenough. 


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EXGRAAEI)    NOTICE    OF    MEETINC;    OF    THE    UMOX    FIRE    SOCIETY. 


The  Phenix  Fire  Society  was  organized  in  1 794.  The 
names  and  residences  of  the  members  of  the  society  were 
recorded  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose,  and  afterward  printed 
in  a  small  pamphlet,'  with  the  rules  and  regulations,  from 
which  the  following  copy  is  taken  : — 


'  This  pamphlet  is  in  the  possession  of  Charles  F.  Smith. 


FIRE  SOCIETIES 


31 


NAME. 

RESIUEN'CE. 

Thomas  Morrison, 

Kent  St. 

John  Burrill, 

Olive  lane 

James  Walsh, 

ditto 

Joseph  Newmarch, 

Boardman  st. 

Thomas  Bartlet, 

ditto 

James  Potter, 

ditto 

Samuel  Hale, 

ditto 

Samuel  Hoyt, 

ditto 

Joseph  Hoyt, 

ditto 

John  Buck, 

High  St. 

John  Somerby, 

ditto 

Nathaniel  Marsh, 

ditto 

Henry  Furlong, 

ditto 

NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

Thomas  Burrill,  Winter  st. 

John  Boardman,  Washington  st. 
Stephen  Frothingham,  Market  st. 
John  B.  Titcomb,  ditto 

Obadiah  Horton,  Merrimack  st. 
Thomas  Ham,  ditto 

Ebenezer  Gunnison,  Titcomb  st. 
Thomas  M.  Clark,  Green  st. 

Angler  March,  Market  square 
Daniel  Hunnewell,  Water  st. 

Eleazer  Johnson,  ditto 

Samuel  Newman,  Federal  st. 


The  Active  Fire  Society  and  Friendly  Fire  Society  were 
probably  organized  in  1803.  They  rendered  efficient  service 
in  the  great  fire  of  181 1,  and  responded  to  a  general 
alarm  for  assistance  in  1820,  but  no  additional  facts  relating 
to  them  have  been  discovered. 

The  Agile  Fire  Society  was  organized  in  1805.  William 
Stocker,  Ebenezer  Stedman,  John  Chickering,  jr.,  Prescott 
Spalding,  Zebedee  Cook,  jr.,  William  Hooker,  Ebenezer  Hale, 
jr.,  William  P.  Johnson,  John  Rand,  John  R.  Hudson,  Hector 
Coffin  and  others  were  admitted  to  membership  in  the  society 
at  or  soon  after  the  date  of  its  organization. 

The  Mgilant  Lire  Society  was  organized  in  1810.  Daniel 
Smith,  James  Caldwell,  David  Peabody,  Alexander  Caldwell, 
jr.,  Henry  Pardee,  Eleazer  Johnson,  3d,  Joseph  P.  Towne, 
Thomas  ( )rdway,  Charles  Long  and  others  were  members  of 
the  society  at  that  date,  or  were  admitted  to  membership  a 
few  years  later. 

The  Leonidas  Fire  Society  was  organized  in  July.  181 1. 
It  was  dissolved  a  few  years  later,  and  reorganized  in  Febru- 
ary, 1820.  William  Balch,  George  Greenleaf,  William  Stone, 
Edmund  Swett,  Mark  Symons,  Stephen  Tilton,  Henry  Tit- 
comb and  others  were  members  of  the  society  at  the  last- 
named  date. 


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The  Brutus  Fire  Society  was  organized  July  19,  1824.  The 
prominent  members  of  the  society  were  John  Andrews,  Rob- 
ert Cross,  Samuel  T.  DeFord,  Nathaniel  Foster,  Thomas  Fos- 
ter, Joseph  Marc|uand,  Stephen  W.  Marston  and  Richard  S. 
Spofford.' 

FIRE    ENGINES. 

Nathan  Hale,  Enoch  Plumer,  Jonathan  Titcomb  and  others 
purchased  a  fire  engine  and  built  an  engine  house,  at  their  own 
expense,  as  early  as  1755,  for  the  protection  of  property  in  the 
town  of  Newbury. - 

In  1762,  another  company  was  organized  to  take  charge  of 
a  fire  engine  which  had  been  imported  by  Michael  Dalton  and 
others  from  London  in  the  preceding  year.  When  a  part  of 
the  tow^n  of  Newbury  was  set  off  and  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  Newburyport,  in  1764,  there  were  three  engines 
within  the  limits  of  the  new  town. 

March  23,  1764,  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  voted 
"  that  the  men  belonging  to  y*^  several  Engines  in  this  Town 
be  excus'd  from  serving  in  any  other  office  in  the  Town."^ 

The  members  of  Company  No.  One  were  John  Brett,  Enoch 
Plumer,  Eliphalet  Noyes,  Benjamin  Cole,  Somerby  Moody, 
Benjamin  Howard,  Nathaniel  Howard,  Richard  Lowell,  Joseph 
Edwards  and  Joseph  Frothingham.  The  members  of  Company 
No.  Two,  "  engine  near  Queen's  wharf,"  at  the  foot  of  Market 
street,  were  Samuel  Nowell,  Benjamin  Pike,  Obediah  Horton, 
John  Stone,  Michael  Toppan,  Isaac  Johnson,  jr.,  James  Gid- 
dings,  John  Stickney,  Wyman  Bradbury,  Samuel  Coker,  Enoch 
Pilsbury,  Richard  Kent,  Joseph  Rowell,  Benjamin  Pidgeon, 
Leonard  Smith,  Abraham  Gallashan,  Joseph  Titcomb,  Abiel 
Somerby  and  Ofifin  Boardman.    Company  No.  Three,  "  engine 

1  For  further  details  relating  to  the   Agile,    Vigilant,    Leonidas    and    Brutus  fire 
societies,  see  small  pamphlets  containing  their  rules  and  regulations. 
*  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  285  and  286. 
^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,   page  17. 


FIRE  ENGINES  33 

at  the  lower  end  of  the  town,"  was  composed  of  Gideon 
Wood  well,  Thomas  Cross,  Jonathan  Parsons,  John  Nowell, 
Joshua  Norton,  David  Whitmore,  Charles  Cook,  Jonathan 
Whitmore,  Benjamin  Knight,  Nathaniel  Hunt,  William  John- 
son, Isaac  Noyes,  Amos  Knight,  Benjamin  Gerrish,  Daniel 
Johnson,  Hezekiah  Colby,  jr.,  Joseph  Rolph,  John  Follansby, 
Jacob  Rolph  and  Francis  Hodgkins. 

March  18,  1768,  the  selectmen  were  ordered  to  provide, 
at  the  expense  of  the  town,  "  three  Fire  Hooks  with  the  ap- 
pertinances  or  Furniture  thereof,"  and  also  a  ladder  and  suit- 
able badges,  or  staffs  of  office,  for  the  use  of  the  fi rewards.' 
Subsequently  the  following  by-law  was  adopted  by  the  inhab- 
itants of  Newburyport  and  approved  by  the  court  of  general 
sessions  held  at  Salem  December  27,  1769: — 

A  Bye  Law  of  the  Town  of  NewburyPort  to  prevent  Damage  by 
Fire  in  faid  Town. 

Whereas  moft  of  the  Buildings  in  the  Town  of  Newburyport  are  of 
Wood,  and  ftand  fo  nigh  to  each  other  that  if  any  of  them  should  take 
Fire  in  a  windy  season,  ahnost  the  whole  Town  would  be  endangered  ; 
&  as  many  Houfes  have  old  &  decayed  chimnies  &  many  People  are 
carelefs  of  their  Chimnies  &  do  not  get  them  fwept  fo  often  as  the  fafety 
of  their  own  &  their  neighbours  Houfes  requires. — For  preventing 
which  Evil,  be  it  Enacted  by  the  Freeholders  &  other  Inhabitants  of  the 
Town  of  Newburyport  by  Law  qualified  to  vote  that  the  Firewards  of 
said  Town  for  the  Time  being,  or  the  major  Part  of  them  are  hereby 
authorifed  to  infpect  all  fuch  Houfes,  or  other  Places  within  faid  Town, 
wherein  they  apprehend  any  Danger  to  arife,  from  the  Want  of  Repairs 
or  not  laying  any  fecure  Foundation  for  any  Fire  Place ;  or  keeping  any 
Hay,  or  other  combustible  matter,  fo  near,  or  fo  expofed,  to  any  neigh- 
bouring Fire,  as  to  be  likely  to  be  let  on  Fire  thereby ;  or  that  there  has 
been  a  Neglect  of  fweeping  any  chimneys  fo  long  as  to  expofe  them  to 
catch  on  Fire  and  to  order  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any  fuch  Houfe  or 
Place  to  make  fuch  amendments,  alterations,  or  Repairs  in  fuch  Houses 
or  Places  as  they  fhall  think  necefsary  for  the  publick  fafety,  &  to  re- 
move fuch  Combustible  Matter  out  of  the  Hazard  of  Fire,  &  to  order 
fuch  Chimnies  as  they  find  foul  to  be  fwept :  all  to  be  done  within  fuch 
Time  after  Notice  from    said   Firewards,  as   the    said    Firewards    shall 

'  Newburj'port  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  126. 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B I '/?  YPOR  T 


think  reafonable,  &  every  owner  or  occupier  who  shall  refufe  to  admit 
the  said  Firewards,  or  the  major  part  of  them  into  fuch  House  or  Place, 
as  they  shall  think  it  necessary  to  inspect  after  having  been  informed  of 
their  Bufinefs  &  Defire,  shall  on  every  fuch  Refusal  forfeit  &  pay  the 
Sum  of  twenty  Shillings :  and  every  owner  of  any  Houfe,  who  shall  re- 
fuse or  neglect  to  make  such  Repairs,  amendments,  or  alterations  as 
shall  be  ordered  by  the  Firewards  to  be  made  in  any  Chimney  or  Foun- 
dation, or  any  Fire  Place,  for  the  space  of  ten  Days  longer  than  the 
Time  allowed  therefor  by  the  Firewards  shall  for  every  such  neglect  or 
Refufal,  forfeit  &  pay  the  sum  of  twenty  Shillings :  &  any  Occupier  of 
any  Houfe  or  Place,  who  shall  keep  any  combustible  matter  in  such 
Place  as  the  Firewards  determine  to  be  hazardous ;  or  shall  neglect  to 
have  thofe  Chimnies  swept  which  the  Firewards  determine  to  be  foul  any 
longer  than  the  Time  set  by  the  Firewards  for  removing  such  Combusti- 
bles, or  sweeping  such  Chimnies,  shall  forfeit  &  pay  for  each  offence  the 

sum  of  twenty  shillings, And  be  it  further  Enacted  that  every  Houfe 

of  two  Stories  high  which  has  four  Fire  Places  shall  be  provided  with 
one  Leather  Bucket,  fit  for,  &  to  be  ufed,  in  Cafe  of  the  breaking  out  of 
Fire ;  &  every  iuch  House  with  six  Fire  Places  shall  be  provided  with 
two  such  Bucketts  at  the  Charge  of  the  Occupant  of  such  Houfe,  within 
fix  months  from  the  first  Day  of  January  next,  &  if  any  Houfe  as  afore- 
said shall  be  occupied  by  more  than  one  Family,  the  Fire  ward  aforesaid, 
shall  determine  in  what  Proportion  the  Bucket  or  Bucketts  to  be  pro- 
vided as  aforesaid  shall  be  purchal'ed  by  the  several  occupiers  of  Houfes  ; 
&  If  any  perfon  or  Perfons,  shall  neglect  lb  to  provide,  a  Bucket  or 
Buckets  according  to  the  Tenor  &  meaning  of  this  Act  he  or  they  shall 
forfeit  &  pay  the  fum  of  ten  Shillings  for  every  such  fix  months  neglect 
as  often  as  they  shall  offend  :  provided  neverthelefs  that  If  any  perfon 
shall  be  thro"  Poverty  unable  to  purchafe  Buckets  as  aforesaid  they  may 
be  exempted  || therefrom ||  by  a  Certificate  under  the  Hands  of  the  Fire- 
wards or  the  major  Part  of  them  if  they  think  fit. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport,  held  Sep- 
tember 12,  1 77 1,  the  proposed  removal  of  the  engine  house 
at  the  foot  of  Market  street  was  vigorously  opposed  by  Tris- 
tram Dalton  and  others,  and,  after  long  debate,  defeated. 

Voted,  to  finish  the  Engine  House  near  Queen  Wharf  where  it  now 
stands  and  to  accept  of  Mr.  Tristram  Dalton  all  the  remaining  Interest 
in  the  Engine  now  in  his  Possession,  that  never  was  Subscribed  or  payed 
for,  which  he  says  is  at  least  forty  pounds  lawful   money:  which  he  re- 


FIRE  ENGINES  35 

nounces  on  Condition   tlie   said   Engine   is    kept  there,    or    near  (2ueen 
Wharf,  and  not  on  the  side  of  the  Landing  next  his  Ware  House.' 

September  17,  1781,  the  firewards  of  the  town  were  in- 
structed to  keep  the  fire  engines  in  good  order  and  condition, 
and  the  firemen  were  excused  from  drilling  with  the  militia  of 
serving  as  night  watchmen  or  jurors.- 

March  10,  1789,  the  firewards  were  requested  to  examine 
the  buildings  "where  fires  are  kept"  to  see  if  they  were  de- 
fective in  any  way  or  needed  to  be  repaired  or  rebuilt. 

[March  10,  1789]  Voted  to  accept  of  a  Fourth  fire  Engine  which 
was  purchased  by  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  Town  and  pre- 
sented to  the  Town  by  Mr  John  Mycali  and  others, — the  subscribers, — 
the  said  Engine  being  manufactured  by  Mr  Benjamin  Dearborn  of  Ports- 
mouth in  New  Hampshire. 

\'oled  that  the  Selectmen  be  requested  to  provide  a  suitable  house  for 
the  reception  of  the  Engine  and  to  place  it  as  near  to  the  Centre  of  the 
Town  as  may  be. 3 

Firemen  were  appointed  by  the  selectmen,  January  30,  1 792, 
and  January  29,  1794,  to  take  care  of  "The  First  Engine," 
"The  Fourth  Engine,"  "The  North  Engine"  and  "The 
South  Engine,"  and  keep  them  in  good  working  order.-* 

[October  6,  1794.]  X'oted  to  have  sunk  at  the  towns  expense  four 
Conduits  to  supply  water  in  case  of  fire,  provided  the  owners  of  the  land 
grant  liberty,  viz : — one  at  the  North  end  near  Mr  Mariner  Kent's  house, 
one  at  the  west  end  of  Mr.  Hoyt's  wharf,  one  in  Liberty  street  at  the 
bottom  of  Mr.  John  Greenleaf  Juns  garden,  one  in  Mr.  Cross'  dock  at 
the  bottom  of  Lime  street.5 

A  committee  was  appointed  to  sink  additional  "  conduits," 
or  cisterns,  if  necessary,   "  provided  the  whole  number  shall 

'  Xe\vbur)port  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  154. 

'■*  Newburjport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  363. 

•'  Xewburjport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  532. 

^  Newbun,port  (Selectmen's)  Records. 

*  Xewburjport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  loi;  Morning  .Star.  C\-t()ber  14, 

1794- 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB I  'R  YPOR  T 


not  exceed  twelve,"  and  the  selectmen  were  instructed  to 
purchase  another  good  fire  engine  "  and  eighteen  Leather 
Buckets  for  each  engine." 

Voted  that  all  Carpenters  and  others  who  make  use  of  axes  in  their 
business  be  requested,  in  case  of  fire,  to  take  their  axes  with  them,  which 
if  damag'd  or  lost  at  the  fire,  the  Town  will  pay  for  them.' 

Voted  that  it  be  recommended  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town,  in 
case  of  fire,  to  take  their  buckets  with  them  and  to  fill  them  with  water 
at  the  most  convenient  places  to  be  ready  when  they  come  to  the  Fire.^ 

March  i,  1805,  the  selectmen  were  authorized  by  a  special 
law  enacted  by  the  General  Court  to  add  "  not  exceeding  six 
men  "  to  each  engine  company  in  Newburyport,^  and  the  year 
following  the  town  voted  to  sell  or  repair  engine  No.  Four.'* 

[March  18,  1807.]  Voted  to  accept  of  such  ladders,  fire  hooks,  and 
other  fire  implements  as  may  be  offered  to  the  Town  by  any  of  the  fire 
societies ;  the  same  to  be  placed  under  the  care  and  direction  of  the  fire- 
wards. 5 

[March  17,  1808.]  Voted  to  purchase  a  large  fire  engine  for  the  third 
engine  company.^ 

At  a  meeting  of  the  firewards,  February  26,  1808,  the 
town  was  divided  into  four  nearly  equal  districts,  and  each  dis- 
trict placed  under  the  supervision  of  five  firewards.  The  first 
district  extended  from  the  northern  boundary  of  the  town  to 
the  centre  of  Market  street  ;  the  second  from  the  centre  of 
Market  street  to  the  centre  of  State  street ;  the  third  from 
the  centre  of  State  street  to  the  centre  of  Federal  street  ; 
and  the  fourth  from  the  centre  of  Federal  street  to  the  divid- 
ing line  between  Newburyport  and  Newbury,   on   the  south. 

'  Newburyport  Town  Records,  vohime  II,  page  loi;  Morning  Star,  October  14, 
1794. 
2  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  102. 

*  Acts  of  1 804- 1 805,  chapter  66. 

*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  335. 

*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  346. 

*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  359. 


FIRE  ENGINES  37 

The  firemen  connected  with  the  several  engine  companies 
were  directed  to  form  in  two  Hnes  at  a  fire,  one  to  pass  buck- 
ets filled  with  water  to  the  engines,  and  the  other  to  pass  the 
empty  buckets  back  to  be  refilled. 

At  that  date  there  were  five  organized  engine  companies  in 
Newburyport.  Moses  Davenport  and  Sewall  Toppan  were 
appointed  to  take  charge  of  a  new  company  April  19,  18 10.' 
Just  previous  to  the  great  fire  in  181 1  the  engine  houses 
w^ere  located  on  Merrimack  street,  between  Kent  and  Federal 
streets. 

Engine  No.  i,  at  the  bottom  of  Market  street,  John  Top- 
pan,  captain.- 

Engine  No.  2,  at  the  bottom  of  Federal  street,  Thomas 
Stan  wood,  captain. 

Engine  No.  3,  at  the  bottom  of  Kent  street,  Moses  Ed- 
wards, captain. 

Engine  No.  4,  in  Temple  street,  near  Rev.  Mr.  Milton's 
meeting  house,  Hale  Knight,  captain. 

Engine  No.  5,  in  Market  square,  Theodore  Pearson,  jr., 
captain.  3 

Engine  No.  6,  near  the  work  house  on  Federal  street, 
Moses  Kent,  captain. 

In  October,  181 1,  long  and  short  ladders,  fire  hooks,  fire 
cloths,  ropes  and  chains,  to  be  used  in  case  of  fire,  were  pro- 
vided by  the  selectmen,  and  the  town  was  divided  by  the  fire- 
wards  into  six  districts,  each  district  to  have  one  engine 
company,  with  six  firewards  in  charge  of  the  same. 

The  use  of  lighted  lamps  and  candles,  at  night,  in  work- 
shops and  stores,  ropewalks,  stables,  or  other  buildings,  "where 
hay,  straw,  or  shavings  abound,"  was  forbidden,  and  stoves 
could  not  be  used  in  any  house  or  shop  unless  placed  upon  a 

'  Records  of  the  Newbur)-port  Firewards. 

'^  This  house  was  removed,  in  1S14,  to  High  street,  near  the  hay  scales,  and  in 
1821  to  Merrimack  street,  at  the  bottom  of  Winter  street. 

^  This  building  was  removed,  in  1S21,  to  Middle  street,  and  in  1S30  to  Pleasant 
street. 


3  8  ^^S TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  C  7v'  } TOR  T 

safe  and  secure  hearth  and  connected  with  a  chimney  con- 
structed in  a  manner  acceptable  to  the  fi rewards  of  the  town.' 

A  special  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  was 
held  May  9,  18 12,  "To  determine  whether  they  will  purchase 
for  the  use  of  the  Town  a  Hose  Engine  which  will  be  exhib- 
ited near  the  Court  house  at  the  time  of  the  meeting."  After 
a  brief  discussion,  the  selectmen  were  instructed  "  to  purchase 
Mr.  Jacob  Perkins'  Hose  Engine."-  In  181 5,  this  engine  was 
located  in  Market  square,  and  in  182 1  it  was  removed  to  Mid- 
dle street. 

In  April,  18 16,  firemen  for  five  fire  companies,  each  com- 
pany consisting  of  fifteen  or  twenty  men,  were  appointed  : 
also  a  company  "of  axe  and  cloth  men,"  and  twelve  hose 
men.'^  They  and  their  successors,  under  the  direction  of  the 
firewards  of  the  town,  rendered  efficient  service  for  many 
years. 

March  5,  1830,  the  General  Court  passed  an  act  estabhsh- 
ing  a  fire  department  in  Newburyport,  and  providing  for  the 
appointment  of  a  chief  engineer  and  a  board  of  assistant  en- 
gineers, who  shall  "  have  the  same  authority  as  the  fire  war- 
dens now  have."^  At  a  town  meeting  held  on  the  tw^enty- 
fourth  of  March  following,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  make 
recommendations  relative  to  the  new  law.  At  an  adjourned 
meeting  of  the  town,  held  on  the  second  of  April,  the  com- 
mittee reported  recommending  that  the  act  be  adopted,  and 
that  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  be  appropri- 
ated "  to  carry  the  same  into  operation. "5  This  report  of  the 
committee  was  accepted  and  the  money  appropriated  for  the 
organization  of  the  department  ;  but  for  some  reason  the 
work  was  delayed  until  April,  1833. 

1  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  362. 

2  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  426.  The  Newburyport  Herald 
announced,  P'ebruary  i,  1803,  that  a  new  style  of  fire  engine  had  been  patented 
by  Mr.  Perkins  of  Newburyport  and  Allen  Pollock  of  Boston. 

^  Newburyport  (Selectmen's)  Records. 

"  Acts  of  1829- 1830,  chapter  58. 

*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  III.  page  JOi. 


FIRE  ENGINES  39 

April  2  1,  1 83 1,  the  selectmen  were  ordered  to  provide  a 
company  "for  engine  No.  4  in  Temple  street,"  and  twelve 
months  later  they  were  instructed  to  sell  the  engine  and  pur- 
chase a  new  one  "  that  will  answer  the  purpose  of  an  hydrau- 
lion  and  an  extinguisher."' 

[March  27,  1833.]  Voted  to  adopt  the  act  of  the  Legislature  passed 
March  5,  1830,  estabhshing  a  P^ire  department  in  the  Town  of  New- 
burjport.^ 

[April  10,  1833.]  \'oted  to  accept  the  organization  of  the  Fire  De- 
partment as  reported  by  the  Selectmen.3 

May  4,  1835,  the  selectmen  were  authorized  to  purchase  a 
lot  of  land  and  erect  a  building  to  accommodate  Engine  Com- 
pany No.  Five,  Hook  and  Ladder  Company  "  and  a  School 
Room,  if,  in  their  opinion,  it  is  expedient."^  Land  was  pur- 
chased on  the  easterly  side  of  Pleasant  street,  bounded  by  a 
way  twenty-four  feet  wide,  on  the  northwesterly  side,  and  by 
land  belonging  to  the  proprietors  of  the  First  Religious  Soci- 
ety in  Newburyport,  on  the  southeasterly  side,  and  a  building 
suitable  for  the  purposes  named  was  erected  there  previous  to 
March,  1836.5 

On  the  twenty-ninth  of  March,  1838,  the  selectmen  were 
instructed  to  purchase  a  new  engine  to  be  located  in  the  house 
then  occupied  by  engine  No.  Two,  at  the  foot  of  Federal 
street,^  and  March  27,  1843,  they  were  authorized  and  direct- 
ed to  build  an  engine  house  for  engine  company  No.  Six.^ 

On  the  first  day  of  June  following,  the  inhabitants  of  the 
town  voted  to  appropriate  "  for  such  objects  as  may  be  rec- 
ommended by  the  Board  of  Engineers,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Selectmen,"  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  trans- 

'  Xewbuiyport  Town  Kccorils.  vdlunie  III,  page  239. 
-  Xewburyport  Town  Records,  volume  III,  page  258. 
^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  III,  page  263. 
^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  III,  page  332. 
'"  Essex  Deeds,  book  CCLXXXVI,  leaf  4. 
^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  IV,  page  20. 
'  Xewbuiyport  Town  Records,  volume  IV,  page  146. 


40 


HIS  TOR  J '  OF  NE IVBUR  YPOR  T 


$3,928 

19 

219 

00 

194 

00 

lOI 

29 

557 

52 

$5,000 

00 

ferred  from  the  surplus  revenue  fund,'  and  March  25,  1844, 
the  selectmen  reported  that  they  had  paid  and  charged  to  the 
fire  department 

Sundry  bills  amounting  to  ...  . 

Bills  for  repairs  on  engine  house  No.  5, 

Bills  for  repairs  on  engine  house  No.  3, 

Distributed  to  firemen  for  furniture  for  engine  houses, 

Leaving  on  hand  for  new  engine  and  hose  carriage, 


All  the  power  and  authority  vested  in  the  selectmen  by  an 
act  passed  by  the  General  Court  March  5,  1830,  estabHshing 
a  fire  department  in  Newburyport,  was  transferred  to  and 
vested  in  the  mayor  and  aldermen  by  the  twelfth  section  of 
the  city  charter,  which  was  accepted  June  3,  185  i. 

An  ordinance  providing  for  the  payment  of  two  hundred 
and  twenty-five  dollars  annually  to  each  engine  company  was 
passed  by  the  city  council  June  6,  1853,  and  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  government  of  the  fire  department  were  adopted 
December  24,  1855. 

The  steam  fire  engine  "  Eon,"  built  in  Portland,  Maine,  was 
purchased  by  the  city  of  Newburyport  in  1864,  being  accepted 
by  the  city  council  in  November  of  that  year.-  A  photograph 
of  the  engine,  taken  by  the  late  Hiram  P.  Macintosh,  is 
reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page.  After 
nearly  twenty  years  of  hard  service,  the  engine  was  condemned 
and  sold,  in  1883. 

March  22,  1861,  during  a  violent  snow  storm,  the  North 
Congregational  meeting-house,  on  the  corner  of  Titcomb  and 
Pleasant  streets,  was  destroyed  by  an  incendiary  fire.  From 
1862  to  1866  much  valuable  property  in  various  parts  of  the 
city  was  burned,  and  at  midnight  on   the  eighth  of  January, 

'  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  IV,  page  164. 
*  Newburyport  Herald,  November  18,  1864. 


FIRE  ENGINES 


41 


1867,  the  Belleville  Congregational  meeting-house  was  totally 
consumed.  The  First  Parish  meeting-house  in  Newbury  was 
destroyed  January  25,  1868,  and  in  the  month  of  March  fol- 
lowing unsuccessful  attempts  were  made  to  burn  the  Harris 
Street  and  the  Congress  Street  meeting-houses  in  Newburyport. 
Alarmed  at  the  frequency  of  these  fires,  large  rewards  were 
offered  for  the  detection  of  the  incendiary,  and  several  sus- 
pected persons  were  closely  watched  by  special  officers  em- 
ployed for  that  purpose.     The  vigilance  of  these  officers  prob- 


STEAM    FIRE    ENC.INE    "EON. 


ably  induced  Leonard  Choate,  a  young  married  man,  about 
twenty-five  or  thirty  }'ears  of  age,  living  in  a  house  on  the 
northwesterly  side  of  Tyng  street,  near  Merrimack  street,  to 
leave  the  city  in  August,  1868,  and  take  up  his  residence  in 
Wright  county,  Minnesota,  where  he  was  arrested  on  the 
twentieth  of  September,  and  committed  to  jail  in  Newburyport 
six  days  later.  At  the  session  of  the  superior  court  held  in 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  in  October,  1869,  he  was  tried,   convicted, 


42 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  IV  B  URYPORT 


and  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  life/  He  was  confined  in 
the  state  prison  at  Charlestown  for  more  than  thirty  years. 
On  account  of  his  advanced  age  and  mental  condition,  he  was 
removed  a  few  years  ago  to  the  state  farm  at  Bridgewater, 
where  he  now  is. 

In  July,  1873,  steam  alarm  whistles  were  attached  to  the 
Masconomet,  Peabody,  Bartlet  and  Ocean  mills.  The  Mas- 
conomet  mill  whistle  sounded  one  blast  when  a  fire  was  dis- 
covered in  Ward  One  ;  the  Peabody  mill  whistle  two  blasts 
when  the  fire  was  in  Ward  Two  ;  the  Bartlet  mill  whistle  three 
blasts  when  the  fire  was  in  Ward  Three  ;  and  the  Ocean  mill 
whistle  five  blasts  when  the  fire  was  in  Ward  Five. 

In  1884,  the  Gamewell  Electric  P"ire  Alarm  system  was  es- 
tablished in  Newburyport,  with  fifteen  signal  boxes  between 
Harrison  street  on  the  east  and  Ashland  street  on  the  west. 
Since  that  date  the  poles  and  wires  of  the  s)stem  have  been 
extended  in  an  easterly  and  westerly  direction,  and  the  num- 
ber of  signal  boxes  increased  to  thirty-six. 

There  are  now  in  Newburyport  three  steam  fire  engines, 
two  hose  carriages  and  one  hook  and  ladder  company, 
described  as  follows. 

Engine  No.  One,  built  in  1873  by  the  Manchester  Locomo- 
tive Works,  rebuilt  in  1902  by  the  Albert  Russell  and  Sons 
Company.      Located  at  the  Central  station,  Market  sc[uare. 

Engine  No.  Two,  built  in  1867  by  the  Manchester  Locomo- 
tive Works,  rebuilt  in  1906  by  the  International  Power  Com- 
pany at  Manchester,  N.  H.  Located  at  the  corner  of  P'ederal 
and  Horton  streets. 

Engine  No.  Three,  built  in  1904  by  the  Nott  P^ire  Engine 
Company  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.     Located  on  Congress  street. 

Hose  No.  Seven.  Located  on  Merrimac  street,  between 
Forrester  and  Ashland  streets. 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  October  28,  29  and  30,  and  November  11,  1869. 


FUND  FOR   THE  BENEFIT  OF  LXJUKED  FIREMEN        43 

Hose  No.  Eight.  Located  on  Purchase  street,  near  the 
corner  of  Madison  street. 

Hook  and  Ladder  No.  One.  Located  at  the  Central  sta- 
tion, Market  square. 

ReUef  steamer,  built  by  the  Manchester  Locomotive  Works 
in  1869,  is  located  at  the  Central  station,  Market  square,  to 
be  used  in  case  of  emergency,  or  when  other  engines  are 'Un- 
dergoing repairs.  In  addition  to  hose  carriages  Nos.  Seven  and 
Eight,  each  fire  engine  is  provided  with  a  hose  wagon  fully 
equipped  and  ready  for  use. 

FUND    FOR    THE    BENEFIT    OF    INJURED    FIREMEN. 

Tke  Hale  fund  for  the  benefit  of  injured  firemen  was  estab- 
lished in  October,  1846,  and  now  amounts  to  the  sum  of  eight 
thousand  dollars.  The  income  from  this  fund  is  used  for  the 
benefit  of  members  of  the  fire  department  who  are  injured  in 
the  discharge  of  their  duties.  It  is  under  the  management 
and  control  of  the  chief  engineer  and  the  assistant  engineers  of 
the  city  of  Newburyport.'  The  following-named  persons  have 
contributed  to  this  fund  from  October,  1846,  to  April,  1907  : — 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Hale,  October  24,  1S46,  .... 

Capt.  Philip  Johnson,  April  21,  1.S52, 
Newburyport  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  June  7,  1852, 
Eastern  Railroad  Company,  January  30,  1 860, 
Newburyport  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  August  7,  1861,    . 
James  and  Sarah  Caldwell,  June  3,  1863,       .... 

Michael  Titcomb,  April  26,  1865,  ..... 

Josiah  L.  and  Joshua  Hale,  October  30.  1869, 

Moses  L.  Hale,  October  4,  1871,  ..... 

Josiah  L.  and  Joshua  Hale,  for  the  familv  of  the  late  Thomas 
Hale,  February  22,  1872,'      ...... 

Charles  H.  Coffin,   September  22,  1873,  .... 

The  Tyng  family,  October  8,  1874,        ..... 

A  friend,  November  4,  1874,  ...... 

1  In  the  report  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department  for  the  year  ending 
December  i,  1880,  the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  October  24,  1846,  by  the 
trustees  of  the  Hale  fund,  are  printed  in  full. 


100 

00 

50 

GO 

100 

GO 

-5 

OG 

200 

GG 

20 

GO 

100 

OG 

100 

00 

50 

GG 

100 

GG 

50 

GO 

10 

GG 

50 

00 

44 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB I  'R  YPOR  T 


Ocean  Steam  Mills  Co.,  November  5,  1874, 

Thurston  &  Colman,  July  12,  1875, 

Joseph  B.  Morss,  August  2,  1875, 

David  Hale,  April  24,  1877,  .... 

Stephen  Peabody,  January  8,  1879, 

Dr.  Frank  A.  Hale,  April  30,  1880, 

Estate  of  John  Osgood,  August  7,  1880, 

Mrs.  Mary  Nelson  and  Miss  Mary  E.  Nelson,  April  2, 

Richard  S.  Spofford,  September  3,  1883, 

Leonard  W.  Sargent,  in  1885,        .... 

Town  of  Georgetown,  March  17,   1886, 

John  Stone,  June,  1886,         ..... 

Estate  of  John  Currier,  jr.,  October  29,  1887, 

Entertainment  and  ball,  January  2,  1888, 

William  H.  Swasey,  May  21,  1888, 

Albert  P.  Sawyer,  June  29,  1888,  .         . 

Dr.  Francis  A.  Howe,  medical  attendance,  August  i,   1 

Entertainment  and  ball,  December  21,  1888, 

Entertainment  and  ball,  December  21,  1 88g, 

Lithoid  Manufacturing  Co.,  July  5,  1890, 

Entertainment  and  ball,  December  19,  1890, 

P.  J.  Creeden,  February  10,  1891, 

Edward  Perkins  &  Son,  December,   1891,     . 

Mrs.  H.  J.  Balch,  November  8,  1892, 

Dr.  Arthur  C.  Nason,  medical  attendance,  January  1,  i 

Mrs.  Helen  B.  Fowler,  April  16,  1907, 


1881 


888, 


906, 


50  00 

50  GO 

100  00 

50  00 

ID  GO 

12  GO 

50  00 

25  GG 

10  OG 

25  GO 

I  GO  00 

100  00 

5GG  GO 

301  GO 

50  GO 

100  00 

2G  OG 

399  00 

187  17 

100  GG 

255  5G 

25  OG 

25  GG 
lOG  00 

26  GO 
I.OGO  GO 


Other  contributions  have  been  received  at  various  dates,  but 
the  names  of  the  contributors  and  the  amounts  contributed 
have  not  been  made  pubhc. 

The  Firemen's  Sick  Benefit  Association  was  organized  in 
1 89 1,  for  the  reUef  of  members  unable  to  work  on  account  of 
serious  physical  disability."  The  fund  of  the  association,  de- 
rived from  various  sources,  now  amounts  to  nearly  five  thou- 
sand dollars.  An  annual  tax  of  one  dollar  has  been  collected 
from  members  and  the  net  proceeds  of  the  annual  firemen's 
ball,  with  contributions  from  persons  not  connected  with  the 
fire  department,  have  been  received  and  placed  to  the  credit 
of  the  fund,  as  follows  : — 


In  May,  1893,  the  association  was  reorganized  and  a  new  constitution  adopted. 


DA  y  AND  NIGHT  POLICE 


45 


Promenade  concert  and  ball,  in  1891, 
"  "         "        "     in  1892, 

"  "         "        "     in  1893, 

Mrs.  William  O.  Moseley,  in  May,  1893, 
Fiberloid  Manufacturing  Co.,  in  1895, 
Dr.  Francis  A.  Howe,  medical  attendance,  i 
John  T.  Brown,  in  1896, 
Promenade  concert  and  ball,  in  1 896, 
Alexander  D.  Brown,  in  1897, 
Promenade  concert  and  ball,  in  1 898, 
Fair  in  aid  of  the  Firemen's  Benefit  Associ? 
Edward  P.  Shaw,  in  1902, 
Dodge,  Bliss  &  Co.,  in  1903, 
William  H.  Swasey,  in  1903, 
Fair  in  aid  of  the  Association,  in  1903, 
Berry,  Dodge  &  Co.,  in  1904, 
Estate  Hannah  B.  Wood,  in  1904. 
Fiberloid  Manufacturing  Co.,  in  1904, 
Citizens"  Street  Railroad  Co.,  in  1904, 
Fair  in  aid  of  Association,  in  1904, 
Mary  A.  Emery,  in  1905, 
Edward  E.  Varina,  in  1905, 
William  H.  Swasey,  in  1905, 
Berry,  Dodge  &  Co.,  in  1905, 
Helen  B.  Fowles,  in  1905, 
Fair  in  aid  of  the  Association,  in  1905, 
Fair  in  aid  of  the  Association,  in  1906, 
Willard  W.  Dole  (for  benefit  fund),  1907, 


In  addition  to  the  above-named  contributions,  smaller  sums 
have  been  received  from  time  to  time  from  individuals  inter- 
ested in  the  work  of  the  association.  The  income  from  the 
fund  has  been  expended,  as  needed,  from  year  to  year,  for  the 
relief  of  members  suffering  from  accident  or  ill   with  disease. 


$100  00 

129  00 

200  00 

50  00 

100  00 

n  1895,   . 

15  00 

130  00 

121  00 

100  00 

180  19 

ition,  in  1902,' 

592  16 

25  00 

25  00 

50  00 

400  00 

25  00 

50  00 

250  00 

50  00 

861  16 

25  00 

25  00 

30  00 

25  00 

25  00 

■    808  33 

1,103  19 

76  00 

DAY    AND    NIGHT    POLICE, 


February  8,  1764,  Cutting  Moody,  Ralph  Cross  and  Cutting 
Bartlett  were  elected  wardens  to  supervise  and  direct  the  con- 

'  The  donations  and  bequests  from  189S  to  1902  have  not  been  officially  report- 
ed, and  are  not  included  in  the  above  list. 


46  HISTORY  OF  NEWBVRYPORT 

Stables  in  the  discharge   of  their  duties  and  assist    them  in 
maintaining  peace  and  order  in  the  community. 

In  September,  1768,  Joshua  Vickery,  a  ship-carpenter  of 
Newbury,  suspected  of  giving  the  collector  of  customs  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  vessels  engaged  in  smuggling,  was  seized 
by  a  riotous  mob  and  dragged  through  the  streets  of  New- 
buryport  in  a  cart,  with  a  rope  about  his  neck.  A  few  days 
later  the  town  voted  to  appoint  watchmen,  such  as  justices  and 
other  officers  could  appoint,  "  to  prevent  Disorders  in  the 
Night  and  other  Inconveniences.'"  During  the  following 
winter  the  streets  of  the  town  were  patroled  at  night  by  sober 
and  discreet  men,  who  served  without  pay.  In  1776,  how- 
ever, owing  to  the  turmoil  and  excitement  that  prevailed  just 
previous  to  the  declaration  of  national  independence,  it  became 
necessary  to  hire  men  to  assist  Constable  Kilborn  in  preserv- 
ing order. ^ 

In  1 78 1,  the  inhabitants  of  the  towai  were  required  to  serve 
as  night  watchmen,  in  rotation,  and  the  selectmen  were  or- 
dered, in  1782,  to  make  a  list  of  prudent  and  discreet  persons, 
and  from  that  list  the  constables  were  directed  to  select  two 
watchmen  every  night. 

October  6,  1794,  the  town  voted  to  employ  four  watchmen 
for  six  months  and  two  for  the  next  six  months  following,  "the 
selectmen  to  hire  sober,  discreet,  prudent  persons,  who  will 
faithfully  attend  to  the  business."^ 

March  17,  1795,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  look  after 
disorderly  boys  and  men  on  the  street  or  in  other  public 
places,  "  and  especially  to  attend  to  the  behavior  of  people 
on  the  approaching  fast,  and  if  possible,  by  their  advice  and 
admonitions,  prevent  their  assembling  in  the  streets,  fields,  or 
other  places  for  carrying  on  sports  of  any  kind  unsuitable  to 
the  day."'' 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  46  and  47. 
'^  Newburyport  (Selectmen's)  Records,  January  8  and  May  6,  1776. 
■'  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  loi. 
■*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  109. 


DA  Y  AND  NIGHT  POLICE 


47 


December  7,  1797,  the  town  voted  to  return  to  the  old 
method  of  providing  watchmen  by  selection  from  the  able- 
bodied  inhabitants  of  the  town,  in  rotation ;  no  one  to  be  ex- 
cused, except  for  ill  health  or  on  account  of  absence  from 
town  ;  twelve  persons  to  be  selected  and  summoned  daily  ;  the 
constable  to  attend  at  the  watch  house  and  set  the  watch  not 
later  than  ten  o'clock  P.  M.,  and  report  the  names  of  those 
who  failed  to  appear  at  the  appointed  time  or  neglected  to 
patrol  the  streets  and  lanes  of  the  town  until  sunrise.  "No 
person  hired  to  serve  as  a  substitute  shall  be  a  black  or  colored 
man,  or  under  the  age  of  eighteen."' 

[April  1 ,  1 799.]  Voted  that  the  Selectmen  be  requested  to  continue 
the  watch  as  it  now  is,  viz  :  in   rotation    till   the  alphabet  is  gone  thro.^ 

In  December,  1801,  the  following  order  was  adopted  by  the 
selectmen  : — 

Essex  ss.  To  Thomas  Somerby  one  of  the  Constables  of  the  town  of 
Newburyport  in  said  County  Greeting  : 

In  the  name  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  you  are  hereby 
authorized  &  required  to  warn  a  watch  or  ward  of  six  or  eight  persons, 
as  circumstances  shall  require,  going  thro'  the  town  in  Rotation,  Justices 
of  the  Peace,  Selectmen  &;  Ministers  of  the  Gospel  excepted,  to  patrole 
the  town  from  and  after  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening  until  sun  rising  &  so 
on  from  day  to  day  until  farther  orders,  and  you  shall  charge  the  watch 
to  see  that  all  disturbances  &  disorders  in  the  night  be  prevented  &  sup- 
pressed ;  that  they  examine  all  persons  whom  they  shall  see  walking 
abroad  after  ten  o'clock,  whom  they  shall  have  reason  to  suspect  of  any 
unlawful  intention  or  design,  of  their  business  abroad  at  such  season  & 
whither  they  are  going  &  in  case  they  give  not  reasonable  satisfaction 
therein  then  to  secure  by  imprisonment  or  otherwise  all  such  disorderly 
persons  to  be  safely  kept  until  morning  then  to  carry  them  before  one  of 
the  next  Justices  of  the  Peace  to  be  examined  &  proceeded  against  ac- 
cording to  the  nature  of  their  offences  as  is  by  Law  directed.  And  such 
Watchmen  are  hereby  directed  to  walk  the  rounds  in  &  about  the  streets, 
wharves,  lanes,  &  principal  inhabited  parts  within  the  town,  to  prevent 
any  danger  by  fire  &.  to  see    that  good   order  is    kept,   taking  particular 

'  Newburj'port  (Selectmen's)  Records. 

^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  page  200.  ' 


4  8  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPOR  T 

observation  &  inspection  of  all  houses  &  families  of  evil  fame  &  strictly 

observe  the  charge  given  by  the  Constable.     Given  under  our  hands  and 

seals  at  Newburyport,  this   eighteenth   day  of  December  one  thousand 

Eight  hundred  &  One. 

Moses  Brown  "1       c-  r   . 

T-T  T  Selectmen 

Nicholas  Johnson   !  ^ 

WM  Bartlet  r    ,,     ^^    J.    ^ 

Benj  Balch  J     ^^'^buryport 

Nicholas  Pike  )    t-    y        ^ 

-r,  „  f  Justices  of 

Bennaiah  Titcomb  >•  -;,     „       ^ 
„  T  I    t'^^  Peace. ^ 

Charles  Jackson    ) 

July  2,  1 8 17,  the  selectmen  ordered  Oilman  White,  one  of 
the  constables  of  Newburyport,  *'  to  warn  a  watch  or  ward  " 
of  not  less  than  ten  or  more  than  twenty  persons,  to  patrol 
the  town  from  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening  until  sunrise  the 
next  morning,  and  directed  him  to  select  the  men  in  alphabet- 
ical order,  beginning  with  the  first  person  named  on  the  list 
prepared  by  the  selectmen.'  At  a  meeting  held  August  19, 
1820,  it  was  "  Voted  that  if  any  [person]  refuses  or  neglects 
to  take  his  turn,  when  properly  notified,  he  shall  incur  the 
high  displeasure  of  this  town."' 

In  1840,  the  selectmen  were  authorized  to  employ  eight 
watchmen  "  to  preserve  order  and  peace  in  the  nighttime," 
and  seven  years  later  they  were  instructed  to  confer  with  the 
constables  of  the  town  in  regard  to  the  arrest  and  safe  keep- 
ing of  disorderly  persons  and  the  employment  of  special  ofifi- 
cers  for  night  service.- 

The  executive  power  of  the  selectmen  was  transferred  by 
the  eighth  section  of  the  city  charter,  accepted  and  adopted 
June  3,  1 85 1,  to  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  city  of  New- 
buryport ;  and  on  the  third  day  of  July  following  ordinances, 
establishing  a  night  watch,  and  authorizing  the  appointment 
and  prescribing  the  duties  of  the  city  marshal  and  his  assist- 
ants, were  passed,  and  remained  in  force  until  repealed  by  new 
ordinances  passed  May  20,  1 861,  and  September  6,  1869. 

'  Newburj'port  (Selectmen's)  Records. 

"  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  IV,  pages  84,  224  and  267. 


THE  CURFEW  49 

THE    CURFEW. 

In  1725,  the  Third  parish  in  Newbury  was  organized  and  a 
meeting-house  built  on  the  triangular  lot  of  land  now  known 
as  Market  square,  Newburyport.  May  23,  1727,  the  parish 
voted  to  purchase  a  bell  weighing  about  four  hundred  pounds, 
and  also  ''  Voted  that  Jonathan  Woodman  should  treat  with 
some  gentlemen  in  Boston  to  send  for  a  bell  for  said  Parish." 

[March  19,  172 7-8.]  Voted  that  the  bell  of  the  Third  Parish  be  Rung 
at  nine  of  the  clock.' 

Ambrose  Berry,  one  of  the  constables  of  the  town  of  New- 
bury, was  paid  five  pounds,  in  1730,  "for  ringing  ye  nine 
o'clock  bell."-  After  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport,  in 
1 764,  the  selectmen  were  authorized  to  employ  a  suitable  per- 
son to  attend  to  the  ringing  of  the  bell.  April  24,  1767,  they 
agreed  with  Nathaniel  Aubin,  for  one  year,  and  in  1770  paid 
James  Pettingell  two  pounds  for  twelve  months'  service  as 
bell  ringer.3 

In  1 78 1,  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  voted  that  a  bell 
be  rung  "  at  one  o'clock  in  the  Day  and  at  nine  o'clock  at 
Night  during  the  ensuing  year,"  and  a  similar  vote  was  passed 
for  several  consecutive  years. ■♦ 

March  27,  1833,  the  selectmen  were  instructed  to  have  the 
bells  rung  at  sunrise  as  well  as  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
and  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening,  and  these  instructions  were 
renewed  annually  until  1838,  when  the  ringing  of  bells  at 
sunrise  was  discontinued  during  the  winter  months. 

[March  15,  1838.]  \'oted  that  the  Bells  of  the  Federal  street  and 
Pleasant  street  churches  be  rung  at  sunrise  for  the  six  ensuing  months 
beginning  on  the  morning  of  the  first  Monday  in  April  next. 5 

'  "  Ould  Newburj':"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  432: 

2  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  250. 

3  Xe\vbur}-port  (Selectmen's)  Records. 

■*  Newburyport  Town  Records,  March,  1781,  1782,  17S3,  and  17S4. 
^  Newburj-port  Town  Records,  volume  I\',  page  14. 


50 


HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR 1  'FOR  T 


Subsequently  the  one  o'clock  bell  was  omitted,  but  the 
ringing  of  the  nine  o'clock  bell  was  continued  until  the  begin- 
ning of  the  twentieth  century. 

TOWN    CRIER. 

The  appointment  of  a  suitable  person  to  announce  the  loss 
of  property  or  the  sale  of  "  goods,  wares  and  merchandise," 
was  authorized  by  the  General  Court  more  than  a  century 
previous  to  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport. 

[June  14,  1642.]  Ordered  that  hee  who  is  to  cry  things  lost  shal 
keepe  a  booke,  wherein  hee  shall  write  downe  faithfully  all  such  things, 
wtii  the  markes,  the  p'ties  names  &  the  dayes  of  crying  it,  for  w'ch  he 
shall  have  2d  Hee  is  to  crye  at  3  severall  times :  &  this  order  is  to  be 
observed  in  every  towne.'"' 

At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  of  Boston  held  March  26, 
1666,  John  Crosse  was  appointed  "  to  be  the  Towne  cryer,  to 
be  allowed  2^  for  what  he  cryeth  att  the  meeting  house.  And 
what  he  Crye  vpp  &  downe  from  street  to  street  is  to  be  al- 
lowed 6'^."^  October  23,  1668,  the  General  Court  made 
the  following  reply  to  a  petition  presented  by  the  constable 
of  Newbury  : — 

In  ansr  to  the  peticon  of  John  Webster,  constable  of  Newbury,  hum- 
bly craving  that  his  bill  of  charge  expended  on  hue  en  crys  &c,  amount- 
ing to  thirty  six  shillings,  might  be  allowed  him  the  Court  judgeth  it 
meete  to  refer  the  bill  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Country  to  examine  & 
allow  what  he  sees  &  finds  to  be  just. 3 

In  1698,  any  person  finding  money  or  merchandise  in  the 
town  where  he  resided  was  required  by  law  to  cause  the  same 
"  to  be  cryed  by  the  constable  or  public  cryer."  If  the  value 
of  the  property  exceeded  twenty  shillings,  the  inhabitants  of 
neighboring  towns  were  to  be  notified  in  the  same  manner.  ^ 

1  Massachusetts  Colony  Records,  vohime   II,  page  14. 

^  Records  of  the  Town  of  Boston  ( 1 660-1 701),  page  30. 

^  Massachusetts  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  II,  page  406. 

■*  Province  Laws,  volume  I,  page  326. 


TOIVN  CRIER  51 

The  town  criers  in  Newbury  probabl}-  served  for  an  indefi- 
nite term  of  years,  but  no  record  of  their  appointment  has 
been  found.  They  were  evidently  licensed  like  auctioneers  or 
harbor  pilots,  and  allowed  to  serve  during  good  behavior.  In 
Boston  no  person  was  permitted  "  to  cry  any  Sort  of  Goods, 
Wares  or  Merchandise"  unless  licensed  by  the  selectmen. 

[March  9,  1724.]  \'oted  that  no  person  whatsoever  presume  to  be  a 
Comon  Cryer,  or  Cry  any  Sort  of  Goods,  Wares  or  Merchandize  Lost  or 
Found  or  Stolen  Goods,  Strays,  Pubhck  Sales  &c  within  any  of  the 
Streets,  Lanes,  Alleys,  or  Marketplace  or  places  of  the  Town  on  Penalty 
of  ten  shillings  for  every  offence.  Except  only  such  Person  or  Persons 
as  shall  be  Licensed  by  the  Selectmen.' 

A  town  crier  was  appointed  in  Newburyport  soon  after  the 
incorporation  of  the  town.  In  February,  1774,  Holland 
Shaw,  having  been  detected  in  stealing  a  shirt,  was  compelled 
to  walk  through  the  principal  streets,  preceded  by  the  town 
crier,  William  Douglass,  beating  his  brass-barreled  drum.- 

In  1824,  William  Pike  Lunt,  who  had  served  as  drummer 
in  the  Revolutionary  war,  was  licensed  to  sell  merchandise  at 
auction,  announce  the  loss  of  valuable  property,  and  give  no- 
tice of  the  finding  of  cattle,  horses,  money  or  jewelry.  He 
was  evidently  a  genial  and  popular  official,  with  some  marked 
peculiarities  and  idiosyncrasies. 

In  riding  horseback,  an  art  in  which  he  supposed  himself  to  excell,  he 
cut  a  queer  figure  from  the  brevity  of  his  legs  and  his  commanding  mih- 
tary  air.  When  marching  to  the  tap  of  his  own  drum,  he  moved  with  a 
step  which  indicated  a  conscious  importance  of  the  event  he  was  to  an- 
nounce, whether  it  was  a  lost  child  or  an  approaching  auction  sale.  He 
alwaj'S  seemed  to  imagine  that  he  possessed  peculiar  and  eminent  quali- 
fications as  an  auctioneer  for  the  sale  of  horses.  In  this  capacity  he  was 
not  unfrequently  called  upon  to  exercise  his  calling  at  the  market  place, 
and  then  was  the  moment  for  the  congregating  of  market  men  about  his 
stand  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  innocent  sport  which  inevitably  ensue'd. 
The  jolly  disi)Osition  and  cheery  countenance   of   this  light-hearted  and 

1  Records  of  the  Town  of  Boston  (  1700- 172S),  page  1S9. 
-  Ilistoiy  of  Xewbiiry  (Coffin),  page  243. 


52 


HIS  TOR  }  ■  OF  NE  WB  L  'R  \  'FOR  T 


fun-loving  little  man  was  admirably  displayed  at  his  auction  sales,  notice 
of  which  attractive  event  was  given  by  sundry  energetic  rolls  upon  his 
drum.  He  was  possessed  of  a  sharp,  clear  voice,  by  which  he  could 
make  himself  heard  over  the  entire  market-place. 

His  official  successor  was  less  prominent   in   public  affairs, 
but  served  his  townsmen  with  fidelity  for   many  years.     The 

following  notice  appeared  in 
the  Newbury  port  Herald 
March  14,  1828  : — 

Archibald  Sprague  respectfully 
informs  the  public  that  he  will  serve 
them  as  Town  Crier.  Any  person 
wanting  his  services  will  please 
apply  at  his  house  in  Lime  street. 

James  L.  Foote  held  the 
office  of  town  crier  from  1832 
to  1 848.  He  was  quite  infirm 
with  age,  and  during  the  last 
years  of  his  life  almost  totally 
blind  and  unable  to  find  his 
way  to  and  from  the  market 
place  without  assistance.  He 
lived  with  his  wife  and  several 
children  in  a  two-story  dwell- 
ing house  which  then  stood  on 
the  northeasterly  corner  of 
Temple  and  Fair  streets. 

John  Hidden  was  appointed 

town  crier  by  the  selectmen  of 

Newburyport  in  1848.     Soon 

after  the  adoption  of  the   city  charter,   in    185 1,  the  mayor 

and  aldermen  were  authorized  to  license  one  or  more  persons 

to  serve  as  common  criers. 

No  person  not  licensed  as   aforesaid  shall  presume   to  be  a  common 
crier  or  to  cry  any  sort  of  articles,    lost  or  found,    stolen   goods,  strays, 


ENOCH    C.    FLANDERS. 


OLD  DWELLING  HOUSES  AND  BATHING  HOUSES         53 

public  sales,  or  other  things,  in  any  of  the  streets  or  public  places  of  the 
city." 

Mr.  Hidden  was  granted  a  license  by  the  mayor  and  alder- 
men, and  held  the  office  until  his  death.  March  19,  1872. 

Enoch  C.  Flanders  was  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy  occa- 
sioned by  the  death  of  Mr.  Hidden.  Although  lame  and 
otherwise  disabled  by  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  he  was  active  and 
energetic,  and  received  the  support  of  many  influential  friends. 
He  has  continued  to  serve  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  as 
common  crier  from  June,  1872,  until  the  present  time.  His 
familiar  form  and  features  are  reproduced  in  the  half-tone 
print  on  the  opposite  page. 

OLD    DWELLING    HOUSES    AND    BATHING    HOUSES. 

Many  of  the  old  houses  now  standing  in  Newburyport  have 
been  described  in  a  previous  volume.-  Some  additional  facts 
relating  to  them  will  be  found  in  the  Reminiscences  of  a  Non- 
agenarian,^  and  in  a  series  of  historical  sketches  recently  pub- 
lished by  Oliver  B.  Merrill.-* 

Other  houses  of  earlier  or  later  construction,  formerly  oc- 
cupied by  men  more  or  less  conspicuous  in  the  history  of  the 
town,  are  briefly  described  in  the  following  pages. 

The  Titcomb  house,  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  Green 
street,  near  Merrimack  street,  was  probably  erected  more  than 
a  century  ago.  Gyles  Cromwell,  or  Cromlon,  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Newbury.  At  the  laying  out  of  the  new  town, 
in  1642,  he  was  granted  a  house  lot  on  Fish,  now  State  street , 

'  An  ordinance  concerning  common  criers,  passed  August  iS,  1S51. 

°  "  Ould  Newburj' :  "      Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches. 

•^  Reminiscences  of  a  Nonagenarian,  pages  229-239. 

■*  Newburyport  Daily  News,  May  to  September,  1906,  January-  jj  to  February 
29,  1908. 

'  "  In  consideration  of  Clyles  Cromlon,  alias  Cromwell,  his  resigning  up  into  the 
Towns  hands  an  house  lott  at  old  Towne  and  an  acre  more  where  his  house  stood 
which  he  doth  by  these  presents,  they  Granted  him  an  acre  in  the  Little  field 
and  an  house  Lott  of  four  acres  on  fish  street  to  enjoy  to  him  and  his  heyrs  for- 
ever."— Newbury  (^Proprietors')  Records^  volume  I,  page  ^4. 


54 


HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE IV B I  ^R  i  -POR  T 


and  subsequently  purchased  several  acres  of  land  adjoining, 
extending  to  Ordway's  lane,  now -Market  street,  Newburyport. 
Argentine,  daughter  of  Gyles  Cromwell,  and  wife  of  Benjamin 
Cram  of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  sold,  March  8,  1674-5,  two  years 
after  the  death  of  her  father,  half  an  acre  of  this  land  to 
Richard  Dole,  who  conveyed  it,  July  15,  1695,  to  Benaiah 
Titcomb.'  A  two-story  dwelling  house  was  erected  on  this 
land  soon  after  the  last-named  date,  which  subsequently 
became  the  property  of  Enoch,  son  of  Benaiah  Titcomb.- 

When  a  portion  of  the  town  of  Newbury  was  set  off  and 
incorporated  by  the  name  of  Newburyport,  in  1764,  this  house 
was  within  the  limits  of  the  new  town.  It  remained  in  the 
possession  of  Enoch  Titcomb  until  the  day  of  his  death.  In 
the  division  of  his  estate,  December  9,  1782,  it  was  assigned 
to  Enoch  Titcomb,  jr.,  son  of  Enoch  and  Elizabeth  (Moody) 
Titcomb. 

Enoch  Titcomb,  jr.,  was  a  blacksmith.  He  died  February 
10,  1799,  aged  sev^enty-seven.  In  the  inventory  of  his  estate, 
returned  to  the  probate  court  on  the  ninth  of  May  following, 
the  land  on  the  corner  of  Merrimack  and  Green  streets,  with 
the  mansion  house  and  other  buildings  thereon,  was  appraised 
at  three  thousand  dollars.  November  i,  1800,  this  house  and 
land  was  set  off  and  conveyed  by  deed  to  Sarah,  sister  of 
Enoch  Titcomb,  jr.,  and  "also  three  floor  pews  numbered 
twenty-two,  twenty-five  and  fifty-six,  and  two  gallery  pews 
numbered  forty-seven  and  thirteen  in  the  meeting  house 
where  the  Rev.  Mr.  Boddily  officiates."^ 

January  23,  1801,  Sarah  Titcomb,  widow,  sold  the  house 
and  land  to  Moses  Brown.  He  built  the  brick  storehouse  now 
standing  on  the  northeasterly  side  of  the  old  mansion  house 
at  the  corner  of  Merrimack  and  Green  streets.  He  died 
February  9,  1827,  and  by  the  terms  of  his  will    the  mansion 

1  "  Ould   Newbury:"    Historical  and  Biographical  sketches,   pages  144  and  145. 
■^  See  will  of  Benaiah  Titcomb,  proved  March  5,    1728-9.      Enoch    Titcomb  was 
born  April  i,  1695.      He  married  Elizabeth  Moody  January  I,  1719. 
•'  Essex  Deeds,  book  16S,  leaves  196  and  198. 


"iiiiy,i'i 


5  6  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IV B  CRY  PORT 

house,  with  other  real  and  personal  estate,  became  the  prop- 
erty of  his  granddaughter,  Sarah  White  Bannister,  who  mar- 
ried Dr.  Ebenezer  Hale  June  13,  1844.  She  died  February 
29,  1880,  leaving  no  children,  and  the  house,  with  the  brick 
building  adjoining,  was  assigned,  in  the  division  of  the  estate, 
to  the  heirs  of  Samuel  Brown,  who  still  retain  possession  of 
the  property.' 

A  photographic  view  of  the  house,  now  more  than  two 
centuries  old,  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  pre- 
ceding page. 


MOUNT    RURAL. 

Archelaus,  sometimes  called  Hercules,  Woodman  came 
from  Malford,  England,  in  the  ship  James,  in  1635.^  Reset- 
tled in  Newbury,  and  was  granted  about  four  acres  of  land  on 
the  Ouascacunquen,  now  Parker,  river,  "  bounded  by  High 
street  on  the  south,  Mr.  Rawson  on  the  north,  Henry  Lunt 
on  the  west,  &  Nicholas  Holt  on  the  east."^ 

When  the  new  town  was  laid  out,  in  1645,  he  was  granted, 
or  acquired  by  purchase,  ten  or  twelve  acres  of  land  on  the 
southwesterly  corner  of  the  country  road,  now  High  street, 
and  the  lane  **  going  down  to  the  Aspen  Swamp,"  now  Top- 
pan  street.  On  this  land  he  built  a  dwelling  house  that  he 
owned  and  occupied  for  more  than  fifty  years.  In  considera- 
tion of  the  payment  of  a  certam  sum  annually  for  the  sup- 
port of  himself  and  wife,  he  conveyed  all  his  property,  January 
6,  1698-9,  to  his  grandson,  Archelaus  Adams. ^ 

In  the  will  of  Archelaus  Adams,  dated  May  24,  1753,  and 
proved  September  twenty-seventh  following  he  gave  to  his  sons 
John,  Samuel  and  Archelaus,   "  and  to  Mary  and  Elizabeth, 

'  Essex  (Probate)  Records,  book  406,  leaves  156-164. 
'  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  32. 

^  "  Ould  Newbury : "    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page   14;   Newbury 
(Proprietors')  Records,  pages  56-58. 
*  Essex  Deeds,  book  14,  leaf  57. 


MOUNT  RURAL 


57 


daughters  of  his  son  Stephen  Adams,  deceased,"  all  his  real 
estate  not  otherwise  disposed  of. 

January  20,  1756,  Jeremiah  Pearson,  jr.,  married  Mary, 
widow  of  Stephen  Adams,"  and  subsequently  purchased  the 
land  on  the  southwesterly  corner  of  the  Country  road  and 
Toppan's  lane,  with  the  buildings  thereon.-  He  sold  the 
property  to  Jacob  Toppan  August  24,  1764.^ 

July  25,  1769,  Elizabeth  Toppan,  widow  and  administratrix 
of  the  estate  of  Jacob  Toppan,  conveyed  the  above-described 
dwelling  house  and  land  to  Daniel  Farnham,  who  retained 
possession  of  it  until  his  death.  May  18,  i'jy6^ 

In  the  settlement  of  Mr.  Farnham's  estate,  the  land  on  the 
corner  of  High  street  and  Toppan's  lane  was  set  off,  April 
24,  1787,  to  his  only  son  William,  and  to  his  daughters  Sibyll, 
who  married  Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer,  Hannah,  who  married  Rev. 
Ezra  Weld,  Katharine,  who  married  Capt.  John  Hay,  and 
Dorothy,  who  married  Josiah  Smith.  Subsequently,  the  above- 
named  children  of  Daniel  Farnham  conveyed  the  property 
to  Josiah  Smith,  who  probably  gave  it  the  name  of  "■  Mount 
Rural,"  after  taking  the  old  mansion  house  down  and  building 
the  one  now  standing  there.5 

At  that  date,  Mr.  Smith  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pur- 
suits, but  at  the  date  of  his  marriage  he  was  a  physician.*^ 
His  wife  died  September  14,  1801  ;  and,  June  12,  1804,  he 
married  Mary  Plummer  of  Newburyport.  Sibyll  Sawyer 
Smith,  a  daughter  by  his  wife  Dorothy,  married  Alexander 
Richards  January  9,  1812,  and  Caroline  Smith,  another 
daughter,  married  Capt.  Moses  Emery  December  15,  18 14. 

Mr.  Smith  was  a  member  of  the   committee  appointed  to 

'  Essex  Antiquarian,  volume  II,  page  90. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  112,  leaf  237. 
Essex  Deeds,  book  119,  leaf  36. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  126,  leaf  204. 

'"  Essex  Deeds,  book  161,  leaf  139;  book  166,  leaf  164;  book  168,  leaves  264 
and  299. 

*  See  advertisements  in  the  Morning  Star,  Impartial  Herald  and  other  newspa- 
pers of  that  date;  and  Newburyport  (Intentions  of  Marriage)  Records,  Sej  tember 
14,  1782. 


5  8  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B I  'R  YPOR  T 

receive  President  Monroe  when  he  vdsited  Newburyport  in 
July,  1817.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  committee  ap- 
pointed to  receive  General  LaFayette  in  August,  1824.'  He 
died  September  9,  1828,  and,  by  his  will  proved  on  the  thir- 
tieth day  of  that  month,  he  gave  to  his  granddaughters, 
Sibyll,  Ellen,  and  Mary  Leonard  Richards,  and  Caroline 
Emery,  each  one-fourth  of  his  real  estate. 

May  23,  1833,  "the  residence  of  the  late  Dr.  Josiah 
Smith  "  was  sold,  by  order  of  the  probate  court,  at  auction, 
to  Joseph  Johnson,  for  the  sum  of  five  thousand,  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty  dollars."  In  1836,  the  house  was  occupied  by 
Aaron  Dow,  a  botanical  physician,  whose  theory  and  practice 
of  medicine  was  severely  criticised  by  some  of  his  fellow 
practitioners. 3 

October  6,  1846,  Mr.  Johnson  sold  to  Dr.  Ebenezer  Hale, 
'■'■  all  that  place  known  by  the  name  of  Mount  Rural,  on  the 
corner  of  High  street  and  Toppan's  lane,  with  all  the  build- 
ings thereon."'' 

Doctor  Hale  died  August  2,  1847,  leaving  a  widow,  Sarah 
White  (Bannister)  Hale,  who  retained  possession  of  the  house 
and  land  until  her  death,  February  29,  1880.  In  her  will, 
proved  on  the  twelfth  day  of  April  following,  she  gave  the 
property  to  Capt.  Joshua  Hale,  brother  of  her  late  husband, 
who  by  his  will,  proved  May  28,  1894,  gave  it  to  his  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Alice  L.  Atkinson,  the  present  owner. 

HOUSE  AND  SHOP  AT  CORNER  OF  SUMMER  AND  HIGH  STREETS. 

August  12,  1 76 1,  Daniel  Bayley  bought  of  Moses  Ordway 
a  lot  of  land  in  Newbury,  bounded  southwesterly  by  High 
street,  northwesterly  by  land  of  Caleb  Stickney,  northeasterly 
by  land  of  Reuben  Mace  and  southeasterly  by  a  way,  now 

1  Histoiy  of  Newburj^port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  415  and  416. 

*  Newburj'port  Herald,  May  24,  1833;  Essex  Deeds,  book  278,  leaves  90  and  91. 
3  See  communication  printed  in  the  Newbuiyport  Herald  April  21,  1836. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  373,  leaf  211,  and  plan  of  the  estate  filed  with  record  of  the 
<ieed. 


THE   TABERNACLE  IN  TEMPLE  STREET 


59 


Summer  street.'  On  this  lot  of  land  Mr.  Bayley  erected  a 
shop,  where  he  made  and  sold  earthen  ware.  When  New- 
buryport  was  incorporated,  in  1764,  the  land,  with  the  build- 
ings thereon,  was  within  the  limits  of  the  new  town.  In  a 
mortgage  deed  to  Daniel  Farnham,  dated  May  ri,  1764,  the 
property  is  described  as  follows  : — 

A  certain  dwelling  house  and  Potter's  shop  and  Kiln  adjoining  and  the 
Stone  and  floor  for  Grinding  the  Clay,  the  Wheels,  Irons  &  Utensils  to 
the  Potter's  business  belonging  and  in  said  Shop  together  with  about  ten 
rods  of  land  on  which  the  House,  Shop  &c  are  Erected  and  Situated 
near  Saint  Paul's  Church  in  Newburyport.- 

In  addition  to  his  skill  as  a  potter  Mr.  Bayley  had  consid- 
erable musical  abilit}'.  He  published  and  sold,  from  1764  to 
1 784,  a  great  variety  of  singing  books. ^  He  died  previous  to 
March  27,  1792  ;  and  in  the  settlement  of  his  estate  the 
dwelling  house,  shop  and  land  became  the  property  of  his 
sons,   Daniel  and  William  Bayley.^ 

THE    TABERNACLE    IN    TEMPLE    STREET, 

November  23,  1774,  Benjamin  Balch  bought  of  Isaac 
Walker  and  Timothy  Dexter  land  on  the  southwesterly  side 
of  Temple  street, 5  and  erected  a  building  called  the  Assembly 
house,  where  social  entertainments  and  dancing  parties  were 
held  for  many  years.  October  28,  1779,  Capt.  Samuel  New- 
hall  bought  this  property,  "  with  all  appurtenances  thereunto 
belonging,"*'  and,  January  16,  1783,  he  sold  to  John  Mycall 
of  Newburyport  "a  certain  building  situate  in  Temple  street 
in  said  Newburyport  known  by  the  name  of  the  Assembly 
house,  together  with  the  land  on  which  said  house  now  stands."' 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  iii,  leaf  177. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  iii,  leaf  266;  and  book  126,  leaf  26. 

^  History  of  Newburj-port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  474-480. 

''  Essex  (Probate)  Records,  book  365,  leaf  410. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  133,  leaf  274. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  138,  leaf    46. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  140,  leaf    94. 


6o  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB I  'R  YPOR  T 

Mr.  Mycall  was  for  nearly  twenty  years  editor  and  proprie- 
tor of  the  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  and  the 
publisher  of  many  books,  some  of  which  were  evidently  print- 
ed in  Temple  street  for  booksellers  in  Boston  and  elsewhere.' 
In  1794  or  1795,  he  retired  from  business,  and  removed  to 
Harvard,  in  Worcester  county.  May  6,  1 799,  he  sold  to  John 
O'Brien,  David  Cofifin,  Benjamin  Wyatt,  Richard  Pike  and 
Nehemiah  Haskell  a  building  "  known  formerly  by  the  name 
of  the  Assembly  house,  now  by  the  name  of  the  Printing 
Office,"  with  the  land  under  and  adjoining  the  same.- 

A  few  years  later  this  building  was  used  as  a  place  of  pub- 
lic worship  by  the  members  of  the  First  Baptist  Society,  Rev. 
John  Peak,  minister,  and  was  then  known  as  the  "  Taberna- 
cle." April  14,  1815,  the  firewards  of  the  town  reported  that 
it  was  unsafe,  and  requested  the  selectmen  to  have  it  removed. 
They  reported  on  the  sixth  of  November  following  that  the 
owners  of  the  building  had  taken  it  down. 

HOUSE    ON    THE    NORTHWEST    CORNER     OF     BROWN     AND      HIGH 

STREETS. 

June  6,  1803,  Ebenezer  Wheelwright  of  Newbury  sold  to 
Enoch  Thurston  of  Newburyport  a  lot  of  land  on  what  is  now 
the  northwesterly  corner  of  Brown  and  High  streets. ^  Sub- 
sequently, Moses  Brown,  merchant,  purchased  a  portion  of 
this  land  and  laid  out  a  way,  three  rods  wide,  from  High  street 
southwesterly  to  land  owned  by  himself  and  John  Greenleaf, 
as  stated  in  the  following  conveyance  recorded  in  the  registry 
of  deeds  at  Salem  : — 

Whereas  I  the  said  Moses  Brown  Marchant  and  John  Greenleaf  of 
Newburyport  gentleman,  mutually  agreed  for  our  benefit  and  convenience 
to  lay  out  a  way  of  four  rods  wide  leading  from  High  street  in  Newbury 
in  said  County  of  Essex,  nearly  at  right  angles  with  said  High  street  and 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  484-492. 
"^  Essex  Deeds,  book  165,  leaf  43. 
•*  Essex  Deeds,  book  171,  leaf  265. 


no  USE  ON  CORNER  OE  BROWN  AND  HIGH  STREETS       61 

running  southwesterly  by  lands  of  said  Greenleaf,  myself  and  Enoch 
Thurston  late  of  said  Newburyport,  joiner  deceased  and  for  the  purpose 
of  laying  out  said  way  I  purchased  of  said  Enoch  Thurston  a  piece  or 
strip  of  land  of  about  three  rods  in  width  and  about  sixteen  and  a  half 
rods  in  length  to  be  laid  down  as  a  way  as  may  appear  by  the  deed  of 
the  said  Thurston  bearing  date  Nov.  9,  1803,  duly  executed  and  recorded, 
and  it  being  found  that  a  large  dwelling  house  which  said  Thurston  was 
building  stood  partly  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  said  strip  of  land,  con- 
veyed as  aforesaid,  and  whereas  for  the  accommodation  of  said  Thurston 
in  his  life  time  I  agreed  with  him,  with  consent  of  said  Greenleaf  that 
said  way  might  be  only  about  three  rods  in  width,  and  that  I  would  release 
to  him  the  said  Thurston  part  of  the  said  land  which  he  had  conveyed  to 
me  as  aforesaid  :  Now  therefore  to  carry  said  agreement  into  effect  Know 
ye  that  I  the  said  Moses  Brown  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the  within 
premises  and  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  nineteen  dollars  and  fiftv 
cents  already  paid  me  by  John  Thurston  of  Newburyport  do  release  and 
quit  claim  to  the  said  Thurston  for  the  benefit  of  the  estate  of  Enoch 
Thurston  part  of  said  piece  of  land  beginning  at  the  easterly  corner  of  the 
late  Enoch  Thurston's  land  on  High  street,  thence  by  said  street  south- 
easterly one  rod  to  said  three  rod  way,  thence  by  said  way  southwesterly 
sixteen  rod  two  feet  to  my  own  land,  thence  northwesterly  by  my  own 
land  one  rod  to  land  of  said  Enoch  Thurston,  thence  by  land  of  said 
Thurston  to  first  mentioned  bounds,  it  being  about  one  third  part  of  the 
land  conveyed  to  me  aforesaid.' 

September  20,  1805,  John  Thurston  of  Newbury  sold  the 
land  on  the  corner  of  High  and  Brown  streets  to  ]\rartha 
Thurston  "  for  the  benefit  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Enoch 
Thurston."-  ( )n  the  fifteenth  of  November  following,  Martha 
Thurston,  widow  and  administratri.x  of  the  estate  of  Enoch 
Thurston,  conveyed  the  above-described  land,  with  the  build- 
ings thereon,  to  Samuel  Newman  of  Newburyport, ^  and  on 
the  second  of  December  Edward  St.  Loe  Livermore  purchased 
the  land  of  Mr.  Newman,  "  with  materials  for  finishing  the 
buildings  thereon."-*  Mr.  Livermore  was  a  prominent  lawyer 
in  Newburyport  at  that  date,  and  was  afterwards  a  member  of 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  176,  leaf  J15. 
2  Essex  Deeds,  book  177,  leaf  98. 
^  Essex  Deeds,  book  178,  leaf  45. 
''  Essex  Deeds,  book  177,  leaf  93. 


62  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WBURYPOR  T 

congress  from  the  Fourth  ^Middle  district.  He  employed 
carpenters  to  complete  the  house,  which  he  owned  and  occu- 
pied until  he  removed  to  Boston,  in  April,  1 8 1 1 ,  when  he 
conveyed  the  property  to  Robert  Foster.'  June  21,  181 3, 
John  Dean  purchased  the  house  and  land,  "  being  the  prem- 
ises purchased  by  the  said  Foster  of  Edward  St.  Loe  Liver- 
more,  including  one-half  of  the  well  and  pump  and  pump  house 
covering  the  same."'  Mr.  Dean  sold  the  property  to  George 
F.Pearson  October  6,  1834;-'  and  July  18,  1838,  it  came 
into  the  possession  of  Micajah  Lunt.-*  Captain  Lunt  owned 
and  occupied  the  house  until  his  death,  January  8,  1874.  In 
his  will,  proved  on  the  twentieth  of  January  following,  the 
house  and  land,  after  the  decease  of  his  wife,  was  devised  to 
his  son,  Edmund  Sydney  Lunt,  and  to  his  daughter,  Mary 
Coffin  Lunt.  March  21,  1874,  Edmund  Sydney  Lunt  con- 
veyed one-undivided-half  of  the  property  to  his  sister,  Mary 
Coffin  Lunt. 5  She  subsequently  married  Col.  Edward  O. 
Shepard,  now  deceased,  and  still  owns  and  occupies  the  house. 

HOYT  HOUSE  AT  CORNER  OF  JOHNSON  AND  HIGH  STREETS. 

Joseph  Hoyt,  who  died  previous  to  March  20,  1780,  was 
the  owner  of  about  thirteen  acres  of  land  on  the  southwest- 
erly side  of  High  street,  near  what  is  now  the  corner  of 
Johnson  street,  and  also  of  two  dwelling  houses  on  Queen, 
now  Market,  street.''  After  his  death,  the  land  on  High 
street,  with  the  houses  on  Queen  street,  became  the  property 
of  his  widow  and  children.  ^  May  19,  1806,  William  Hoyt 
purchased  about  four  acres  of  land,  which  had  been  "  set  off 
to  Ehzabeth  Hoyt  as  a  part  of  her  share  in  the  estate  of  her 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  194,  leaf     36. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  202,  leaf  39. 
•*  Essex  Deeds,  book  276,  leaf  292. 
■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  307,  leaf  220. 
5  Essex  Deeds,  book  500,  leaf  170. 

*  Essex  (Probate)  Records,  book  356,   leaf  94. 

''  Essex  Deeds,  book  158,  leaf  105;  and  book  165,  leaf  81. 


I/OrSE  ON  COKXEK^OF  JOHASON  AjVD  HIGH  STREETS       63 

father,  Joseph  Hoyt,  deceased,"'  and  erected  thereon  the 
three-story  dweUing  house  now  standing  on  the  southwesterly 
corner  of  High  and  Johnson  streets. 

In  18 12,  Capt.  W'ilham  Hoyt  became  involved  in  financial 
difficulties,  and  made  an  assignment  of  his  property  to  Wil- 
liam W'oart  and  Orlando  B.  Merrill  of  Newbury,  who  con- 
veyed the  house,  with  about  sixty-three  rods  of  land  under 
and  adjoining  the  same,  to  David  Stickney  of  Newburyport 
April  26,  1813/  Captain  Stickney  died  in  February,  1820, 
leaving  a  widow  and  four  children,  the  oldest  ten,  and  the 
youngest  five  years  of  age. 

In  1826,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  David  Stickney,  married  Rev. 
Henry  C.  Wright,  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  church  and  soci- 
ety in  West  Newbury.  April  6,  1832,  Henry  C.  Wright, 
guardian  of  Elizabeth  Le  Breton  Stickney,  Hannah  Lee  Stick- 
ney, Peter  Le  Breton  Stickney  and  Mary  Thurston  Stickney, 
minor  children  of  David  Stickney,  sold  to  Amos  Noyes  the 
land  on  the  corner  of  High  street  and  Stickney's  lane,  or  the 
way  to  Common  pasture,  now  Johnson  street,  with  the  buildings 
thereon.^ 

Joseph  W.  Hale,  of  Bangor,  Maine,  purchased  the  property 
July  20,  1835,  and  sold  it,  October  17,  1836,  to  Henry  W. 
Kinsman. -t  It  remained  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Kinsman 
until  his  death,  December  4,  1859. 

Clara  (Kinsman)  Bradford,  Mary  McKinstry  Howe  and 
Louisa  H.  Kinsman,  "daughters  of  Henry  W.  Kinsman,  de- 
ceased," conveyed  the  house  and  land  to  Capt.  George  L. 
Rogers  in  1862.5 

Lucy  E.  R.  Hill,  Orythia  W.  Knapp  and  Alice  Rogers, 
"  heirs  at  law  of  the  late  George  L.  Rogers,"  sold  the  prop- 
erty to  Emily  Harwood  of  Boston  October  20,  1873.'' 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  179,  leaf  ill  ;  also  book  176,  leaf  70. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  .:oo,  leaf  268. 

•*  Essex  Deeds,  book  264,  leaf  no;  and  book  J65,  leaf  122. 

■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  281,  leaf  186;  and  book  293,  leaf  234. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  642,  leaves  296  and  297. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  892,  leaf  54.  Capt.  George  L.  Rogers  died  March  28,  1872. 


6  4  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  IV  B  [  'R  1  'FOR  T 

Cyrus  p.  Stevens  of  Newburyport  bought  the  house,  "  with 
about  sixty-three  rods  of  land  under  and  adjoining  the  same," 
October  2,  1877,'  and  sold  it,  August  6,  1897,  to  the  present 
owner  and  occupant,  Frank  F.  Morrill. - 

HOUSES    ON    HIGH    STREET,    OPPOSITE    KENT    STREET. 

William  Hoyt  and  his  assignees,  William  Woart  and  Or- 
lando B.  Merrill,  conveyed  to  Thomas  Gary,  merchant,  by 
deed  dated  April  26,  18 13,  several  lots  of  land  on  the  south- 
westerly side  of  High  street,  opposite  Kent  street,  now  owned 
by  William  W.  Goodwin  and  the  estate  of  Rev.  John  W. 
Dodge.  3 

In  his  will,  dated  June  23,  18 18,  proved  July  4,  1820, 
Thomas  Gary  gave  the  land  on  High  street,  with  the  residue 
of  his  estate,  after  the  payment  of  certain  legacies,  to  the 
president  and  fellows  of  Harvard  college,  the  income  to  be 
used  to  assist  "  young  men  of  competent  talents,  pure  morals 
and  piety,  in  preparing  themselves  for  the  Ghristian  ministry." 

Ephraim  W^  Allen,  proprietor  and  publisher  of  the  New- 
buryport Herald,  bought  the  land  May  4,  1831,  and  sold  it, 
October  23,  1843,  to  Gharles  -W.  Storey  and  Thomas  W. 
Burnham.-t 

Mr.  Story  died  January  8,  1845,  "^^^  "^  partition  of  the  land 
was  made  by  a  committee  appointed  by  the  probate  court  on 
the  twenty-third  of  October  following.  September  i,  1862, 
William  W.  Goodwin  purchased  that  portion  of  the  land  set 
off  and  assigned  to  Thomas  W.  Burnham,  and  built  the  house 
now  standing  there  and  numbered  213  High  street. ^ 

November  8,  1859,  John  J.  Gurrier  bought  of  Lydia  M. 
and  Garoline  A.  W.  Storey,  daughters  of  Gharles  W.  Storey, 
the  land  set  off  and  assigned  to  the  said   Gharles  W.  Storey, 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  984,  leaf  264. 

-  Essex  Deeds,  book  1522,  page  469. 

•*  Essex  Deeds,  book  201,  leaf  129. 

■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  339,  leaves  293  and  297. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  642.  leaf  13. 


HOi'SES  OX  GKEE.V  AND  HARRIS  STREETS  65 

and  sold  it.  July  23,  1887,  to  Rev.  John  Webster  Dodge,  who 
built,  two  or  three  years  later,  the  house  No.  211  High  street.' 

HOUSES    ON    (;REEX    and    HARRIS    STREETS. 

In  1805,  Leonard  Smith  purchased  a  lot  of  land  on  the 
southwest  corner  of  Green  and  Harris  streets,  on  which  he 
built  two  brick  dwelling  houses,  No.  37  Green  street  and  No. 
5  Harris  street/  (3wing  to  financial  embarrassment,  this 
property,  with  other  real  estate,  was  conveyed  to  John  Pea- 
body,3  and  subsequently  re-conveyed  to  Leonard  Smith.-*  Jan. 
uary  3,  181 1,  Abraham  Jackson  purchased  the  land  and  build- 
ings on  Green  and  Harris  streets.  ^ 

Li  June,  1 8 12,  Andrew  Frothingham  brought  suit  against 
Leonard  Smith  for  the  payment  of  fi\  e  thousand  dollars,  with 
interest,  and  obtained  judgment,  receiving  in  settlement  of  his 
claim  a  deed  of  the  house  and  land  on  the  corner  of  Green 
and  Harris  streets,  signed  and  delivered  July  22,  18 12,  by 
Philip  Bagley,  sheriff.^'  The  same  day  the  Newburyport  Bank 
received  a  deed  of  the  house  No.  5  Harris  street,  with  the 
land  under  and  adjoining  the  same,  in  settlement  of  its  claim 
against  Abraham  Jackson.' 

Andrew  Frothingham  owned  and  occupied  the  house  on  the 
corner  of  Green  and  Harris  streets  until  his  death.  In  a 
codicil  to  his  will,  proved  March  12,  1833,  he  gave  the  land, 
with  the  buildings  thereon,  to  his  son  Henry,  who  died  in 
1864. 

Jane  Frothingham,  widow,  and  executrix  of  the  will  of 
Henry  PVothingham,  sold  the  house  and  land  to  Ebenezer 
Sumner  June  2,  1865,''  and  July  30,  1904,   Eben  Sumner  and 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  1203,  page  113. 

~  Essex  Deeds,  book  176,  leaf  287;  and  book  17S,  leaf  38. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  186,  leaf  29. 

■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  192,  leaf  164. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  191,  leaf  190. 

""  Book  of  Executions,  No.  I,  leaf  251. 

'  Book  of  Executions,  No.  I,  leaf  253. 

*"  Essex  Deeds,  book  685,  leaf  152. 


66 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  1 7?  ]  'FOR  T 


Mary  F.  Sumner,  "  son  and  daughter  of  the  late  Ebenezer 
Sumner,"  conveyed  the  property  to  Edward  P.  Shaw,  Fred  L. 
Atkinson  and  Henry  J.  Downer,  trustees,  for  the  Newbury- 
port  Lodge,  No.  909,  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks  of  the  United  States  of  America." 

May  3,  183 1,  the  Newburyport  Bank  sold   one-half  of  the 
dwelHng  house  No.  5  Harris  street,  with  the  land  under  and 


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RESIDENCE    OF    CAPT.    WILLIAM    NICHOLS. 


adjoining  the  same,  to  William  Nichols,  an  active  and  enter- 
prising shipmaster,  who  was  in  command  of  the  privateer 
Decatur,  and  afterwards  of  the  Harpy,  in  the  war  of  1812.- 
The  other  half  of  the  house  was  sold  the  same  day  to  Eliza- 
beth, wife  of  John  Wood.^     She  conveyed  the  property  to 


1  Essex  Deeds,  book  1750,  page  26. 
•     2  Essex  Deeds,  book  262,  leaf  104;    Jlistorj'  of   Newburyport  (Currier), 
I,  pages  651-653  and  661-664. 
■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  259,  leaf  245. 


BATHING  HOUSES  67 

Rev.  Frederick  T.  Gray  of  Boston,'  who  sold  it  in  1842  to 
Captain  Nichols.^ 

A  photographic  view  of  the  house  is  reproduced  in  the 
half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page. 

Captain  Nichols,  in  his  will,  dated  March  14,  1861,  and 
proved  March  17,  1863,  gave  one-third  of  the  land,  with  the 
dwelling  house  thereon,  to  each  of  his  three  daughters,  Mar- 
tha \V.  Todd,  Lydia  B.  Hale  and  Mary  Caroline  Nichols. 
It  subsequently  became,  by  purchase  and  inheritance,  the 
property  of  George  E.  Hale,  only  son  of  Benjamin  and  Lydia 
B.  Hale,  and  grandson  of  Capt.  William  Nichols. 

BATHING    HOUSES. 

July  23,  1805,  the  subscribers  to  a  fund  for  building  or 
buying  a  bathing  house  in  Newburyport  were  requested  to 
meet  at  the  tavern  kept  by  Mr.  Perkins^  (^^'olfe  tavern)  ; 
and  four  days  later  John  Boardman  conveyed  to  Stephen 
Howard,  William  Woart  and  Abraham  Perkins  land  on  a  way 
to  be  laid  down  two  rods  wide,-*  leading  from  Pleasant  to  Mer- 
rimack streets,  "  to  and  for  the  use,  benefit  and  Behoof  of 
Edward  St.  Loe  Liverniore,  Daniel  A.  White,  Samuel  Foster 
and  others,  their  associates,  who  have  by  a  certain  Instrument 
or  articles  of  agreement  associated  together  for  the  purpose 
of  erecting  a  Bathing  house."^ 

The  building  was  probably  completed  and  occupied  early  in 
the  spring  of  1806.  Members  of  the  association  were  fur- 
nished with  hot  or  cold  baths  any  day  in  the  week,  Sundays 
excepted,  from  six  o'clock  a.  m.  to  ten  o'clock  p.  m.^ 

February  28,  1807,  Edward  St.  Loe  Livermore,  Jonathan 
Gage,  Stephen  Howard  and  William  Woart,  their  associates 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  307,  leaf  297. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  331,  leaf  203. 

^  Newbiir)-port  Herald  and  Country  (lazette. 

^  Unicorn  street. 

"  Essex  Deeds,  book  179,  leaf  104. 

*  Advertisement  in  Newburyport    Herald,  May  23,  1806. 


6  8  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

and  successors,  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  "  The  Pro- 
prietors of  a  Bathing  House  in  Newburyport."'  On  the 
twenty-fifth  of  September  following",  Stephen  Howard,  Wil- 
liam Woart,  Abraham  Perkins,  Edward  St.  Loe  Livermore, 
Daniel  A.  White  and  Samuel  Foster  conveyed  the  above-de- 
scribed land,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  to  the  proprietors  of 
the  bathing  house.-  November  i,  1814,  the  proprietors  sold 
the  property  to  Jeremiah  and  David  Stickney.^ 

At  or  about  that  date  a  bathing  house  was  erected  on  the 
wharf  where  the  custom  house  now  stands.  June  12,  1827, 
William  Hervey  notified  the  public  that  he  had  purchased  the 
building  on  "Jackson's  wharf  "  and  thoroughly  repaired  and 
relurnished  it  for  the  use  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  desiring  hot 
or  cold  baths. 

In  1834,  there  was  a  bathing  house  on  Merrimack  street, 
near  the  bottom  of  Strong  street,  open  from  five  o'clock  a.  m. 
to  ten  o'clock  p.  m.,  during  the  summer  season.-* 

After  the  erection  of  the  custom  house,  in  1835,  Nathan 
W.  Brown  fitted  up  a  building  on  an  adjoining  wharf,  where 
he  furnished  hot  or  cold  salt-water  baths  for  persons  willing 
to  pay  for  the  same  ;  "^  and  in  1845  another  bathing  house, 
"■  nearly  opposite  the  James  Steam  Mills,"  was  supplied  with 
all  the  modern  conveniences,  and  well  patronized  during  the 
summer  months/' 

In  1892,  the  City  Improvement  society  presented  to  the 
city  of  Newburyport  a  floating  bath  house,  which  was  moored 
in  the  dock  at  the  foot  of  Winter  street,  and  opened  for  use, 
free  of  charge,  in  August  of  that  year.  It  was  kept  in  good 
order  and  condition,  by  the  committee  on  public  property,  un- 
til the  spring  of  1906,  when  it  was  found  to  be  unsuitable  for 
further  service,  and  a  few  months  later  was  sold. 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1806- 1807,  chapter  loS. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  184,  leaf  94. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  208,  leaf  37. 

"  Advertisement  in  the  Newbuiyport  Herald,  July  22,  1834. 

^  Advertisement  in  the  Newbuiyport  Herald,  Aug.  I,  1S37. 

®  Advertisement  in  the  Newburyport  Herald,  Sept.  5,  1S45. 


STEAM  NAVIGATION  ON  MERRIMACK  RIVER  69 

STEAM    NAVIGATION    ON    MERRIMACK    RIVER. 

As  early  as  1 8 1 6  a  small  steamboat  was  built  at  Lowell  and 
used  during  the  summer  months,  transporting  passengers  to 
Andover  and  other  towns  in  that  vicinity.  This  steamboat 
had  two  wheels  on  each  side,  connected  by  an  iron  chain,  with 
wooden  buckets  or  paddles  attached,  which  passed  over  one 
wheel,  near  the  bow,  down  into  the  water,  and  then  up  over 
the  other  wheel,  near  the  stern,  propelling  the  boat  at  the  rate 
of  five  or  six  miles  per  hour  against  wind  and  tide.' 

In  18 18,  the  steamboat  Mobile  was  built  in  Amesbury  by 
Thomas  Bailey  for  Capt.  Edmund  Bartlet  and  others  of  New- 
buryport.  When  she  was  nearly  ready  to  launch,  the  editor 
of  the  Newburyport  Semi-weekly  Herald,  commenting  on  the 
fact,  said,  "  We  beheve  she  is  not  excelled  by  any  vessel  of 
her  class  ev^er  built  in  the  United  States,  as  to  strength,  good 
model,  and  excellent  workmanship."  She  was  rigged  as  a 
three-masted  schooner  and  sailed  November  16,  18 18,  for 
Boston,  where  she  was  supplied  with  an  engine  and  boiler, 
and  thence  for  Mobile,  where  she  was  employed  in  towing 
vessels  in  the  bay  and  on  the  Alabama  river.- 

The  steamer  Merrimack,  built  in  Haverhill,  William  Hasel- 
tine,  master,  made  her  first  trip  from  that  town  to  Newbury- 
port, Tuesday,  April  8,  1828.  For  several  years  she  carried 
passengers  and  merchandise,  during  the  summer  months, 
from  Haverhill  and  other  towns  on  the  river  to  Newburyport.^ 

In  183 1,  the  steamboat  Mechanic  made  excursions  in  the 
bay  and  to  Haverhill  ;■♦  and  about  the  same  time  the  steamer 
Fanny  was  advertised  to  leave  Newburyport  for  occasional 
trips  to  Boar's  Head,  the  Isle  of  Shoals,  Portsmouth  and 
Boston. 

'  Contributions  of  Old  Residents  to  the  Historical  Association  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
volume  I,  pages  318-336. 

-  Ne\vbur)-port  Herald,  September  29,  and  November  13  and  17,  181 8. 
^  Newburj'port  Herald,  April  11,  1S25,  and  July  28,  1829. 
■*  Newburyport  Herald,  August  30,  and  September  6,  1831. 


70 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


In  1833,  the  side-wheel  steamboat  Herald,  about  ninety 
feet  long  on  deck  and  twenty  feet  wide,  was  built  near  the 
head  of  the  Middlesex  canal,  above  Pawtucket  falls,  and  made 
her  first  trip  from  Lowell  to  Nashua  May  31,  1834.  Six 
years  later  she  was  sold,  taken  down  the  river  to  Newbury- 
port,  and  thence  to  New  York,  where  she  was  employed  trans- 
porting passengers  to  Albany  and  other  towns  on  the  Hudson 
river.' 

In  1834,  a  small,  well-built  boat,  named  the  Essex,  owned 
by  Michael  Pearson  and  George  Fitz  of  Newburyport,  carried 
passengers  during  the  summer  months  to  Plum  island  and 
Haverhill.-  She  was  propelled  by  horse  power,  and  was  in 
service  on  the  river  for  several  seasons. 

In  July,  1835,  the  steamer  Citizen  was  advertised  to  make 
excursion  trips  from  Ferry  wharf  to  Portsmouth  and  Boston. 

The  steam  propeller  Decatur,  owned  by  Albert  Wood,  John 
Porter  and  John  Wood,  was  built  by  Stephen  Jackman,  jr., 
and  made  her  first  trip  from  Newburyport  to  Boston  April 
21,  1845,  Joseph  Bartlett,  master.  The  side-wheel  steamboat 
Ohio  was  launched  from  the  yard  of  Stephen  Jackman,  jr., 
April  7,  1846.  Under  the  command  of  Capt.  Jeremiah  Lunt, 
she  made  two  trips  weekly  from  Newburyport  to  Boston  un- 
til May,  1847,  when  she  was  sold  to  run  in  a  fine  of  steam 
packets  from  New  Orleans  to  Galveston. 

April  9,  1846,  John  Porter,  John  Wood,  Micajah  Lunt  and 
their  associates  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  "  The  New- 
buryport, Boston  and  Haverhill  Steam  Boat  Company,"  with 
power  to  build  and  employ  one  or  more  steamboats  for  the 
transportation  of  merchandise  and  passengers  between  New- 
buryport and  Boston  and  on  the  Merrimack  river. ^  On  the 
thirtieth  of  June  following  the  side- wheel  steamer  Lawrence, 
just  completed,  commenced  her  daily  trips  between  Newbury- 

'  Contributions  of  Old  Residents  to  the  Historical  Association  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
volume  I,  pages  318-336. 

2  Newburj'port  Herald,  July,  1834,  July  10  and  24,  and  August  4,  1835. 

3  Acts  and  Resolves,  1846,  chapter  204. 


STEAM  NAVIGATION  ON  MERRIMACK  RIVER  71 

port  and  Haverhill.  She  left  Central  wharf  at  one  o'clock 
P.  M.  for  Haverhill,  returning-  the  next  clay,  leaving  Haver- 
hill at  half-past  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  stopping,  on 
the  way  up  and  down,  to  take  passengers  at  the  usual  landing 
places.'  She  was  sold  in  1848,  and  employed  in  the  trans- 
portation of  passengers  between  Norwich  and  New  London, 
in  Connecticut. 

March  3,  1847,  Joh»  Burrill,  John  Huse,  John  N.  Wills 
and  their  associates  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  "  The 
Merrimack  Steam  Navigation  Company,"  and  authorized  to 
build  or  employ  one  or  more  steamboats  to  be  used  in  the 
harbor  of  Newburyport  or  on  the  Merrimack  river.-  June 
16,  1848,  a  new  steamer,  named  the  Lawrence,  made  her  first 
trip  from  Newburyport  to  Haverhill,  and  thence  to  Lawrence.^ 
She  was  a  small  boat,  drawing  only  fifteen  inches  of  water, 
and  was  employed  on  the  river  for  one  season  only.  In  1 849, 
she  was  sold  to  the  New  Bedford  and  California  Mining  Com- 
pany, and  was  afterwards  employed  on  the  San  Joaquin  river, 
between  San  Francisco  and  Stockton,  and  on  the  Yuba  river 
between  Sacramento  and  Marysville.^ 

In  the  summer  of  1849,  the  steamer  California,  built  in 
Waterville,  Maine,  Eleazer  R.  Walker  and  Albert  Russell, 
owners,  and  A.  Fuller,  master,  made  two  trips  daily  between 
Newburyport  and  Haverhill  ;  and  at  the  same  time  the  steamer 
Sarah,  Capt.  Isaac  Shepard,  was  advertised  to  take  merchan- 
dise and  passengers  from  Newburyport  to  other  towns  on  the 
river.  Both  these  steamers  were  sold  in  September  of  that 
year  to  be  taken  to  Boston  and  thence  to  San  Francisco. 

'  Newbunport  Herald,  July  17,  1846. 

•  Acts  and  Resolves,  1847,   chapter  38. 

3  Newburyport  Herald,  June  17,    1848. 

■•  The  steamer  Lawrence  was  completely  dismantled  in  the  dock  at  Urown's 
wharf,  Newburyport,  by  Charles  K.  Sargent  and  Daniel  11.  .Smith.  Her  ma- 
chinery' was  taken  out  and  shipped  to  San  Francisco,  with  all  the  timber,  planks, 
bolts  and  other  material  used  in  the  construction  of  her  hull.  Under  the  super- 
vision of  Mr.  Smith,  she  was  rebuilt  in  California,  and  was  the  first  steamboat 
employed  to  carrj'  passengers  and  freight  on  the  Yuba  river. 


7  2  HIS  TOR  y  OF  NEWBUR  YPOR  T 


STEAMER    CITV    OE    IIAVEKHILL,    liUlI.T    IN     iSSo. 

In  July,  1850,  the  Newburyport  Daily  Herald  announced 
the  arrival  of  the  steamer  Narragansett,  John  B.  Tuttle,  mas- 
ter. She  was  in  active  service  on  the  river  for  two  or  three 
months.  On  the  fourteenth  of  August,  the  steamer  Merri- 
mac,  built  under  the  supervision  of  David  M.  Coffin,  in  the 
yard  owned  by  John  Currier,  jr.,  began  to  make  regular  trips 
between  Newburyport  and  Haverhill,  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  William  Pritchard.  July  25,  1854,  she  was  advertised 
for  sale  by  a  committee  appointed  for  that  purpose,  consisting 
of  Micajah  Lunt,  William  Graves  and  Mark  Synions.  In 
June,  1855,  she  was  sent  to  Boston  and  sold  at  auction. 

In  the  meantime,  the  steamer  C.  B.  Stevens,  built  in  Wil- 
mington, Delaware,  in  185  i,  owned  by  Nicholas  Varina,  Sam- 
uel Stevens,  Thomas  Buntin  and  others  of  Newburyport,  made 
her  first  trip  from  Newburyport  to  Haverhill  June  23,  1852, 
Charles  B.  Stevens,  captain  ;'  and  the  steamer  Lawrence,  a 
new  and  commodious  boat,  much  larger  than  any  before 
employed  on  the  river,  was  chartered  and  run,  at  a  pecuniary 
loss,  for  several  months  for  the  purpose  of  stimulating  trade 
and  developing  the  resources  of  the  Merrimack  valley. 

The  steamer  Silver  Star,  Thomas  McKinney,  master,  made 
excursions  to  Haverhill,    Plum  island  and  other  places  of  in- 

^  July  26,  1853,   the  Newburyport  Ilerakl  anmiunced  the  sale  of  the  steamer  C. 
B.  Stevens  at  auction  in  Boston. 


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73 


terest  on  the  river  and  in  the   harbor   during  tlie  summer  of 

1855- 

Several  years  later,  the  Peerless,  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  Joseph  M.  Cofifin,  was  advertised  to  take  passengers 
from  Newburyport  to  Haverhill  ;  and  in  1872  the  steamer 
Glide,  owned  and  commanded  by  Captain  Coffin,  was  running 
from  the  above-named  towns  to  Black  Rocks  and  Plum  island. 
In  April  of  that  year  the  steam  propeller  May  Queen,  built 
in  Philadelphia  in  1868,  was  purchased  by  Samuel  Poor  of 
Haverhill,  and  employed  in  the  transportation  of  passengers 
and  merchandise  for  many  years. 


^TEAMEK    MKKRI.MACK,    BL'ILT    IN     1S92. 

In  1878,  Capt,  E.  E.  Stimpson  and  Christopher  C.  Cook  of 
Haverhill  purchased  the  City  of  Frederickton,  a  stern-wheel 
boat,  built  in  the  province  of  New  Brunswick  in  1872.  She 
made  her  first  trip  to  Haverhill  June  24,  1878,  but  having  a 
foreign  register,  was  unable  to  obtain  a  license  to  carry  freight 
or  passengers.  In  April,  1880,  she  was  sold  to  Hon.  Edward 
P.  Shaw,  taken  to  Black  Rocks,  and  converted  into  a  restau- 
rant. Her  engine  and  boilers  were  transferred  to  the  steamer 
City  of  Haverhill,  built  in  Newburyport  by  John  T.  Plllmore 
for  the  Merrimack  Valley  Steamboat  Company.' 

'  The  Merrimack  X'alley  Steam lioat  Company  was  organized  in  Decemlier,  1879. 
The  steamer  City  of   Haverhill  was  launched  March  25,  1880. 


74 


HIS  TOR  \ '  OF  NE  VVB  URYPORl 


The  last-named  steamer  made  her  first  trip  from  Haverhill 
to  Black  Rocks  June  i8,  1880.  She  was  about  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  tons  measurement,  and  was  propelled  by  a 
stern  wheel,  as  shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  page  72. 
In  1888,  she  was  sold,  and  was  lost  on  her  way  to  Key  West, 
Florida. 

The  Merrimack,  a  stern-wheeled  steamboat,  about  two 
hundred  tons  register,  built  in  1892  by  Lemuel  Marquand,  at 
Ring's  Island,  Salisbury,  for  the  Merrimack  Valley  Steamboat 
Company,  is  still  in  active  service  during  the  summer  months, 
making  two  trips  daily  from  Haverhill  to  Newburyport  and 
Black  Rocks. 


HAVERHILL    EXPRESS    COMPANY  S    STEAMER. 

The  steam-tug  Thurlow  Weed,  built  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in 
1762,  was  purchased  by  Newell  Boyd  of  Amesbury,  Sargent 
&  Holden  of  Haverhill  and  others.  She  arrived  in  New- 
buryport June  5,  1864,  and  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  was 
employed  in  towing  vessels  in  the  harbor  and  on  the  river. 

In  1875,  the  steam-tug  Mattie  Sargent,  built  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1 87 1,  was  purchased  by  Newell  Boyd,  Sargent  &  Hol- 
den, John  O.  Davis  and  others.  She  was  commanded  by 
William  Robinson  for  one  or  two  years,  and  afterwards  by 
Capt.  John  O.  Davis  and  ('apt.  Clemens  E.  Davis.  During 
the  summer  months  the  barge  Queen  of  the  Merrimack,  built 
for  Newell  Boyd  and  others  at  Salisbury  in  1870,  made  fre- 
quent excursions  from  Haverhill  and  other  towns  on  the  river 
to  Black  Rocks,  in  tow  of  the  steam-tug  Mattie  Sargent. 

Subsequently,  the  Haverhill  Steamboat  Express  Company 
was  organized  for  the  purpose  of  towing  vessels  and  carrying 
passengers  to  and  from  Haverhill  and  other  towns  on  Merri- 
mack river.  The  above-named  steam-tugs,  with  the  barge 
Queen  of  the  Merrimack,  and  steam  propeller  General  Bart- 
lett,  built  in  East  Boston,  were  purchased  by  the  new  company 


PEN TUCKE T  NA  VI G A TION  C OMPA NY  75 

and  used  in  transportinL;"  passengers  and  merchandise  for  sev- 
eral years.' 

PENTUCKET  NAVIGATION  COMPANY. 

Benjamin  F.  Butler,  John  Nesmith,  DeWitt  C.  Farrington, 
their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorporated  in  1867,  by 
the  name  of  the  Pcotucket  Navigation  Company,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  improving  navigation  in  the  Merrimack  river,  and 
transporting  coal  and  other  merchandise  from  Newburyport 
to  Lowell. - 

It  was  not,  however,  until  July,  1876,  that  the  steamer 
Maud,  built  in  Haverhill,  made  her  first  trip  from  Newbury- 
port to  Lawrence,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Henry  Vatter, 
and  in  the  month  of  September  following  was  advertised  to 
make  the  trip  daily.  She  was  sold  in  1877,  and  taken  to 
Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

The  side-wheel  steam-tug  Charles  L.  Mather,  built  in 
Athens,  N.  Y.,  was  purchased  by  the  Pentucket  Navigation 
Company,  and  arrived  in  Newburyport  October  i,  1876.  Two 
days  later,  on  her  way  to  Lawrence,  she  passed  through 
the  draw  of  the  Essex-Merrimack  and  other  bridges  on  the 
river  with  difficulty.  After  leaving  Haverhill,  she  struck  a 
rock  at  the  foot  of  the  rapids  in  Dutch  Gap,  and  was  subse- 
quently beached  on  Kimball's  island  for  temporary  repairs. 
On  the  sixteenth  of  November  following,  with  a  barge  load  of 
coal  in  tow,  she  made  a  successful  trip  from  Newburyport  to 
Lawrence. 

The  next  year  the  steamer  Kitty  Boynton,  f(jrt)'-five  tons 
register,  was  built  by  Colby  &  Lunt,  in  Newburyport,  to 
assist  in  the  transportation  of  coal  and  other  merchandise 
through  the  canal  from  Lawrence  to  Lowell. ^ 

'  The  General  Bartlett  arrived  in  Newburyport  June  eighteenth,  and  made  her 
first  trip  to  Haverhill  June  24,  1879,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  John  C).  Davis. 

2  Acts  and  Resolves,  1867,  chapter  115. 

3  The  steamer  Kitty  Boynton  was  advertised  for  sale  in  the  Newburyport  Herald 
June  3,  1882. 


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The  Startled  Fawn,  built  in  Philadelphia  in  1875,  for  the 
transportation  of  passengers  attending  the  Centennial  fair  in 
that  city,  was  purchased  by  the  Pentucket  Navigation  (Com- 
pany, and  made  her  first  trip  July  15,  1879,  from  Newburyport 
to  Haverhill.  She  was  afterward  employed  in  the  development 
of  travel  and  the  transportation  of  merchandise  on  the  river. 

In  1880,  the  Orient,  a  stern- wheeled  boat,  built  in  Port- 
land, Maine,  was  purchased.  She  arrived  in  Newburyport  on 
the  eighteenth  of  May,  but  the  inspectors  at  the  custom 
house  found  her  boilers  defective.  She  was  withdrawn  from 
active  service,  dismantled,  and  moored  near  the  marine  rail- 
way on  Ring's  island,  in  Salisbury,  where  she  remained  until 
destroyed  by  fire  six  or  eight  years  later. 

The  steam-tug  Wauwinet,  purchased  in  Boston  by  Edward 
P.  Shaw,  arrived  in  Newburyport  in  tow  of  steamer  Florence 
July  23,  1880.  She  was  re-built  by  Capt.  Joseph  M.  Coffin, 
provided  with  a  new  engine  and  boiler,  and  sold  to  the  Pen- 
tucket Navigation  Company  in  July,  1881.  The  next  year 
she  made  daily  trips  from  the  foot  of  Canal  street,  in  Lawrence, 
to  Haverhill,  Newburyport  and  the  sea. 

The  stern-wheeled  steamer  Merrimack,  built  in  Essex, 
Mass.,  made  her  first  trip  from  Haverhill  to  Lawrence  in 
November,  1882,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Haverty. 
She  was  withdrawn  from  service  during  the  winter  months, 
and  early  the  following  spring  was  taken  to  Jacksonville, 
Florida.  All  the  property  of  the  Pentucket  Navigation  Com- 
pany, not  otherwise  disposed  of,  was  sold  at  auction  in  the 
city  of  Lawrence  May  25,  1883. 

people's  line  of  steamers. 

In  1880,  Edward  P.  Shaw  and  others  organized  the  Peo- 
ple's Line  of  Steamers,  to  carry  passengers  and  merchandise 
between  Haverhill,  Amesbury  and  other  towns  on  the  Merri- 
mack river  and  Newburyport  and  Boston. 

The  steam-propeller  May  Queen,  owned  by  the  Merrimack 


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77 


SIKAMKK    !•:.    V.    SHAW. 


Valley  Steamboat  Company,  was  purchased  and  used  in  the 
passenger  service,  and  the  side-wheel  steamboat  Florence, 
purchased  in  Rhode  Island,  made  daily  trips  from  Newbury- 
port  to  Boston,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  J.  F.  Tilton.' 

In  1883,  the  steamer  E.  P.  Shaw,  built  at  Petty's  island, 
New  Jersey,  was  employed  in  the  transportation  of  passengers 
to  Black  Rocks,  during  the  summer  months  ;  and,  in  1889, 
the  Pauline,  built  by  Femuel  Marquand  at  Ring's  island,  in 
Salisbury,  was  engaged  in  the  same  service. 

In  1 89 1,  the  street  railway  from  Market   square,  Newbury- 


^  In  September,  1880,  the  steamer  Florence  was  sold,  and  the  E.  P.  Morris  was 
purchased  to  take  her  place ;]_ but  the  business  provinj^  unremunerative  she  was 
withdrawn  from  active  service  in  October,  188 1. 


78 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  URYPORT 


port,  to  Salisbury  beach  was  equipped  for  electric  car  service, 
and  the  People's  Line  of  steamers  discontinued. 

PHILADELPHIA    AND    READING    COAL    AND    IRON    COMPANY    AND 
MERRIMACK    RIVER    TOWING    COMPANY    STEAMERS. 

In  1873,  Henry  M.  Cross,  a  wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in 
coal  in  Newburyport,  sold  his  wharf  property  to  the  Philadel- 
phia and  Reading  Coal  and  Iron  Company,'  and  was  appoint- 
ed agent  of  the  company  for  Newburyport  and  vicinity,  which 
position  he  held  ten  or  twelve  years.  Adjoining  lots  of  land 
were  purchased,  and  the  erection  of  a  coal  pocket,  for  storing 
and  distributing  coal,  begun  in  1874,  was  completed  in  1876. 
Soon  after  the  last-named  date,  the  iron  colliers,  "  Leopard," 
"  Panther,"  "  Hercules,"  "  Achilles,"  "  Rattlesnake,"  "  Centi- 
pede" and  others  made  frequent  trips  from  Philadelphia  to 
Newburyport  with  coal.  Barges  in  tow  of  steamers  are  now 
employed  in  that  service,  and  larger  storage  capacity  has  been 
provided  by  the  erection  of  additional  coal  pockets. 

In  1880,  the  steam-tug  Luke  Hoyt,  built  in  Philadelphia  in 
1863,  was  purchased  by  William  E.  McQuillen  and  others 
and  twelve  months  later  the  steam-tug  Farnsworth,  built  in 
New  Jersey  in  1877,  was  purchased  by  Henry  M.  Cross  and 
others.  The  owners  of  both  of  these  tugs  united,  in  1882,  to 
form  the  Merrimack  River  Towing  Company,  Henry  M. 
Cross,  president,  William  E.  McQuillen,  general  manager,  and 
James  V.  Felker,  secretary  and  treasurer.  Several  years  later 
the  company  purchased  the  steam-tug  Thurlow  Weed,  owned 
by  its  competitor,  the  Haverhill  Express  Company,  and  soon 
obtained  complete  control  of  the  towing  business  on  the  river 
and  in  the  harbor. 

There  was  an  active  demand  for  these  boats,  and  vessels 
loaded  with  coal,  lumber  and  other  merchandise  were  fre- 
quently obliged  to  wait  in  Newburyport  for  a  favorable  oppor- 
tunity to  proceed  up  the  river.     The   steam-tug  Farnsworth, 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  882,  leaves  S3  and  254;   book  891,  leaf  109. 


MERRIMACK  RIVER    'I OWING   COMPANY  STEAMERS       79 


STKAM-TUGS    FARNSWORTIl    AND    THURLOW    \VEP:IJ. 

nearly  ready  to  take  a  barge  load  of  stone  to  the  jetties,  and 
the  Thurlow  Weed,  preparing  to  tow  a  coal-ladened  schooner 
to  Haverhill,  are  shown  in  the  above  half-tone  print. 

In  addition  to  the  above-named  tugs,  the  Merrimack  River 
Towing  Company  purchased  the  Clara  E.  Uhler,  built  in  Phil- 
adelphia in  1 88 1.  Subsequently,  the  company  increased  its 
capital  stock,  and  purchased  the  Bronx,  built  in  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  in  1884,  the  Hazel  Dell,  built  in  New  Baltimore,  N.  Y.,  in 
1888,  the  Cygnet,  built  in  East  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1890,  the 
Powow,  built  in  Kennebunkport,  Maine,  in  1904,  and  the 
Monomack,  built  in  East  Boston  in  1908. 

The  Luke  Hoyt,  the  Farnsworth,  the  Thurlow  Weed  and 
the  Clara  E.  Uhler  were  sold  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago.  At 
the  present  time  the  Bronx,  Hazel  Dell,  Cygnet,  Powow  and 
Monomack  are  employed  eight  or  nine  months  in  the  year  in 
towing  vessels  in  and  out  of  the  harbor  and  transporting 
coal  in  barges  from  Newburyport  to  Haverhill  and  other  towns 
on  the  river. 


So  mS TOR  ] '  OF  NE  WB L 'R  } 'PORT 

STEAM    YACHTS,    SEA-GOING  STEAMERS   AND    EXCURSION  BOATS. 

The  steam  yacht  Everett,  twenty-five  tons  register,  built  in 
Salisbury  in  1874,  by  Joseph  M.  Coffin,  made  frequent  ex- 
cursions in  1875  from  Newburyport  to  Black  Rocks  and 
other  places  of  interest  on  the  river. 

June  9,  1877,  the  steamer  Alice  M.,  built  in  Haverhill, 
made  her  first  trip  to  Newburyport  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  Henry  Vatter.  The  next  year  she  was  employed  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  in  taking  passengers  from  the  city  of 
Lawrence  to  the  sea. 

In  October,  1877,  the  steam  yacht  Evangeline,  forty-two 
feet  long  and  eight  feet  beam,  came  from  Salem  to  Newbur)-- 
port,  thence  to  Lawrence,  and  through  the  Essex  Company's 
canal  to  Lowell.  She  made  frequent  trips  between  that  city 
and  Nashua,  and  is  said  to.be  the  largest  boat  that  has  ever 
come  up  the  river  to  Lawrence,  and  the  only  one  that  has 
passed  through  the  canal  to  Lowell. 

In  1878,  the  Three  Brothers,  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
Joseph  M.  Coffin,  was  advertised  to  make  frequent  trips  from 
Newburyport  to  Plum  island  and  Salisbury  beach. 

In  1879,  the  steamer  Massasoit,  purchased  in  Boston  b)' 
John  C.  Tilton  of  Haverhill,  was  converted  into  a  barge 
and  employed,  in  connection  with  the  steam-tug  Charles  L. 
Mather,  in  carrying  excursion  parties  from  Haverhill  to  the 
seashore. 

In  1880,  two  small  steamers,  the  White  Fawn  and  the 
Wanderer,  made  trips  almost  daily  from  Newburyport  to  Glou- 
cester, Isle  of  Shoals  and  Portsmouth. 

In  July,  1 88 1,  Edward  P.  Shaw  purchased  the  steam-tug 
George  A.  Chaffee,  and  employed  her,  under  the  name  of  the 
"Jetty,"  in  towing  barges  loaded  with  stone  from  the  quarry 
opposite  Carr's  island  to  the  jetties  at  the  mouth  of  the  river. 

In  1883,  the  Zepher,  a  small  steam  yacht,  and  the  Evan- 
geline, about  twenty-three  tons  register,  built  in  Ipswich  in 
1 88 1,  and  rebuilt  at  Danversport  in  1882,  were  advertised  to 


STEAM  YACHTS,  SEA- GOING  STEAMERS,  ETC.  8i 

take  passengers  from  Newburyport  to  Salisbury  beach  and 
Plum  island  ;  and  the  Lawrence,  Captain  Haverty,  ran  from 
Amesbury  to  Newburyport,  connecting  with  the  People's  Line 
of  Steamers  for  Black  Rocks. 

The  Minneola,  a  twin-screw  steamer,  built  in  Newburyport 
in  1887,  by  John  T.  Plllmore,  for  Herbert  E.  Wales  of  Haver- 
hill, was  for  two  or  three  years  a  popular  excursion  boat,  mak- 
ing frequent  trips  from  Haverhill  to  Boar's  Head,  Portsmouth, 
and  the  Isle  of  Shoals.  She  was  sold  early  in  the  month  of 
June,  1889,  and  taken  to  Providence,  R.  L 

The  Josie  M.,  a  small  steamer,  built  and  owned  by  Charles 
H.  Sargent  and  Lemuel  Marquand,  made  excursions  down 
the  harbor  in  the  summer  of  1888,  and  frequently  extended 
her  trips  to  Ipswich  and  Cape  Ann  when  the  weather  was 
favorable.  She  was  sold  in  1891,  and  her  name  changed  to 
Edgewater. 

The  side-wheel  steamer  Lewiston,  owned  by  the  Bay  State 
Steamship  Company,  made  daily  trips  from  Newburyport  to 
Boston  from  May  2,  to  July  7,  1898,  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  George  Y .  Woodman,  but  she  was  found  to  be  unsuit- 
able for  freight  and  passenger  service  on  the  Merrimack  river 
and  was  afterward  employed  elsewhere. 

The  steamer  City  of  Haverhill,  built  in  East  Boston  by 
Robert  F.  Keough  for  the  Haverhill,  Newburyport  and  Bos- 
ton Steamboat  Company,'  was  emi)loyed  in  carrying  merchan- 
dise and  passengers  during  the  summer  months  in  1902,  from 
Haverhill  to  Newburyport,  and  thence  to  Boston.  She  was 
commanded  by  Capt.  George  Y .  W^oodman,  and  in  October  of 
that  year  was  sold  to  John  H.  McKinnon  of  Boston,  and 
afterward  to  James  D.  Minto  of  Providence,  R.  I. 

In  addition  to  the  above-described  steam-tugs  and  steam- 
boats, a  number  of  steam  launches  and  private  yachts  have 
been  built,  under  the  supervision  of  their  owners,  in  Newbury- 

'  Henry  B.  I.ittle,  president:    John  E.  McCusker,  treasurer. 


m 

'1 

yt;-^' 

, 

STEAM  YACHTS,  SEA-GOING  STEAMERS,  ETC.  83 

port.  The  largest  of  these  yachts,  the  Chetolah,  built  for 
Capt.  Charles  Lunt  in  1891,  was  designed  and  thoroughly 
equipped  for  cruising  on  the  New  England  coast.  In  the 
same  class,  but  considerably  smaller  in  tonnage,  was  the 
Vesta,  built  in  1893  for  William  H.  Noyes. 

The  steam  yacht  Dora,  built  in  East  Boston  in  1893,  and 
purchased  by  Frederick  S.  Moseley,  esq.,  in  February,  1895, 
for  his  private  use,  made  frequent  trips  during  the  next  three 
or  four  years  to  places  of  interest  in  the  vicinity  of  Newbury- 
port.  She  was  a  swift  and  staunch  sea-boat,  able  to  withstand 
the  fury  of  the  winds  and  waves,  and  provided  with  ample 
accommodations  for  comfort  and  convenience.  The  half-tone 
print  on  the  opposite  page  is  taken  from  a  photograph  of  the 
Dora,  as  she  lay  at  anchor  in  the  Merrimack  river,  nearly 
opposite  the  residence  of  her  owner.  She  was  sold  to  the 
United  States  government  in  October,  1899  ;  and  was  subse- 
quently employed  in  the  hospital  service  at  or  near  the  island 
of  Cuba. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

SOLDIERS    IN    THE  '  REVOLUTIONARY     WAR,      MILITARY     COMPA- 
NIES,   GUN    HOUSE    AND    VETERAN    ARTILLERY 
ASSOCIATION. 

Resolutions  condemning  the  arbitrary  acts  passed  by 
parliament,  regulating  the  commerce  and  government  of  the 
province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  were  adopted  in  Newburyport 
in  May,  1774,  and  independent  military  companies  were 
speedily  organized  and  equipped  to  defend  the  political  rights 
and  privileges  guaranteed  to  the  province  under  its  charter. 
September  21,  1774,  the  following  notice  appeared  in  the 
Essex  Journal  and  Merrimack  Packet  : — 

Wednesday  last  the  independent  military  society  in  this  town  met  at 
the  town-house  compleat  in  arms  and  ammunition  :  After  having  been 
reviewed  by  their  officers  chosen  by  the  society,  they  performed  the  man- 
ual exercise  and  filings,  after  which  they  marched  to  the  Mason's  arms 
tavern,  and  there  performed  the  evolutions  ;  and  from  thence  marched 
to  Mr.  William  Teel's  (a  gentleman  that  has  always  not  only  talked,  but 
acted  upon  the  genuine  principles  of  patriotism),  who  had  prepared  an 
elegant  entertainment  for  the  society ;  after  spending  a  few  very  agree- 
able hours  with  a  number  of  gentlemen  (whom  Mr.  Teel  had  invited) 
in  conversation,  repast,  and  drinking  a  number  of  loyal  and  patriotic 
toasts,  the  society  again  rallyed,  marched  to  the  town-house,  and  after 
firing  three  vollies  lodged  their  arms.  All  was  conducted  with  the  great- 
est order  and  good  humour. 

At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Newburyport  October  24,  1 774, 
to  consider  the  deplorable  condition  of  public  affairs  and  de- 
termine what  action  should  be  taken  "  to  protect  and  preserve 
the  rights  and  privileges  granted  and  guaranteed  by  the  char- 
ter of  the  Province,"  the  following  votes  were  passed  : — 

84 


SOLDIERS  IN  THE  REVOLUTIONARY  WAR  85 

Voted  that  all  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Town  be  desired  to  furnish 
themselves  with  arms  and  ammunition  according  to  Law,  and  that  they 
have,  also.  Bayonets  fixed  to  their  Guns  as  soon  as  may  be. 

Voted  that  the  Committee  of  Safety  be  desired  to  enquire  into  the 
matter  and  that  they  be  ready  in  Ten  Days,  at  the  farthest,  to  lay  before 
the  Town  a  list  of  those  who  are  furnished  agreeable  to  this  vote,  and 
those  who  are  not.' 

On  the  tenth  of  November  following  it  was  voted  that  the 
male  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  over  sixteen  years  of  age, 
except  those  excused  by  law  from  military  duty  and  persons 
exempt  by  reason  of  physical  disability  should  be  required  to 
join  one  of  the  four  companies  of  miUtia  already  organized  or 
one  of  the  new  companies,  of  fifty  members  each,  to  be 
formed  immediately.  At  the  same  meeting  the  committee  of 
safety  recommended  and  the  town  adopted  the  following 
vote  : — 

That  the  four  companies  of  this  Town,  as  they  are  now  divided  by 
lines,  chuse  their  respective  Captains,  Lieutenants,  and  Ensigns,  by  a 
majority  of  votes  to  be  collected  by  the  Selectmen  and  Assessors  from 
every  person  within  the  limits  of  each  company,  whether  they  be  in  the 
alarm  or  training  band  list,  excepting  those  who,  at  that  time,  may  be 
formed  into  companies  of  not  less  than  fifty  men  in  each  company.^ 

November  seventeenth,  the  selectmen  and  assessors  were 
instructed  to  report  the  names  of  all  persons  who  were  not 
at  that  date  connected  with  one  of  the  military  companies  or- 
ganized for  the  defence  of  the  town  ;  and,  March  9,  1775,  it 
was  voted  to  raise  a  company  of  minute  men  and  pay  each 
man  two  dollars  for  a  whole  day's  and  one  dollar  for  a  half 
day's  service  in  drilling.^  Subsequently,  the  town  voted  to 
give  the  minute  men  as  much  for  their  time  "  in  learning  and 
practicing  the  art  military  as  any  Town  in  the  County  for  y® 
same  purpose."-* 

'  Newbur)-port  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  211. 
^  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  213. 
3  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  227. 
■•  Newburj'port  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  230. 


86  ^IS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB I  'R  1  'FOR  T 

When  rumors  of  the  battle  at  Lexington  and  Concord 
reached  Newburyport,  at  mid-day,  April  19,  1775,  preparations 
were  made  to  send,  with  all  possible  dispatch,  to  the  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  American  troops  at  Cambridge  a  com- 
pany of  one  hundred  men,  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
Moses  No  well.'  Two  heavy  cannon,  with  ammunition  and 
other  military  supplies,  were  forwarded  immediately  after  the 
company  started  on  its  march.  Christian  Febiger,  a  Danish 
soldier,  living  in  Newburyport,  assisted  in  these  military  prep- 
arations, as  stated  in  the  following  letter  : — - 


Newburyport,  April  28,  1775 
Sir 

Mr.  Christian  Febiger,  the  bearer,  has  been  a  resident  in  this  town 
about  three  weeks.  He  came  last  from  New-haven  in  Connecticut  & 
from  what  Acquaintance  we  have  had  with  him  it  appears  to  us  that  he 
is  a  person  well  acquainted  with  the  Art  Military  &  professes  that  since 
he  is  a  Dane  he  is  willing  to  serve  in  the  American  Army  for  pay.  He 
appeared  very  read}-  to  assist  in  our  late  Alarm. 

In  behalf  of  the  Committee 

JONA    TiTCOMB 

To  the  Honbie  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  War.- 


At  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill,  Christian  Febiger  was  adju- 
tant of  the  Thirty-eighth  Massachusetts  regiment,  command- 
ed by  Col.  Samuel  Gerrish  of  Newbury.^ 

On  that  memorable  day,  two  military  companies,  under  the 
command  of  Capt.  Ezra  Lunt  and  Capt.  Benjamin  Perkins  of 
Newburyport,  were  in  the  Seventeenth  regiment,  which  held 
an  exposed  position  near  the  summit  of  the  hill.-*  The  com- 
missioned officers  of  this  regiment  were  as  follows  :  — 

'  For  the  names  of  the  officers  and  men  in  Captain  NoweU's  company,  see  His- 
tory of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  340. 

2  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  CXLVI,  page  25;  American  Archives,  Fourth 
Series,  volume  II,  page  433. 

History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  604. 

''  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  546-548. 


^     «^ 


2 

o 


88 


HIS  TON  V  OF  NE  \VB  I  'R  \  'FOR  T 


Colonel,  Moses  Little. 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  Isaac  Smith. 
Major,  James  Collins. 


CAPTAINS. 

Jacob  Gerrish, 
Nathaniel  Warner, 
Nathaniel  Wade, 
Abraham  Dodge, 
John  Baker, 
Ezra  Lunt, 
Benjamin  Perkins, 
Gideon  Parker, 
Joseph  Robey, 
Timothy  Barnard. 


LIEUTENANTS. 

Silas  Adams, 
John  Burnam, 
Joseph  Hodgkins, 
Ebenezer  Low, 
Caleb  Thompson, 
Moses  Kent, 
Joseph  Whitemore, 
Joseph  Eveley, 
Shuball  Gorham, 
Paul  Lunt. 


SECOND  LIEUTENANTS. 

Thomas  Brown, 
Daniel  Collins, 
Aaron  Parker, 
James  Lord, 
Daniel  Dresser, 
Nathl  Montgomery, 
William  Stickney, 
Moses  Trask, 
Enoch  Parsons, 
Amos  Atkinson.' 


Moses  Little,  colonel  of  the  Seventeenth  regiment,  was  born 
in  Newbury  May  8,  1724.  He  married  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  sister  of  Gen.  Jacob  Bailey,  June  5,  1743,  and 
four  or  five  years  later  built  a  dwelling  house  at  Turkey  hill, 
where  he  lived  until  his  death  in  1 798.  Although  more  than 
a  century  and  a  half  old  this  house  is  still  in  good  order  and 
condition  as  shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page. 

In  addition  to  the  men  from  Nevvburyport  in  the  companies 
commanded  by  Captain  Ezra  Lunt  and  Capt.  Benjamin  Per- 
kins, Benjamin  Newman  and  John  Spring  were  drummers  and 
fifers,  and  John  Choat,  Eben  Choat,  Samuel  Place  and  John 
Carvanaugh,  privates,  in  Capt.  Joseph  Gerrish's  company  ;- 
John  Halliday,  Charles  Rogers,  John  Silloway  and  Jonathan 
Buswell  were  in  Capt.  Gideon  Parker's  company  \^  and  Patrick 
Herrington,  Shadrick  Ireland,  John  Hussey,  Solomon  Obbins, 
William  Pottle,  Daniel  Pike,  William  Pay,^  Richard  Swan, 
John  Smith,    John  Stone,  Israel  Teal,    Patrick    Tracy,-*    John 

1  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  CXLVI,  page  274;  Histoiy  of  Newbury 
(Currier),  page  600. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  601. 

•'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XV,  page  91;  History 
of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  600  note. 

"•  In  September,  1775,  William  Pay  and  Patrick  Tracy  joined  the  expedition, 
under  the  command  of  Col.  Benedict  Arnold,  for  the  capture  of  Ouebec. 


SOLDIKKS  IN   Tin-:  RFA'OLUriOXARY  WAR  89 

York,  Benjamin  Clannen  and  CHiarles  Butler,  all  of  Newbury- 
port,  were  in  Capt.  Timothy  l^arnard's  company.' 

John  Foster  of  Newburyjwrt  was  in  Capt.  Aaron  Haynes' 
company,  in  Colonel  l^rewer's  regiment,  on  the  seventeenth 
day  of  June  ;-  and  early  in  September  Samuel  Foot  and  Wil- 
liam Lambert  enlisted  in  Capt.  Jeremiah  (lilman's  company 
in  Col.  John  Nixon's  regiment.-^ 

On  the  nineteenth  of  September,  twelve  or  thirteen  hun- 
dred men,  under  the  command  of  Col.  Benedict  Arnold,  sailed 
in  eleven  transports  from  Newburyport  for  the  mouth  of  the 
Kennebec  river,  on  their  way  to  Quebec.-*  Caleb  Haskell, 
who  accompanied  the  expedition,  gives  in  his  published  diary 
an  account  of  the  sufferings  and  hardships  endured  by  the 
troops  on  their  march  through  the  wilderness  and  in  their 
valiant,  but  unsuccessful,  attempt  to  capture  the  city. 

On  the  twenty-fourth  of  October,  all  the  able-bodied  men 
in  Newburyport  were  enrolled  in  four  military  companies,  and 
officers  were  appointed  to  arm  and  equip  the  companies  for 
active  service  in  the  field. s  The  heavy  artillery  guns,  owned 
by  the  town,  were  placed  in  charge  of  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas, 
Capt.  Joshua  Titcomb,  Capt.  William  Coombs,  Capt.  David 
Coates,  Capt.  William  Friend  and  Capt.  ^lichael  Hodge,  who 
were  authorized  to  enlist,  for  the  large  guns,  eight  men 
each,  and  for  the  smaller  ones,  six  men  each.^^  Jonathan 
Titcomb  was  appointed  colonel,  Jonathan  Jackson,  lieutenant- 
colonel,  John  Lowell,  major  or  adjutant,  and  Josiah  Smith, 
second  adjutant  of  the  Second  regiment,  which  included  the 
infantry  and  artillery  comjxmies  of  Amesbury,  Salisbury,  and 
Newburyport.^ 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  ( Revohitionaiy  Rolls),  volume  L\'I,  I'ajfc  89;  volume 
XI\'.  page  15;    and  llistorj^of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  602. 

■^  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  LA'I,  page  37. 

•'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  L\'I,  page  29. 

^  History  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  556-558. 

*  History  of  Newbur\'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  562. 

''  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  244. 

"  At  an  earlier  date,  this  regiment  was  composed  of  companies  from  the  towns 
of  Newbury,  Rowley,  Amesbury  and  Salisbury.       After  the  incirporation  of   New- 


90 


HIS  TOR  } '  OF  NE  WB  UR  \  'FOR  T 


Some  excitement  evidently  preceded  the  organization  of 
these  companies,  for  the  town  voted,  at  a  meeting  held  on  the 
day  above-named,  "  that  Mr  Will'"  Knap  have  the  thanks  of 
the  Town  for  striving  to  suppress  the  Tumult  that  was  in  the 
Town  last  night.'"' 

A  few  weeks  later  active  steps  were  taken  to  fit  out  several 
armed  vessels  for  the  protection  of  the  sea-coast,  and  men 
whose  terms  of  service  had  expired  were  earnestly  urged  to 
re-enlist  and  join  the  Continental  army,  then  in  camp  at 
Cambridge.  The  facts  and  incidents  connected  with  these 
and  other  important  measures  adopted  during  the  Revolution- 
ary war  have  been  described  in  a  previous  volume,^  but  some 
additional  facts,  with  the  names  of  the  officers  and  men  credited 
to  Newburyport  after  January  i,  1776,  will  be  found  in  the 
following  pages. 

A  company,  composed  of  men  from  Medford,  Chelsea, 
Haverhill,  Rowley,  Newbury  and  Newburyport,  was  in  Col. 
Benjamin  Tupper's  regiment  at  Cambridge  in  January,  1776.^ 
The  officers  of  the  company  were  as  follows  :  — 


Moses  Greenleaf, 

Captain, 

Newburyport. 

Silas  Clark, 

Lieutenant, 

Chelsea. 

David  Bradley, 

" 

Haverhill. 

Nehemiah  Emerson, 

Ensign, 

11 

Morrill  Whittier, 

Sergeant, 

Newburyport. 

William  Paige, 

" 

» 

Moses  Whittier, 

II 

u 

John  Lougee, 

II 

Haverhill. 

John  Kilborn, 

Corporal, 

Rowley. 

Richard   Hunnewell, 

II 

Newburjport. 

William  Poor, 

" 

11 

Thomas  Holliday, 

Drummer, 

II 

bur)'port,  Francis  Bernard,  governor  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  trans- 
ferred the  Newbury  and  Rowley  companies  to  the  Seventh  regiment,  leaving  the 
Amesbuiy,  Salisbury,  and  Newburyport  companies  in  the  Second  regiment. 

1  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  245. 

2  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  529-606. 

•'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XI,   page  71;    and  His- 
tory of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  605. 


SOLDIERS  IN  THE  REVOLUTIONARY  WAR 


91 


The  soldiers  who  served  in  the  ranks  of  the  company,  from 
Newburyport,  were  as  follows  : — 


Jonathan  Buswell, 
Paul  Coffin, 
Leonard  Cotton, 
Benjamin  Cotton, 
Makepeace  Colby, 
Oliver  Cromwell, 
James  Clout, 
David  Downing, 
Thomas  Hooper, 
Charles  Jarvis, 
John  Knight, 


Samuel  Lovell, 
Richard  Lovell, 
William  Stonman, 
Joseph  Stevens, 
Michael  Stockman, 
Oxford  Tufts, 
William  Williamson, 
Nathaniel  Willett, 
Daniel  Collins, 
Solomon  Aubin, 
Elipht  Griffin. 


At  a  special  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport, 
held  May  6,  1776.  Michael  Hodge  was  chosen  clerk.  "  He 
was  immediately  sworn  to  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  Duty 
by  the  Selectmen  present,  there  being  no  Justice  of  the  Peace 
in  the  Town."' 

After  the  evacuation  of  Boston,  March  17,  1776,  the 
Twelfth  Massachusetts  regiment,  under  the  command  of  Col. 
Moses  Little,  was  ordered  to  New  York,  and,  in  Major-gen- 
eral Greene's  division  of  the  Continental  army  took  an  active 
part  in  the  battles  of  Long  Island  and  Harlem  Heights.  The 
ofificers  of  the  regiment  were  as  follows  : — 


Moses  Litde, 
William  Henshaw, 
James  Collins, 
Dudley  Colman, 
John  Carr, 
Ehsha  Story, 
Oliver  Noble, 


Colonel : 

Lieutenant-colonel 
Major : 
Adjutant  ; 
Quartermaster ; 
Surgeon ; 
Chaplain. 


^'  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  254. 


g  2  ///S  TO  A'  i '  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

CAPTAINS.  FIRST    LIEUTENANTS. 

Jacob  Gerrish,  Amos  Atkinson, 

John  Baker,  Caleb  Lambson, 

Gideon   Parker,  Moses  Kent, 

Nathaniel  Wade,  Joseph  Hodgkins, 

Ezra  Lunt,  Stephen  Jenkins, 

Abraham  Dodge,  James  Lord, 

Nathaniel  Warner,  John  Burnham, 

Benjamin  Perkins.  Sylvanus  Smith. 

SECOND    LIEUTENANTS.  ENSIGNS. 

Samuel  Hughes,  Wm  Searl, 

Joseph  Fisk,  Sami  Proctor, 

Jared  Smith,  Benj.  Gould, 

John  Carr,  Wm  Littlefield, 

Nathaniel  Montgomery,  Nathl  Mitchell, 

Enoch  Parsons,  Wm  Story,' 

Daniel  Collins,  Jonathan  Woodman, 

Dudley  Colman.  Amos  Pearson. 

'  William  Storey,  born  in  that  part  of  Ipswich  which  is  now  within  the  limits  of 
the  town  of  Essex,  was  sergeant  in  Abraham  Dodge's  company  in  Col.  Moses  Lit- 
tle's regiment  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  ensign  in  the  same  regiment  at 
Lono- Island  and  Harlem  Heights.  In  1777,  he  was  lieutenant  and  adjutant  in 
Michael  Jackson's  regiment,  and  was  appointed  captain  of  a  company  in  that  regi- 
ment August  12,  1779.  He  married  Mary  Choate  of  Ipswich,  and  had  one  son, 
William,  who  died,  unmarried,  and  one  daughter,  Susan,  who  married  Moses  Fos- 
ter. For  his  second  wife  he  married  Lydia  Giddings,  and  two  or  three  years  later 
came  to  Newburj'port,  where  he  was  employed  as  captain  of  a  vessel  engaged  in 
the  West  India  trade.      He  died  at  sea,  near  Point  a  Petres,  Guadaloupe,  in  1800. 

Charles  W.  Storey,  son  of  William  and  Lydia  (Giddings)  Storey,  was  born  in 
Essex  December  20,  1786.  He  married  Ehzabeth  Burnham  in  September,  1815, 
and  removed  to  Claremont,  N .  H.,  where  his  oldest  son,  Charles  W.  Storey,  jr., 
was  born.  In  1823,  he  was  established  in  business  in  Newburyport,  and  purchased 
the  house  on  High  street  recently  owned  and  occupied  by  Nathaniel  N.  Jones,  esq., 
now  the  property  of  Mrs.  Clara  Erskine  (Clement)  Waters.  He  was  subsequently 
a  merchant  in  Havana.  He  died  Januaiy  8,  1845,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill 
cemetery,  Newburj'port. 

Charles  W.  Storey,  jr.,  born  in  Claremont,  N.  H.,  July  18,  1816,  graduated  at 
Harvard  college  in  1835,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Suffolk  bar  in  1840. 
He  married,  July  30,  1842,  Elizabeth  Moorfield  of  Hingham,  and  was  clerk  of  the 
Massachusetts  house  of  representatives  from  1846  to  1850.  He  resided  in  Roxbur}', 
which  is  now  a  part  of  Boston,  where  the  following-named  children  were  born : 
Moorfield,  born  March  19,  1845;  counsellor-at-law  in  Boston;  married,  January- 6, 
1870,  Anna  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Richard  D.  Cutts  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mariana  Teresa,  born  October  30,  1847.     Susan  Tappan,  born  November  i,  1 85 1. 


SOLDIERS  IX  THE  REVOLUTIOXA RY   IV AR 


93 


In  the  summer  of  1776,  a  company  of  matrosses,"  under 
the  command  of  Capt.  Edward  Wigglesworth,  and  a  company 
of  sea-coast  men,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Moses  Nowell, 
were  stationed  at  Pkim  island.^  The  muster  roll  giving  the 
names  of  the  men  who  served  in  these  two  companies  has 
not  been  found,  but  there  is  on  file  at  the  state  house  in  Bos- 
ton a  partial  list  of  the  men  in  Captain  Nowell's  company 
from  November  20,  1776,  to  January  i,  1777,  as  follows  : — ^ 


Moses  Pike, 
Daniel  Knight, 
Isaac  Knap, 
Benjamin  Newman, 
Enoch  Moody, 
Annis   Merrill, 
Richardson  Norton, 
Isaac  Davis, 


Second  lieut.  James  McDonald,  Private. 

Sergeant.  Enoch  Sweat,  " 

Corporal.  Mayo  Greenleaf,  " 

Private.  Benjamin  Toppan,  " 

"  Samuel  Newman,  " 

"  Moses  Cheaney,  " 

"  Richard  Jackman,  " 

"  tristam  pilsbury,  " 


One  company  of  si.\ty-four  men,  Elias  Davis,  captain, 
Greenleaf  Clarke,  first  lieutenant,  Moses  Pike,  second  lieu- 
tenant, all  of  Newburyport,  in  the  regiment  commanded  by 
Col.  Timothy  Pickering  of  Salem  ;  and  in  the  same  regiment 
one  company  of  sixty-seven  men,  Paul  Moody,  captain,  Caleb 
Kimball,  first  lieutenant,  John  Atkinson,  second  lieutenant, 
of  Newbury,  were  ordered  to  march  to  Danbury,  Connecticut, 
December  24,  1776.^ 

Capt.  Moses  Greenleaf  of  Newburyport  had  command  of 
a  company  in  Col.  Ebenezer  Francis'  battalion  at  Bennington, 
Vermont,  March  13,  1777.  The  following-named  citizens  of 
Newburyport  were  in  Captain  Greenleaf's  company  : — 5 


'  Soldiers  who  assisted  in  loading  and  firing  the  heavy  artillery  pieces. 

■^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  566  and  567  note. 

3  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  III,  page  31. 

*  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  XXXII,  page  283;  History  of  Newburj*  (Cur- 
rier), page  609. 

^  Massachusetts  Archives  (Kevolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XIX,  page  129.  The 
company  was  mustered  into  service  in  l)ecend)er,  1776. 


94 


iiisroR y  OF  NE IV B UR  yroR  r 


Morrill  VVhittier,  Sergeant. 

Thomas  HoUiday,  Drummer. 

John  Flynn,  Private. 

John  Stickney,  " 

John  Knight,  " 

James  Lindsey,  " 

James  Ward,  " 

John  Dexter,  " 

John  Askin,  " 

Charles  Jar\'is,  " 

Samuel  Lowell,  " 

Daniel  Price,  " 

James  Summers,  " 

James  Donnoly,  " 


William  Williamson,  Private. 

Jonathan  Buswell,  " 

Richard  Lowell,  " 

Makepeace  Colby,  " 

Leonard  Cotton,  " 

Oliver  Cromwell,  " 

Eliphalet  Griffin,  " 

John  Connoly,  " 

Robert  Pembroke,  " 

David  Roberts,  " 

William  Lewis,  " 

John  White,  " 

John  Ennis,  " 


In  Col.  Jonathan  Titcomb's  regiment,  at  Rhode  Island,  in 
1777,  the  following-named  persons  were  in  a  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Moses  Novvell : — ' 


John  Merrill, 

First  lieutenant, 

Salisbury. 

Charles  Weed, 

Second     " 

Amesbury. 

Joseph   Pike, 

Sergeant, 

Newburyport. 

Thomas  Green, 

u 

II 

John  Stevens, 

(( 

Salisbury. 

Peter  Bagley, 

II 

Amesbury. 

Amos  Poor, 

Corporal, 

Newburyport. 

William  Ellitt, 

u 

11 

Samuel  Eaton, 

II 

Salisbury. 

Jon  Hoyt, 

a 

Amesbury. 

Daniel  Pike, 

Drummer, 

Newbur3'port, 

Samuel  Stickney, 

Fifer, 

'< 

Hugh  Thomson, 

Private, 

II 

Hugh  Thomson,  jr.. 

" 

11 

Benjamn  Pike,  jr., 

11 

« 

Isaac  Frothenham, 

II 

II 

Caleb  Fott, 

11 

II 

Joseph  Rollings, 

11 

11 

Eliphlet  Rollings, 

II 

II 

Israel  Hardy, 

II 

i( 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary   Rolls),  volume  III,  page  21;    and  His- 
tory of  NevvVmry  (Currier),  page  611. 


SOLDIERS  IN  THE  REVOLUTIONARY  WAR 


95 


Thomas  Chene}', 
Humphrey  W.  Richards, 
Nehemiah  Choat, 
Nathaniel  Bradford  (?), 
Nathl  Johnson, 
Moses  Hobson, 
Jeremiah  Hobson, 
Benjamin  Whipple, 
Joseph  Dodge, 
Joseph  Brown, 
Benjn  Pike, 


Private. 


Newburvport. 


KKsIDENCE    ol     COl..     EDWAKU    WICGLESWORIH. 


Other  men  in  this  company  were  from  Newbury,  Amesbury 
and  SaHsbury. 

In  December,  1776,  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth,  having 
served  with  (Hstinction  in  the  army  under  Major-general  Ho- 
ratio Gates,  in  the  vicinity  of  Lake  Champlain  and  Lake 
George,  returned  to  Newburyport  and  raised,  in  Newbury  and 
other  towns  in  Essex  county,  a  regiment  which  was  mustered 
into  service  in  the  following  spring.' 

'  History  of  Newburviiort  (Currier),  volume  I.  paj^es  581-584. 


96 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  IV B  C  'R  YPOR  T 


In  June,  1777,  Dudley  Colman  of  Newbury  was  appointed 
lieutenant-colonel  of  Col.  Samuel  McCobb's  regiment,  which 
was  raised  in  the  counties  of  Cumberland  and  Lincoln  for  the 
expedition  to  the  river  St.  John,  in  Nova  Scotia,  but  in  the 
month  of  July  following  he  was  transferred  to  Col.  Edward 
Wigglesworth's  regiment,  in  place  of  Lieut. -col.  Nathan 
Fuller,  resigned.' 

In  Capt.  Daniel  Pillsbury's  company,  in  Colonel  Wiggles- 
worth's  regiment,  the  following-named  persons  were  credited 
to  Newburyport : — ^ 

Peter  Magee,  Jno  (?)  Jamson, 

Jacob  Brown,  John  Teling, 

Enoch  Foot,  Abijah  Ronney, 

George  Coffin,  James  Babb, 

Nathan  Whitting,  William  Hunniford, 

George   Huntress,  Nathi  Parker, 

Robin  Winder  (?),  Daniel  Eldridge, 

John  Cook,  Michael  Crosby. 

Thomas  Hopkins  of  Newburyport  was  in  Capt.  Nathaniel 
Alexander's  company,  and  John  Stone,  in  Capt.  Joseph 
McNall's  company,  in  the  same  regiment.^ 

In  1777,  the  following-named  persons  enhsted  in  Newbury- 
port for  three  years'  service  in  the  Continental  army  : — '* 

Jonathan  Buswell,  John  Carey, 

Amos  Brown,  George  Coffin, 

John  Brown,  Benjamin  Connors, 

Makepeace  Colby,  Ebenezer  Choat, 

Daniel  Collins,  James  Delany, 

Leonard  Cotton,  David  Duning, 

Paul  Coffin,  Jonathan  Day, 

John  Colony,  John  Davis, 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  CCXIV,  pages  143  and 
407;    and  volume  XI,  page  38. 

'^  Massachusetts  Archives  (  Revolutionary  Rolls),   volume  XI,  page  41. 

^  Massachusetts' Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XI,  pages  39  and  46. 

*  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XXVII,  pages  lil- 
134- 


SOLDIERS  IN  THE  REVOLUTIONARY   WAR 


97 


John  Ennis, 
John  Fielding, 
Enoch  Foot, 
Moses  George, 
Ehphalet  Griffith, 
Thomas  Goodale, 
Thomas  Giles, 
Moses  George, 
Thomas  Gould, 
Jeremiah  Goldsmith, 
John  Graham, 
Henry  Greenleaf, 
Thomas  Holliday, 
John  Harris, 
Richard  Honeywell, 
George   Huntress, 
William  Hanniford, 
Cust  Hemphill,' 
William  Harding, 
Joseph   Harbut, 
Charles  Jarvis, 
Pomp  Jackson,^ 
John   Knight, 
Stephen  Kent, 
John  Kiney, 
William  Lewis, 
Jonathan  Merrill, 
James  Mosely, 
John  Morris, 
William  McClenlic, 
David  Osgood, 
William  Pay, 


William  Poor, 
David  Pierce. 
Robert  Pembroke, 
James  Pinder, 
Samuel  Phips, 
Joseph  Putnam, 
David  Roberts, 
David  Rogers, 
John  Richards, 
John  Stickney, 
John  Stoneman, 
James  Summers, 
Michael  Stockman, 
Joseph  Stanwood, 
John  Stockman, 
John  Stockman,  jr., 
John  Stone, 
Oxford  Trask  (?), 
Peter  Thomas, 
Benjamin  Henry  Toppan, 
Morrill  Whicher, 
William  Williamson, 
Moses  Whicher, 
John  White, 
Nathaniel  Willet, 
James  Ward, 
Moses  Woodman, 
Nathan  Whitney, 
Stephen  Wyatt, 
Joseph  Willis, 
Benjamin  Wattel. 


In  a  certificate,  acknowledged  February  i6,  1778,  before 
Nicholas  Pike,  justice  of  the  peace,  the  names  of  the  men 
who  had  enlisted,  previous  to  that  date,  for  three  years,  were 

'  Probably  a  slave  named  "Cuff,"  owned  by  David  Ileniphill.  History  of 
Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  585. 

"  June  19,  1776,  [onathan  lackson,  a  wealthy  and  influential  citizen  of  Newbury- 
port, set  free  his  "  negro  man  I'c  nip.''  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume 
I,  page  71. 


98 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NEWB  UR  VPOR  7 


reported  by  Ralph  Cross,  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Newbury- 
port,  as  follows  : — ' 

In  Col.  Ebenezer  Francis'  res,"iment : — 


Capt.  Moses  Greenleaf, 
William  Pay, 
John  Stickney, 
William  Poor, 
John  P^ielding, 
Makepeace  Colby, 
Thomas  HoUiday, 
Jonathan  Merrill, 
John  Stonman, 
John  Arskins, 
Charles  Jarvis, 
John  Lindsey, 
Morrill  Whicher, 
Daniel  Collins, 
John   Knight, 
Paul  Coffin, 
Jonathan  Buswell, 
James  Delaney, 
James  Summers, 
Wilham  Williamson, 
Daniel  Price, 
Samuel  Lowell, 
Richard  Lowell, 
Leonard  Cotton, 


John  Harris, 
Moses  George, 
Eliphalet  Griffith, 
Solomon  Aubin, 
Moses  Whicher, 
Michael  Stanwood, 
John  Colony, 
William  Lewis, 
John  Ennis, 
David  Roberts, 
Robert  Pembroke, 
John  White, 
Nathaniel  Willet, 
Benjamin  Cotton, 
James  Ward, 
David  Osgood, 
Oxford  Trask  (?), 
John  Mason, 
Richard  Hunnywell, 
David  Downing, 
Moses  Woodman, 
John  Cary, 
Stephen  Kent. 


In  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth's  regiment  : — 


Enoch  Foot, 
George  Coffin, 
George  Huntress, 
Nathan  Whiting, 
John  King, 
Abijah  Kinney, 
James  Bab, 
Robert  Wade, 
Nathaniel  Parker, 


Daniel  Eldridge, 
William  Hanniford, 
John  Cook, 
John  Stone, 
Thomas  Giles, 
James  Pinder, 
Benjamin  H.  Toppan, 
Jonathan  Day, 
John  Stockman, 


Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  LIII,  page  197. 


SOLDIKKS  I.\    THE  KEVOLUTIOXARY   WAR  99 

Ebenezar  Choat,  Samuel  Easteibrooks, 

John  Stockman,  jr.,  Pomp  Jackson, 

John  Moniss,  Samuel  Phips, 

Amos  Brown,  Samuel  Greenleaf, 

David  Rogers,  Benjamin  Willett, 

Cast  Hemphill,  William  McClenlick, 

John  Brown,  Jeremiah  Goldsmith, 

Moses  George,  William  Harding, 

James  Mosely,  Joseph  Harbutt, 

Stephen  Wyatt,  John  Graham, 

Thomas  Gould,  Thomas  Greenleaf, 

James  Putnam,  John  Richards, 

Joseph  Willis,  John  Davis. 
John  Kenney, 

In  General  Washington's  body  guard  : — ' 

James  McKeen,  Michael  Caswell. 

Zebulon  Titcomb,  William  Conner  (.'*), 

Michael  Titcomb,  Dean  Osgood, 

Lemuel  Coffin,  Andrew  Newhall. 
John  Coffin, 

Subsequently,    Gen.   Jonathan  Titcomb    notified    Jonathan 
Jackson,  esq.,  of  some  additional  enlistments,  as  follows  : — ■" 

Newburvport  12  March  1778 
Dr  Sr 

This  serves  to  Inform  you  that  I  Have  Compleated  our  Quota  of  Men 
for  the  continental  army.  Should  be  Obliged  to  you  to  See  the  Follow- 
ing names  Entered  on  our  Return  that  is  Lodged  in  the  Secretary's 
Office,  and  am  with  Best  Regards  y  Hume  Servt 

JoN'A    Titcomb 

Thos  Hooper,  in  Capt.  Moses  Greenleaf's  company  of  Col.  Frances' 
Regiment. 

WiUiam  Cole      1 

Samuel   Reavcg    [  In    Capt    Ezra    Lunt's    company    of  Col.  Henly's 

John  Brown  j  Regiment. 

John  Mc'Man        | 

Hooper  is  of  this  Town,  the  Others  are  from  Machias  as  Capt.  Lunt 
informs  me. 

'    History-  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  598-601. 

'^  ^Iassachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  LI  1 1,  jiaj^e  204. 


lOO 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  I'R  YPOR  T 


In  answer  to  a  call  for  more  troops,  the  following-named 
soldiers  enlisted  in  Newburyport  and  served  in  the  Continen- 
tal army  for  nine  months  from  April  20,  1778  : — ' 

Benjamin  Webster,  John  Rosse, 

Samuel  Davis,  Joseph  Little, 

Jonathan  Huntoon,  Anthony  Boston, 

James  Bafford,  James  Davis. 

On  the  thirty-first  of  July  (1778),  the  Newburyport  Artil- 
lery company,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas, 
volunteered  to  serve  for  two  months  in  Rhode  Island,  under 
General  Sullivan.  This  company  was  in  Gen.  Jonathan  Tit- 
comb's  brigade  at  the  battle  near  Newport,  on  the  eighth  of 
August.-  Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler,  chaplain  of  the  brigade, 
wrote  in  his  diary  as  follows  : — ^ 

August  4,  1778,  General  Titcomb  called  on  me  on  his  way  to  Rhode 
Island  and  invited  me  to  go  with  him  as  Chaplain  to  his  brigade  on  the 
present  expedition.     . 

August  7tli  (Friday)  Preparing  to  set  out  for  Rhode  Island  to-mor- 
row.     .     .     . 

August  lotii  (Monday)  This  morning  I  crossed  on  to  Rhode  Island 
and  joined  General  Titcomb's  Brigade.  Dined  with  him  and  a  number 
of  gentlemen  on  the  ground  abroad,  not  having  any  quarters.  Slept  this 
night  in  the  officer's  room  at  the  barracks  in  the  fort  taken  up  by  Colonel 
Wade.     .     .      . 

August  23''d  (Lord's  Day)  E.xpected  to  preach  and  just  prepared  to 
go  up  to  the  brigade  when  the  General  received  a  letter  from  General 
Sullivan  informing  him  that  the  French  fleet  was  so  disastered  that  they 
could  by  no  means  afford  us  any  assistance,  but  were  gone  to  Boston  to 
refit.  .  .  .  This  unexpected  desertion  of  the  fleet,  which  was  the 
mainspring  of  the  expedition,  cast  a  universal  gloom  on  the  army  and 
threw  us  all  into  consternation.  Our  most  sanguine  hopes  were  cropped 
in  the  bud,  and  we  expected  immediate  orders  to  move  off  the  ground. 
This  prevented  the  brigade's  meeting  for  religious  services. 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XWIII,  page  153. 
'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  285-287. 
'  Life  of  Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler,  volume  I,  pages  65-70. 


SOLDIERS  IN   I  III:  REVOI.UTIONAKY   WAR  joi 

August  twenty-ninth,  the  army  retreated  to  Butt's  hill,  and 
the  next  day  the  expedition  was  abandoned  and  the  troops 
were  allowed  to  return  home. 

In  the  month  of  February  following,  at  the  request  of  the 
committee  of  correspondence  and  safety  of  Newburyport,  the 
General  Court  passed  the  following  order : — 

State  of  Massachusetts  Bay 

In  Council  February  (8,  1779. 
Ordered  that  the  Board  of  War  be  and  they  hereby  are  directed  to 
deHver  the  Honble  Benjamin  Greenleaf,  Esq.,  or  to  his  order,  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  pound  weight  of  Musket  Ball  and  fifty  weight  of  Gun 
Powder  for  the  use  of  the  town  of  Newburyport,  and  to  cause  the  same 
to  be  conveyed  there;  it  being  for  a  like  Quantity  borrowed  by  order  of 
the  Council  for  Capt.  Jedediah  Preble,  Jun.,  for  the  Eastern  Indians,  as 
appears  by  said  Preble's  receipt  dated  November  4,  1778.' 

For  the  protection  of  the  sea-coast,  Gen.  Jonathan  Titcomb 
applied  to  the  governer  and  council  for  additional  military 
supplies,  and  in  answer  to  his  request  the  following  order  was 
adopted : — 

In  Council  May  5,  1779.  Read  and  Ordered  that  the  Board  of  War 
be  and  they  hereby  are  directed  to  deliver  Brigade  Jonathan  Titcomb 
one  Brass  Field  piece  with  the  Carriage  and  appurtenances,  40  Cannon- 
ade Shott,  80  round  of  cartridges  field  &  40  round  shott  for  the  Com- 
pany of  Matrosses  in  the  Town  of  Newbury  Port, — he  to  be  accountable 
for  the  same.- 


A  copy  of  the  above  ortler  was  sent   to   General  Titcomb, 
who  replied  as  follows  : — 

1  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  (T>XX\',  page  169. 
-  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  CLXXV,  page  296. 


102 


HIS7  OK  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YTOR  7 


Boston  4  May  1779 
Gentlemen 

I  Have  Dr  Sir  your  Honors   Order   o\\    the    Board    of  War    for    one 
Brass  P^ield  Piece  with  the   Carnage   &   Materials   thereunto  belonging 
for  the  Company  of  Matrosses  in  the  Town  of  Newbury    Port  &  your 
Petitioner  to  be  accountable  for  the  same  and  am  with  Due  Respect 
Your  Honors  humble  servant 

JO^'     TiTCOMB,    B.    G.' 
To  the  Honbie  the  Council  of  the  Massachusetts  State 


RESIDENCE   OK   CEN.    JONATHAN   TITCOMB. 

'  lonathan,  son  of  Josiah  and  Martha  Titcomb,  was  born  in  Newbury  September 
12,  1727.  He  married  Mary  Dole  May  9,  1751.  She  died  September  6,  1774, 
aged  forty-three,  and  two  years  later  he  married  Sarah  Stedman.  Jonathan  and 
vSarah  (Stedman)  Titcomb  had  several  children.  Sarah,  a  daughter,  born  October 
24,  1777,  married  Dr.  Lawrence  Sprague  December  13,  1S04.  She  continued  to 
reside  in  Newburyport  until  her  death,  in  July,  1816.  Hannah  Dummer,  another 
daughter,  born  in  1780,  died  April  13,  1786. 

Jonathan  Titcomb  bought  a  lot  of  land,  in  1761,  on  the  westerly  side  of  Merri- 
mack street,  bounded  on  the  northwest  by  land  belonging  to  Benjamin  Frothing- 
ham  and  afterwards  to  Timothy  Dexter  (Essex  Deeds,  book  112,  leaf  114,  book 
147,  leaf  33,  book  160,  leaf  123).  On  this  lot  of  land,  near  the  corner  of 
Merrimack  and  Green  streets,  Mr.  Titcomb  probably  built  the  dwelling  house  now 
standing  there.  Seventy-five  or  eighty  years  later  the  house  was  raised  six  or  eight 
feet  above  the  street  level  and  a  brick  basement  added,  as  shown  in  the  above 
half-tone  print. 


SOLDIERS  IN   77/1:   REVOI  UTIOXAKY  WAR  103 

Two  months  later,  the  inhabitants  of  Ncwburyport  were 
busy  arming  and  equipping  vessels  for  the  expedition  to 
Penobscot  river.'  Although  disheartened  by  the  disastrous 
result  of  that  expedition,  they  responded  promptly  to  the  call 
for  more  men  to  serve  in  the  army  in  the  vicinity  of  New 
York,  John  Cushing,  muster-master,  reported,  December  8, 
1779,  the  following  enlistments  in  Newburyport  for  nine 
months'  service  in  the  Continental  army : — ^ 

Thomas  Eliot,  Benjamin  Dresser, 

Benjamin  Bagley,  Samuel  Newman, 

John  Welch,  Hugh  Felton, 

Andrew  Labenta,  Cicero  Haskell, 

John  Mullins,  Isaac  Johnson,  4th, 

Thomas  Wood,  Thomas  Beck, 

Thomas  Wood,  jr.,  Samuel  Ober, 

James  Kavan,  Abraham  Dodge, 

William   Follansbee,  Joshua  Pettingell, 

Nathan  Haskell,  John  Thompson, 

William  Noyes,  jr.,  John  Bostman. 

In  1780,  the  following-named  persons  enlisted  in  Newbury- 
port for  six  months  : — ^ 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionaiy  war,  Mr.  Titcomb  was  one  of  the  select- 
men of  Newburyport,  and  served  for  several  years  in  that  capacity.  Octol  er  24, 
1775,  he  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  Second  regiment,  composed  of  men  from 
Salisbury,  Amesljurj'  and  Newburj'port.  In  1776,  he  was  authorized  to  raise  and 
muster  into  service  two  militaiy  companies  for  the  defence  of  the  sea-coast,  and  in 
July,  1778,  he  was  appointed  brigadier  by  the  president  and  council  of  the  province 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  served  under  General  Sullivan  in  Rhode  Island.  From 
1 778  until  1 783  he  was  a  representative  to  the  Cieneral  Court,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1786,  but  resigned  before  completing  his  seventh  term.  He  was  naval  ofificer  in  the 
custom  house  at  Newburyport  from  1 784  to  1 785  and  from  1 787  to  1 789  inclusive. 

He  died  March  10,  181 7.  His  real  and  personal  estate,  not  otherwise  disposed 
of,  was  given  by  will  to  his  widow,  for  her  sole  use  and  benefit  during  her  natural 
life,  and,  after  her  decease,  to  the  chilih-en  of  his  daughter,  Sarah  ('I'itcomb) 
Sprague. 

1  Histor)-  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  590-595. 

2  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XXXII,  page  282. 

•'' Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  X.W'II.  page  7,  and 
volume  IV,  pages  180  and  18 1. 


ro4 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NEWBURY  'FOR  T 


Jonathan  Beck, 
Thomas  Beck, 
Moses  George, 
Stephen  Smith, 
Josiah  Meloon, 
Jeremiah  Smith, 
Daniel  Gale, 
Ezekiel  Sterns, 
Eliphalet  Galley, 
James  Norris, 
Jonathan  Calley, 
Caleb  Fogg, 
George  Saunders, 
Samuel  Dudley, 
Moses  George  (?), 
Moses  Titcomb, 
William  Murray, 
David  Collier, 
Jeremiah  Spencer, 
Jonathan  Prescott, 


Samuel  Cram, 
Jonathan  Sayward, 
John  Woodbury, 
Michael  Pike, 
Ebenezer  Haines, 
Enoch  Foot, 
Benjamin  Woodbury, 
James  Woodbury, 
Samuel  Webber, 
Oliver  Richards, 
Nathaniel  Hunt, 
James  Smith, 
John  Mann, 
John  Parker  Wilson, 
Nathan  Chapman, 
Cicero   Haskell, 
Oxford  Task  (?), 
Leonard  Cotton, 
Isaac  Pinkham, 
John  Stone. 


In  the  enlistment  of  men  under  the  resolve  adopted  by  the 
General  Court  December  2,  1780,  the  following-named  per- 
sons were  credited  to  Newburyport : — ' 


Robert  McKnight, 
John  Davis, 
Jonathan  Sayward, 
Samuel  Allen  Andrews, 
James  Cord  (?), 
John  Webber, 
David  Downing, 
Benjamin  Calley, 
James  Hodgkins, 


James  Hamilton, 
Peter  Spamins  (?), 
John  Donovan, 
David  Colbar, 
Prince  Tracy, 
David  Holt, 
Benjamin  Cotton, 
David  Downing, 
James  Kervins. 


In  Capt.  Joshua  French's  company,  in  Lieut. -col.  Enoch 
Putnam's  regiment  of  three  months  men,  raised  under  a  re- 
solve adopted  June  30,  1781,  by  the  General  Court,   to  rein- 


^  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary  Rolls),  volume  XXVTII,  page  i8i. 


SOl./nr.RS  !N   THE  REVOLUTIOyAKY   WAR 


105 


force  the  Continental  army,  the  following-named  persons  were 
from  Newburyport : — ' 


Joshua  Davis,  i^t  Lieutenant. 

Timothy  Rolfe,  is'  Sergeant. 

Simon  Noyes,  2"d         " 

John  Stevens,  y^         " 
Humphrey  Nichols,  4111         " 

Annis  Merrill,  i^t  Corporal. 

James  Jackson,  2"d        " 

William  Pecker,  3i"d         " 

Jesse  Spofford,  F^ifer. 

John  Simson,  Private. 

Adam  Simson,  " 

Simeon  Chase,  " 

William  Perry,  " 

Stephen  Carlton,  " 

John  Furgerson,  " 

Jacob  Marsh,  " 

James  Furgerson,  " 

David  Hale,  " 

Edward  Tenney,  " 


Josiah  Coburn,  Private. 

Paul  McPharson,  " 

William  McFarland,  " 

James  McFarland,  " 

William  Malloon,  " 

Benjamin  Davis,  " 

John  Cartels,  " 

William  Tapley,  " 

Benjamin  Mulliken,  " 

John  Dow,  " 

John  Butler,  " 

John  Murry,  " 

Amos  Kemp,  " 

George  Poor,  " 

Benjamin  Bishop,  " 

Isaac  Frothingham,  " 

Jesse ,  " 

Samuel  Parker,  " 


The  following-named  officers  and  men  from  Newburyport 
were  in  service  in  Rhode  Island  from  July  to  December,  1781, 
in  the  company  of  Capt.  John  Robinson  of  Boxford,  in  the 
regiment  under  the  command  of  Col.  William  Turner : — ^ 


Daniel  Carlton,  Sergeant. 
Samuel  Berker,  Corporal. 
John  Riley,  Private. 


Joseph  Mitchell,  Private. 

Jonathan  Greenough,         " 
Edward  Milliken,  " 


After  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  at  Yorktown,  October 
19,    1 78 1,  no  further  efforts  were  made  to  secure  enlistments, 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  ( Revolutionar)-  Rolls),  volume  XIX,  page  43. 

-  Massachusetts  Archives  (Revolutionary'  Rolls),  volume  III,  page  1115. 

For  a  full  and  complete  list,  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  of  the  men  who  en- 
listed in  the  army  from  1775  to  1785,  the  reader  is  referred  to  "  The  Soldiers  and 
Sailors  of  the  Revolutionary  War,"  published  in  several  volumes  by  order  of  the 
General  Court. 


1 06  ^^S  7  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

although    the  preHminary  treaty  of    peace    was    not    agreed 
upon  at  Paris  until  November  30,  1782. 

On  the  seventeenth  of  March,  1783,  a  committee  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Massachusetts  senate,  then  in  session  at  the 
old  state  house  in  Boston,  to  prepare  a  letter  to  be  signed  by. 
the  president  of  the  senate  and  speaker  of  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives and  sent  to  the  commander-in-chief  of  the  Amer- 
ican army.  No  further  reference  to  this  letter  has  been 
found  in  the  court  records,  but  General  Washington's  reply 
reads  as  follows  : — ' 

To  Saml  Adams,    President   of  the    Senate,    &    Tristram    Dalton, 
Speaker  of  the  Gen'  Assembly  of  Mass. 

Head  Quarters  29111  March  1783. 
Gentlemen, 

I  have  the  honour  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  joint  letter  of 
the  1 8th  instant.  Happy,  inexpressibly  happy,  in  the  certain  intelligence 
of  a  general  Peace,  which  was  concluded  on  the  2ot'i  January,  1  feel 
an  additional  pleasure  in  reflecting  that  this  glorious  event  will  prove  a 
sure  means  to  dispel  the  fears  expressed  by  your  Commonwealth  for 
their  North  Eastern  Boundary  ;  That  Territory  being  by  the  Treaty  se- 
cured to  the  United  States,  in  its  full  extent. 

I  have  to  thank  you  for  doing  me  the  justice  to  believe  that  my  atten- 
tion to  all  parts  of  the  United  States  is  extended  in  proportion  to  the 
magnitude  of  the  object,  and  that  no  partial  considerations  have  any  in- 
fluence on  my  conduct.  You  will  permit  me.  Gentlemen,  on  this  occa- 
sion, to  express  my  warmest  congratulations  to  you,  to  the  Senate  and 
Representatives  of  your  Commonwealth,  and  thro"  them  to  all  its  good 
citizens,  whose  prompt  exertions  in  the  general  cause  have  contributed 
largely  towards  the  attainment  of  that  great  Prize  for  which  the  United 
States  have  so  long  and  successfully  contended.      I  am,  &c. 

G.  Washington. 

March  25,  1783,  the  inhabitants  of  Boston  voted  to  cele- 
brate the  anniversary  of  the  Declaration    of  American  Inde- 

'  Massachusetts  Archives,  volume  CCIV,  pages  342-343;  Spark's  Collection  of 
Washington's  Letters  (Harvard  University  library),  65,  volume  4,  page  75;  Life  of 
Samuel  Adams  (William  V.  Wells),  volume  IH,  page  174.  Tristram  Dalton,  one 
of  the  representatives  from  Xewburyport,  was  speaker  of  the  house  in  17S3. 


SOLDIERS  f.V   7 /IE  REVOLUTIONAKY   WAR  107 

pendence  on  the  fourth    of  July   annually,'    and  the  General 
Court  passed  the  following  resolution   July  2,  1783: — 

Resolved  that  the  Le.i^islature  preceded  b}-  the  Governor  the  Lieuten- 
ant Governor  and  the  Council  of  the  State,  if  his  Excellency  and  their 
honors  shall  see  cause  to  attend,  will  on  friday  next  at  ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  that  day  being  the  Anniversary  of  the  Independence  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  repair  to  some  suitable  place  for  public  wor- 
ship and  there  in  a  solemn  and  public  manner  render  thanks  to  Almighty 
God  for  his  great  and  unmerited  mercy  to  these  States  in  supporting 
them  through  a  dangerous,  long  and  expensive  war,  in  raising  them  to 
rank  among  the  nations  of  the  Earth,  in  establishing  them  as  an  inde- 
pendent Republic,  in  finally  bestowing  on  them  the  long  wished  for 
blessing  of  a  cessation  of  hostilities,  and  in  affording  them  reason  to 
hope  that  they  will  speedily  receive  a  deiinite  treaty  of  Peace.  And  also 
to  implore  the  divine  benediction  on  the  Government  and  public  con- 
cerns of  these  States.  And  the  Governor  and  Council  are  requested  to 
order  such  preparation  in  the  Senate  Chamber,  at  twelve  o'clock  on  that 
day,  as  hath  been  usual  on  such  occasions,  and  that  the  Governor  would 
direct  such  demonstrations  of  joy,  by  the  discharge  of  Cannon  &c.,  as 
he  shall  think  proper. - 

A  few  days  later,  the  following  letter,  signed  by  Samuel 
Adams,  president  of  the  senate,  and  Tristram  Dalton,  speaker 
of  the  house  of  representatives,  was  sent  to  General  Wash- 
ington congratulating  him  on  the  return  of  peace : — 

Co.MMONWEALTH    OF    MASSACHUSETTS. 

Boston,  July  10,  1783. 
Sir, 

The  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  in  General  Court  assembled  take  this  opportunity  of  con- 
gratulating you  on  the  happy  return  of  Peace.  Your  Excellency  we 
are  assured  will  join  with  us  in  the  warmest  Expression  of  Gratitude  to 
the  Supreme  Ruler  of  the  Universe  under  whose  Influence  and  Direc- 
tion the  Struggles  of  a  Virtuous  and  free  People  have  terminated  in  a 
Revolution  which  excites  the  admiration  of  the  world.  Guided  by  His 
all  wise  Providence  your  country  early   tixed   her  eyes    upon    you  :    and 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),   volume  I,  page  429. 

"  Massachusetts  Archives  (Court  Records),   volume  XTA',  pages  74  and  75. 


1 08  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  T 

confiding  in  tliose  eminent  qualities  whicli  you  possessed    appointed  you 
to  the  command  of  her  armies. 

The  Wisdom  of  your  Conduct  in  the  discharge  of  that  important 
Trust  has  given  a  compleat  Sanction  to  the  Appointment  and  crowned 
the  most  heiglitened  Expectations.  In  every  Stage  of  the  arduous  Con- 
flict what  trying  scenes  have  you  not  passed  through  !  What  Hardships 
have  you  not  endured  !  What  dangers  have  you  not  encountered  !  May 
Heaven  reward  your  unremitted  Exertions  !  May  you  long  live,  beloved 
by  a  grateful  Country  «&;  partaking  largely  in  the  Enjoyment  of  those  in- 
estimable Blessings  which  you  have  been  so  eminently  instrumental  in 
securing  for  us.  While  Patriots  shall  not  cease  to  applaud  that  sacred 
attachment  which  you  have  constantly  manifested  to  the  Rights  of  Citi- 
zens, too  often  violated  by  men  in  arms,  your  military  virtues  and  achieve- 
ments will  be  deeply  recorded  in  the  breasts  of  your  Country-men  and 
their  Posterity,  and  make  the  brightest  Page  in  the  History  of  Mankind. 

We  are  with  every  sentiment  of  Respect  &  Esteem, 

In  the  name  &  behalf  of  the  General  Court, 

Your  Excellency's  most  obedient  &  very  humbe  servts, 
•S.  Adams,  Presidt  of  the  Senate. 
Tristram  Dalton,   Spk  of  the  House  of  Reps. 
To  His  Excelly  Gen  Washington.' 

The  Federal  constitution,  proposed  by  the  convention  that 
assembled  in  Philadelphia  in  1787,  was  accepted  by  the  state 
of  Massachusetts  on  the  sixth  of  February,  1788.  The  event 
was  celebrated  in  Newburyport  by  the  firing  of  cannon,  the 
ringing  of  bells  and  other  public  expressions  of  joy.  Confi- 
dence in  the  stability  of  the  government  was  strengthened, 
and  the  claims  of  the  revolutionary  soldiers  were  no  longer 
considered  valueless. 

Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler  of  Hamilton,  Mass.,  having  organ- 
ized a  company  for  the  settlement  of  the  town  of  Marietta,  at 
the  mouth  of  the  Muskingum  river,  in  Ohio,  Edward  Harris 
of  Newburyport  became  interested  in  the  company,  and  was 
evidently  a  shareholder  as  early  as  March,  1788.-  The  fol- 
lowing advertisement,  published  in  the  Essex  Gazette  on  the 

'  Massachusetts  Archives  (Court  Records),  volume  XLV,  page  92. 
'^  Life  of  Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler,  volume  I,  pages  3S4  and  385. 


SOLDIERS  IN   THE  KEVOLUTIONAKY   WAR 


109 


nineteenth  of  that  month,  indicates  that  he  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  promoting  the  interests  of  the  company  and  in  buy- 
ing Continental  securities  for  cash  : — 

Bounty  Lands. 

Any  Officers  or  Soldiers  who  are  intitled  to  Bounty  Lands  for  their 
Services  in  the  late  Continental  Army  may  hear  of  a  method  by  wliich 
they  may  speedily  realize  their  interest  if  they  inquire  of  Edmund  Harris 
of  this  town. 

Said  Harris 

Will  give  Hard  Money 

for  a  few 

Continental  Paper 

Securities. 

Newburyport,   March  19,1788. 

Although  fifty  years  of  age,  Edward  Harris  removed  with 
his  family  to  Ohio  in  1789,  and  afterwards  to  Kentucky.  He 
was  postmaster  from  July  i,  1797.  to  October  i,  1802,  in  the 
town  of  Washington,  county  of  Mason,  Kentucky,  and  died 
there  April  6,  1825.' 

On  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence, July  4,  1826,  the  Newburyport  Artillery  company,  with 
other  military  and  charitable  organizations,  escorted  through 
the  principal  streets  of  the  town  the  following-named  officers 
and  soldiers  who  had  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  : — ^ 

M-'iKvaicl  H arris  and  his  Ancestors,  a  pamphlet,  by  William  Preston  lohnston, 
paj^es  5  and  6 ;  The  Johnstons  of  Salisbury,  by  William  Preston  Johnston,  pages  55-60. 

Abigail,  daughter  of  Edward  Harris,  married  Dr.  John  Johnston  of  Washing- 
ton, Kentucky,  in  1794.  Albert  .Sidney  Jcjhnston,  a  distinguished  general  in  the 
Confederate  army,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh  April  6,  1862,  was  the 
youngest  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Abigail  (Harris)  Johnston.  His  oldest  son,  Wil- 
liam Preston  Johnston,  was  aide-de-camp,  with  the  rank  of  colonel,  on  the  staff  of 
Jefferson  Davis,  president  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  was  captured  with  him, 
in  Georgia,  at  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  confined  for  several  months  in  Fort 
Delaware.  After  his  release  he  was  jiresidenl  of  the  .State  university  in  Louisiana, 
and  subsetjuently  president  of  the  Tulanc  university  in  New  Orleans.  He  died  at 
Lexington,  \irginia,  July  16,  US99. 

'^  Newburyport  Herald,  July  II,  1S26. 


HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB I  ^R  )  I'OR  T 


Edward  Wigglesworth, 
Daniel  Foster, 
Amos  Pearson  , 
Benjamin  Gould, 
Lemuel  Coffin, 
Philip  Johnson, 
Abraham  Dodge, 
Thomas  Lunt, 
Richard  Loring, 
Richard  Lovering, 
John   Libbey, 
WiUiam  W.  Perry, 
William  Russ, 
Edward  Toppan, 
Jonathan  Woodman, 
John  Brett, 
John  Cook, 
Philip  Bagley, 
Jeremiah  Blanchard, 
Samuel  Shaw, 
Moses  Chase, 
Isaiah   Ilsley, 
Elias  Pike, 
Gideon  Woodwell, 
Daniel  Flanders, 
Stephen  Toppan, 
William  Huntington, 
Amos  Carleton, 
Amos  Norton, 
Joseph  Pike, 
Richard  Short, 
Samuel  Follansbee, 
Jonathan  Lambert, 
Benjamin  Poor, 


Timothy  Curtis, 
Oliver  Goodrich, 
Timothy  Gordon, 
Nathaniel  Pearson, 
David  Pearson, 
Timothy  Poor, 
Caleb  Kimball, 
Samuel  Balch, 
Benjamin  Davis, 
Aaron  Rogers, 
Joseph  Floyd, 
Nathaniel  Howard, 
Moses  Short, 
Joseph  Stanwood, 
Elias  Cook, 
John  Pafford, 
John  Bootman, 
David  Dole, 
Moses  Somerby, 
Joshua  Pettingell, 
Farnham  How, 
Jacob  Fowler, 
Samuel  Eaton, 
Moses  Pike, 
Jacob  Currier, 
Nathaniel  Ladd, 
Ezekiel  Merrill, 
Daniel  Adams, 
Nathaniel  Beck, 
Jacob  Brown, 
Joseph  Mootrey, 
Jacob  Hodgkins, 
Thomas  Stanwood. 


The  following-named  soldiers  and  sailors  served  in  the  army 
or  navy  during  the  Revolutionary  war  and  are  buried  in 
Newburyport. 

In  the  Sawyer  Hill  burying  ground,  on  the  road  from 
Storey  avenue  to  the  mill  at  the  mouth  of  Artichoke  river  : — 


SOLDIERS  IX   THE  KEVOI.l'TIONARY  WAR 

Col.  Moses  Little,  Samuel  Harllett, 

Joshua  Little,  Samuel  Chase, 

Henry  Merrill,  Nathaniel  Emery. 
Caleb  Moody, 

In  the  Belleville  cemetery,  on  Storey  avenue  : —  • 

Amos  Atkinson,  Farnum  Howe, 

John  Atkinson,  John  Morgaridge, 

Daniel  Flanders,  John  Moulton, 

Timothy  Gordon,  Nathan  Merrill, 

Jonathan  Harris,  Jacob  Merrill. 

In  St.  Paul's  churchyard  : — 

Daniel  Foster,  William   Farris. 
John  Tracy, 

In  Oak  Hill  cemetery  : — 

Edward  Toppan. 

In  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground  :  — 

John  Brett,  Joseph  McHard, 

Ofifin  Boardman,  3"',  Aaron  Pardee, 

Moses  Brown,  Benjamin  Perkins, 

John  Balch,  Timothy  Palmer, 

Ralph  Cross,  Josliua  Pillsbury, 

Elias  Cook,  Samuel  Pillsljurv, 

Lemuel  Coffin,  Joseph  IMummer, 

Thomas  Cluston,  Daniel  Somerbv, 

Caleb  Haskell,  Moses  Somerby, 

Charles  Herbert,  Enoch  Titcomb, 

Eleazer  Johnson,  Jonathan  Tiicomb, 

Anthony  Knapp,  Stephen  Toppan, 

Jacob  Knapp,  John  Tappan, 

Michael  Little,  Joseph  W'hitmore. 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  URYPORT 


In  the  New  Hill  burying  ground 

Philip  Bagley, 
John  Cook, 
Aaron  Davis, 
Joseph  Davis, 
Abraham  Dodge, 
Benjamin  Gould, 
Nehemiah  Haskell, 


William  Knapp, 
George  Norton, 
William  Perry, 
Samuel  Spring, 
Michael  Titcomb, 
Jonathan  Woodman. 


In  the  burying  ground   on   High   street,    near  the  head  of 
Marlborough  street,  in  Newbury  : — 


Silas  Adams, 
Paul  Adams, 
Moses  Clark, 
Thomas  Evans, 
Enoch  Hale, 
Isaiah   Ilsley, 
Joseph  Jaques, 
Parker  Jaques, 
James  Knight, 
Paul  Lunt, 
Daniel  Lunt, 
Richard  Lunt, 
Nathaniel  Little, 
Nathaniel  Little,  jr., 


Amos  Little, 
Samuel  Moody, 
John  Moody, 
John  Noyes, 
Amos  Noyes, 
Benjamin  Pettingell, 
Nathan  Poor, 
Moses  Short, 
Andrew  Stickney, 
William  Stickney, 
Amos  Stickney, 
Richard  Smith, 
Wigglesworth  Toppan, 
Gideon  Wood  well. 


NEWBURVPORT    ARTILLERY     COMPANY. 

October  24,  1775,  the  heavy  artillery  guns  owned  by  the 
town  of  Newburyport  were  placed  in  charge  of  Capt,  Thomas 
Thomas,  Capt.  Joshua  Titcomb,  Capt.  William  Coombs,  Capt. 
David  Coates,  Capt.  William  Friend,  and  Capt.  Michael 
Hodge,  who  were  authorized  to  enlist  eight  men  for  each 
of  the  large  guns,  and  six  men  for  the  smaller  ones.'  Soon 
after  that  date  the  Newburyport  Artillery  company  was  prob- 
abl)'  organized.     Thomas  Thomas  was  chosen   captain,   David 


History  of  Xewhuryport  (Currier),  volume  I,  paj^e  562. 


XEWBUKYFORT  ARrH.LEKY  COMPAXY  113 

Coates,  captain-lieutenant,  Michael  Hodge,  first  lieutenant, 
and  Samuel  Newhall,  second  lieutenant.  In  1778,  the  com- 
pany served  for  two  months  in  Col.  Jonathan  Titcomb's  regi- 
ment under  General  Sullivan  in  Rhode  Island.' 

In  1785,  Michael  Hodge  was  chosen  captain,  and  in  1786 
all  the  military  companies  in  Ncwburyport  were  supplied 
"with  drums,  fifes  and  collours  at  the  expense  of  the  Town."-" 
March  20,  1787,  a  special  committee  was  appointed  at  an 
adjourned  town  meeting  to  consider  what  action,  if  any, 
should  be  taken  in  regard  to  the  eleventh  article  in  the 
warrant,  which  read  as  follows  : — 

To  see  if  the  Town  will  give  Capt  Michael  Hodge,  commander  of  the 
Company  of  Artillety  belonging  to  this  Town,  liberty  to  erect  a  gun 
house  on  the  Town's  land  near  the  Rev.  Mr.  Gary's  meetinghouse,  or  on 
any  other  lot  of  land  belonging  to  the  Town,  suitable  for  the  reception 
of  the  Artillery  pieces  and  stores  &c  belonging  to  said  artillery,  and 
whether  they  will  giv^e  their  consent  that  the  materials  of  the  present  Gun 
house  should  be  taken  and  appropriated  for  the  building  of  a    new  one.' 

Rev.  Mr.  Gary's  meeting-house  was  then  standing  in  the 
centre  of  what  is  now  known  as  Market  square.  The  com- 
mittee appointed  to  consider  the  petition  for  a  new  gun  house, 
reported,  on  the  second  day  of  April,  in  favor  of  erecting  a 
building  suitable  for  that  purpose  "  in  the  middle  ship  yard," 
near  the  place  afterward  selected  as  the  site  of  the  market 
house.-*  No  definite  action,  however,  was  taken  until  March 
18,  1788,  when  the  town  voted  to  grant  the  petitioners  leave 
to  erect  a  gun  house  "  on  Land  adjoining  Frog  pond  for  the 
purpose  of  housing  the  state  artillery,"  and  the  selectmen 
were  desired  "  to  look  out  the  place."5  The  building  was 
probably  erected  during  the  following  summer  at  the  south- 
easterly end  of  the  pond,  where  it  remained  for  nearly  a  century. 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  585-5S7. 

2  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  I,  page  454. 
^  Newbur)-pnrt  Town  Hecords,  volume  I,  page  476. 
''  \ewl)urypiiit  'i'oun  Records,  volume  I,  page  483. 
"  Newburyport  i'liwu  Records,  volume  I,  jiage  509. 


114 


II]  S  7^0  K  ] '  OF  NE  WB I  'R  YPOK  T 


The  Federal  salute,  which  announced  the  arrival  of  Wash- 
ington in  Nevvburyport,  in  1789,  was  fired  by  the  artillery 
company,  and  the  various  political  and  patriotic  associations 
that  passed  through  the  principal  streets  of  the  town,  on  that 
occasion,  were  escorted  by  the  same  military  organization.  At 
a  later  date,  when  General  La  Fayette  visited  Newburyport, 
the  Artillery  company  and  the  Washington  Light  Infantry 
had  the  honor  of  escorting  the  distinguished  soldier  from  the 
town  of  Newbury  to  the  Tracy  house  on  State  street,  New- 
buryport. 

The  name  of  the  artillery  company  was  changed  to  the 
"Washington  Light  Guard"  August  5,  1844,  and  on  the 
twenty-third  of  September  following  the  company,  arrayed  in 
new  uniform,  armed  and  equipped  with  smooth-bore  muskets 
and  new  field  pieces,  celebrated  the  event  by  a  grand 
military  parade.  At  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the 
town  hall,  July  4,  1850,  the  Washington  Light  Guard  escort- 
ed the  selectmen,  orator  of  the  day,  fire  department,  trades- 
men, and  masonic  organizations  to  the  corner  of  Green  and 
Pleasant  streets,  where  an  appropriate  address  was  delivered 
by  Hon.  Caleb  Gushing. 

March  4,  1852,  the  name  of  the  company  was  again 
changed  to  the  Gushing  Guard,  in  honor  of  Caleb  Gushing, 
then  mayor  of  the  city  of  Newburyport,  which  name  it  re- 
tained until  the  organization  was  dissolved,  in  March,  1902, 
although  for  several  years  previous  to  that  date  it  was  official- 
ly known  as  Company  A,  Eighth  regiment,  M.  V.  M.' 

THE     GUN    HOUSE. 

The  land  at  the  southeasterly  end  of  Frog  pond,  on  which 
the  gun  house  was  erected  in  1788,  was  owned  by  the  town 

1  For  additional  facts  and  details  see  History  of  Newburyport  (Gushing),  pages 
72  and  73;  Newburyport  Herald,  June  25  and  July  g,  1858;  Historical  Sketch  by 
Hon.  David  L.  Withington,  published  in  the  [herald  October  22,  1875;  ^^  ^'^' 
dress  by  Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone,  delivered  before  the  ofiflcers  and  members  of  the 
Veteran  Artillery  Association,  published  in  the  Herald  May  17,  1877. 


THE  GUX  HOUSE 


1^5 


of  Newbury{x)rt,  but  the  labor  and  materials  used  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  building  were  paid  for  by  the  members  of  the 
artillery  company.  In  1836,  the  company  conveyed  all  its 
light,  title  and  interest  in  the  property  to  the  Commonwealth 
of  Massachusetts.  The  question  of  leasing  the  land  to  the 
state  was  considered  at  a  town  meeting  held  on  the  twenty- 
eighth  of  March.  The  twentieth  article  in  the  warrant  for 
that  meeting  read  as  follows  : — 

To  see  if  they  will  lease  or  grant  the  use  of  the  land  where  the  Gun 
House  now^  stands  to  the  State  or  to  any  person  in  behalf  of  the  State 
for  the  accommodation  of  said  house,  and  on  what  terms.' 

This  article  was  referred  to  the  selectmen,  who  subsequent- 
ly re})orted  in  fa\or  of  granting  the  free  use  of  the  land  for 
the  purpose  named. 

In  1842,  additional  room  was  needed  for  the  better  accom- 
modation of  the  artillery  company,  and  on  the  twenty-eighth 
of  March  the  town  voted  to  appropriate  the  sum  of  one  hun- 
dred dollars  "  for  the  purpose  of  fitting  up  an  armory  for  said 
company  and  also  to  pay  the  rent  of  said  armory. "- 

After  the  annexation  of  a  part  of  the  town  of  Newbury  to 
Newburyport,  and  the  adoption  of  the  city  charter,  the  city 
council  voted,  December  5,  1853,  to  give  a  bond  to  the  state 
"  for  the  safe  keeping  of  the  cannon  now  in  the  possession  of 
the  Gushing  Guards,"  and  also  voted  to  purchase  the  gun 
house,  "  provided  the  state  will  sell  the  same  for  a  sum  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars." 

Ten  or  fifteen  years  later  the  cannon  were  returned  to  the 
quartermaster-general  of  the  commonwealth,  and  in  1882  the 
gun  house  was  removed  to  land  adjoining  the  Old  Hill  bury- 
ing ground,  near  the  junction  of  Auburn,  Low  and  Pond 
streets. 

The  half-tone  print  on   the  ne.xt    page    is    from    a    photo- 

'  Nfwliuryporl  'I'dwii  Kccoids.  vuliime  III,  ]iage  346. 
-  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  III,  page  124. 


ii6 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB I  'R  YPOR  T 


i;rx  Hoi'sK. 


graph  taken  in  1890.  The  gun  house  at  that  date  was  used 
as  a  storehouse.  It  remained  in  the  possession  of  the  city  of 
Newburyport  until  July  27,  1907,  when  it  was  sold  at  auction, 
removed  to  a  vacant  lot  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  Daven- 
port hill,  and  converted  into  a  dwelling  house. 


WASHINGTON    LIGHT    INFANTRY. 


On  the  fifteenth  of  April,  in  the  year  1800,  the  Washing- 
ton Light  Infantry  w^as  organized  in  Newburyport,  and 
promptly  equipped  for  military  service.  Abraham  Perkins 
was  chosen  captain,  Charles  Jackson,  lieutenant,  and  Nicholas 
Tracy,  ensign. 

The  company  made  its  first  [)ublic  appearance  on  the  twen- 
ty-fourth of  July  following,  and  was  heartily  applauded  as  it 
marched  through  the  principal  streets  of  the  town.'      It  was 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  July  25,   1800. 


VE7ERAN  ARTILLERY  ASSOCIATION 


117 


stationed  at  Plum  island  to  defend  the  fortifications  erected 
there  during^  the  war  of  181 2,  and  escorted  President  Monroe 
from  Bartlct  mall  to  the  tavern  on  State  street,  when  he  vis- 
ited Newburyport  in  July,  18 17.  In  the  month  of  August 
following,  the  regiment  to  which  this  company  was  attached 
was  disbanded,  but  in  January,  18 18,  the  company  was  reor- 
ganized, and  on  the  eighteenth  of  April  elected  Charles  H. 
Balch,  captain,  Eleazer  Johnson,  jr.,  lieutenant,  and  Philip 
Johnson,  jr.,  ensign. ' 

In  1824,  the  Newburyport  Artillery  and  Washington  Light 
Infantry  escorted  LaFayette  from  the  town  of  Newbury  to 
the  Tracy  house,  on  State  street,  in  Newburyport,  and  on  the 
fourth  of  July,  1826,  both  companies  united  in  celebrating  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  American  independence. 

At  the  burial  of  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth,  December  12, 
1826,  the  right  of  the  artillery  company  to  lead  the  proces- 
sion was  disputed  by  the  Washington  Light  Infantry.  A 
bitter  controversy  followed,  which  was  continued  for  several 
weeks  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day.-  In  March,  1834,  the 
officers  of  the  last-named  company  resigned,  and  the  company 
was  disbanded.3 

VETERAN    ARTILLERV    ASSOCIATION. 

On  the  fourth  of  July,  1854,  the  seventy-eighth  anniversary 
of  American  Independence  was  celebrated  in  Newburyport 
with  unusual  pomp  and  ceremony.  A  procession,  com- 
posed of  tradesmen,  members  of  the  fire  department,  delega- 
tions and  organizations  from  Bangor,  Portsmouth,  Boston, 
New  York,  and  other  cities  and  towns,  was  escorted  through 
the  principal  streets  by  the  Cushing  Guard,  Jabez  L.  Pearson, 
captain,  and  fifty  or  sixty   ex-members  of  the   old    Ncwbury- 

'  Newbuiyport  Herald,  April  21,  iSiS. 

'  Newbuiyport  Herald,  December  15  and  17,  i8j6,  and  Januaiy,  1827. 
■'  History  of  Newburyport  (Cushing),    pages  73   and    74;    History   of  Newbury- 
port (Mrs.  E.  Vale  Smith),  pages  j88  and  289. 


X  1 8  HIS  TOR  Y  OI  NE  WB I  'K  YPOK  T 

port  Artillery  company,  under  the  command  of  Maj.  Ebenezer 
Bradbury. 

In  the  month  of  October  following  the  Veteran  Artillery 
Association  was  formed.  Hon.  Ebenezer  Bradbury  was 
chosen  captain,  and  John  Burrill,  first  lieutenant.  On  the 
third  of  November  the  association  made  its  first  appearance 
in  public,  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant  Burrill  (Captain 
Bradbury  being  detained  at  home  by  illness),  and  attracted 
much  attention.  It  was  active  and  vigorous  for  twenty-five 
or  thirty  years,  participating  in  many  military  parades.  It 
still  retains  its  name  and  organization,  but  in  recent  years  has 
not  met  for  military  exercise  or  drill. 


CHAPTER   XXI. 

LODGES,     BENEVOLENT    SOCIETIES,     CORPORATIONS,      LITERARV? 
MUSICAL    AND     OTHER     ASSOCIATIONS. 

July  I/,  1766,  the  Right  Worshipful  Jeremy  (iridley,  esq., 
''  provincial  Grand  Master  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  So- 
ciety of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  in  North  America," 
granted  a  charter  for,  and  appointed  Stephen  Hooper  master 
of,  St.  John's  lodge  in  Newburyport. 

Nathaniel  Tracy,  John  Tracy,  Stephen  Hooper,  Michael 
Hodge,  Capt.  Moses  Brown,  Bulkeley  Emerson,  Rufus  King, 
Edward  Wigglesworth,  William  Moreland,  Rev.  Edward  Bass, 
Dr.  John  B.  Swett  and  others  prominent  in  mercantile  or 
professional  life  were  interested  in  the  organization  of  this 
lodge  and  contributed  liberally  to  its  support. 

The  records  of  the  lodge  previous  to  1781  have  been  lost 
or  destroyed,  but  the  following  notices  published  in  the  Essex 
Journal  and  Merrimack  Packet  indicate  that  Stephen  Hooper 
retained  the  of^ce  of  master  until  the  beginning  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war. 


Masons  are  notified  that  the  Right  Worshipful  Stephen  Hooper,  Esq. 
intends  to  celebrate  the  feast  of  St.  John,  the  Evangelist,  on  Tuesday, 
the  27th  of  December,  at  Mason's  Hall,  in  Newbur\'port. 

All  brethren  are  desired  to  attend  at  eleven  o'clock  A.  M. 

Bulkeley  E.mekson,  sec. 

Dinner  precisely  at  two  o'clock.' 


'  Kssex  Journal  and  Mcniniack  I'ac'kct,  I>ccL-nibcr  21,  1774  (  Hoston  Athenre- 
um).  Freemason's  hall  was  in  'I'emple  street,  and  is  now  a  dwelling  house  for  two 
families. 

119 


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HISTORY  Of  NEWBURYPORT 


The  Brethren  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Society  of  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons  are  hereby  notified  that  the  Right  Worshipful,  Stephen 
Hooper,  Esquire,  Master  of  St.  John's  Lodge  in  Newbury  Port,  intends 
to  celebrate  the  Feast  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist  on  the  27111  of  Decem- 
ber Instant  at  Mesfrs.  Davenport's  at  the  sign  of  General  Wolf. 

All  the  Brethren  are  desired  to  meet  at  Mason's  Hall  at  1 1  o'clock 
A.  M.  on  said  day.     By  order  of  the  Master  and  Wardens. 

BuLKELEY  Emerson,  Secy. 

N.  B.     The  Table  will  be  Furnished  precisely  at  two  o'clock.' 

Newburyport  [Monday]  Dec.  18,  1786. 
Notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Society  of  F'ree 
and  Accepted  Masons  that  the  Feast  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist  will  be 
celebrated  at  Mr.  Davenport's  by  the  master,  wardens  and  Brethren  of 
St.  John's  Lodge  on  Wednesday  ne.Kt.  Dinner  to  be  on  the  table  at  two 
o'clock.     Tickets  at  four  shillings  each  to  be  had  of 

Samuel  Cutler,  Secreta>y. 

N.  B.  The  Brethren  of  the  Lodge  are  desired  to  give  their  attendance 
at  the  Lodge  Room  at  nine  o'clock,  and  visiting  Brethren  at  half  past 
ten,  in  order  to  attend  service  at  St.  PauPs  Church. - 

During  the  anti-masonic  excitement  in  1830,  St.  John's 
Lodge  siuTendered  its  charter.  It  was,  however,  reorganized 
in  1853,  and  is  now  in  a  flourishing  condition. 


ST.    PETER  S    LODGE. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Grand  lodge  of  the  province  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  held  in  Boston  March  6,  1772,  a  charter  was 
granted  St.  Peter's  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  in 
Newburyport,  and  two  or  three  weeks  later  the  lodge  was 
organized.  The  following  notice  appeared  in  the  columns  of 
the  Esse.x  Gazette  March  31,  1772  : — ^ 

1  Essex  Journal  and  Merrimack  Packet,  December  15,  1775  (Boston  Athenre- 
um).  Anthony  and  Moses  Davenport  were  proprietors  of  the  Wolfe  tavern,  then 
standing  on  the  corner  of  State  street  and  Threadneedle  alley. 

-  Essex  lournal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  December  20,  1786  (Antiquarian 
Society,  Worcester). 

^  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 


ST.  PETER'S  LODGE  121 

We  hear  the  most  worshipful  Josepli  Warren,  Esq.,  Grand  Master  of 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  in  New  England,  has  granted  a 
charter  for  the  Erection  of  a  new  Lodge  at  Newbury  Port  by  the  name 
of  St.  Peters  Lodge.  A  number  of  respectable  masons  there  having 
petitioned  for  the  same. 

The  upper  chambers  of  a  dwelling  house  on  Temple  street 
were  leased  and  occupied  as  a  lodge  room,  with  the  members 
of  St.  John's  lodge  as  joint  tenants.  December  12,  1776, 
the  following  notice  was  published  in  the  Essex  Journal  and 
New  Hampshire  Packet : — ' 

The  Brethren  of  the  most  Ancient  and  Honorable  Society  of  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons  are  hereby  notified  that  the  Right  Worshipful  William 
Greenough,  master  of  St.  Peters  Lodge  in  Newburyport,  intends  to 
Celebrate  the  Feast  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist  on  the  27111  of  December 
next  at  the  Merrimack  Coffee  House  in  Newbury. 
By  order  of  the  Master  and  Wardens, 

John   Pettinoell,  Secretary. 

Newbury  Port,  Dec.  11,  5776. 

N.  B.     Dinner  precisely  at  2  o'clock. 

In  1792,  the  meetings  of  St.  Peter's  lodge  were  held  in 
rooms  provided  for  that  purpose  on  Queen,  now  Market,  street. 
At  ten  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  twenty-fifth  of  Jime  of 
that  year  the  members  assembled  in  the  lodge  room  to  cele- 
brate the  festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  and  after  a  brief 
preliminary  service,  proceeded  to  St.  Paul's  church,  where 
prayers  were  read  by  Rev.  Edward  Bass,  and  an  address,  ap- 
propriate to  the  occasion,  delivered  by  Rev.  Robert  Fowle. 
Similar  ser\-ices  held  on  several  subsequent  occasions  were 
announced  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day,  as  follows  : — 

Festival  of  St.  John.  The  Worshipful  Master,  Wardens  and  Brethren 
of  St.  I'eter's  Lodge  intend  celebrating  the  Feast  of  St.  John  the  Baptist 
on  Tuesday,  the  24'li  current,  at  the  house   of   Mr.   Jeptha    Spaleling,  on 

'  American  Aiilitinaiian  Society,  Worcester,  Mass. 


1 2  2  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Deer  Island.     All  worthy   masons  are    requested    to    attend   with  their 
clothing  and  Jewels. 

By  order  of  the  Worshipful  Master  and  Wardens. 

George  J.  Osborne,  Sec'y. 

\*  Dinner  on  the  Table  at  two  o'clock  P.  M.' 

The  festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  will  be  celebrated  on  Monday 
[June  25,  1798]  by  St.  Peter's  Lodge.  At  eleven  o'clock  a  procession 
will  proceed  from  Union  Hall  on  Green  street  to  St.  Paul's  Church, 
where  prayers  will  be  read  and  an  oration  delivered.  Dinner  to  be  served 
at  two  o'clock  at  the  Hall  on  Deer  Island. 

A.  Perkins,    Secretary.^ 

[June  24,  1803.]  The  Brethren  of  St.  Peter's  and  St.  John's  lodges 
will  celebrate  the  feast  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  this  day.  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop 
Bass  will  officiate  at  the  religious  service,  and  an  address  by  Brother 
John  Park  will  be  dehvered  at  Rev.  Mr.  Andrews  meeting-house.  Breth- 
ren will  meet  at  Mason's  Hall  on  Green  street  at  9.30  A.  M.  Dinner 
will  be  on  the  table  at  Deer  Island  Bridge  at  2  o'clock  P.  M.3 


February  7,  1820,  Jonathan  Gage,  Joshua  Greenleaf,  Ste- 
phen Howard,  Jacob  Perkins,  Eleazer  Johnson,  Enoch  Plumer 
and  other  members  of  the  lodge  were  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  "  The  Trustees  of  Saint  Peter's  Charity  Fund  in 
Newburyport,"  for  the  purpose  of  holding  real  and  personal 
estate  and  applying  the  income  thereof  to  acts  of  charity  and 
benevolence,  "  and  for  no  other  use  whatever."^ 

July  28,  1820,  Joshua  Greenleaf  conveyed  to  the  trustees 
of  St.  Peter's  Charity  Fund,  land  on  Green  street,  with  the 

'  Morning  Star,  lune  17,  1794-  The  proprietors  of  the  Essex- Merrimack  bridge 
purchased  Deer  island  in  1792,  and  erected  a  toll  house  and  tavern  there.  Jeptha 
Spalding  was  landlord  until  September  i,  1794. 

"  Newburj'port  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  June  22,  1798.  Union  hall  was 
probably  built  in  1797  on  the  southeasterly  side  of  Green  street,  near  Merrimack 
street.  In  1802,  Washington  hall  was  built  on  land  owned  by  Jonathan  tiage, 
near  Union  hall.  Subsequently,  both  halls  were  connected  and  afterwards  converted 
into  tenement  houses,  Xos.  7,  9,  11  and  13  Green  street. 

a  Newbuiyport  Herald,  June  24,  1803. 

*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1819-1820,  chapter  102. 


ST.  .VA/^AT'S  LODGE 


123 


buildings  thereon,  "  fornieiiy  owned  by  Joseph  O'Brien  and 
others,"  and  sold  by  the  United  States  government  July  24, 
1820,  for  the  payment  of  the  direct  tax  for  the  year  i8i6.' 
On  the  same  date,  an  adjoining  lot,  "  bounded  in  part  by 
land  of  the  proprietors  of  Union  Hall,"  was  conveyed  to  the 
trustees  by  Jonathan  (lage,  Joshua  Greenleaf  and  Thomas 
Somerby.  On  this  land  Washington  hall  was  erected.  March 
30,  1829,  the  trustees  of  St.  Peter's  Charity  Fund  sold  the 
land,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  to  Jonathan  Gage,  Eleazer 
Johnson,  William  Davis,  John  Holliday,  Joseph  George  and 
Jacob  W.  Pierce. - 

In  1830,  St.  Peter's  lodge  surrendered  its  charter,  and  has 
not  been  in  active  operation  since  that  date. 

ST.  mark's  lodge. 

September  12,  1803,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Mas- 
sachusetts granted  a  charter  to  St.  Mark's  lodge  of  Newbury- 
port.  The  first  meeting  of  the  lodge  for  organization  was 
held  in  W^ashington  hall,  on  the  southeasterly  side  of  Green 
street,  near  Merrimack  street,  on  the  twenty-seventh  of  Sep- 
tember following.  The  officers  of  the  lodge  were  installed 
with  appropriate  ceremonies  by  the  officers  of  the  Grand  lodge 
July  1 1,  1804.3 

In  1825,  Phenix  hall  was  leased  and  fitted  up  as  a  lodge 
room  for  St.  Mark's  and  St.  John's  lodges.  In  1862,  both 
lodges  removed  to  Washington  hall,  on  the  corner  of  State 
and  Essex  streets.  In  1898,  St.  Mark's  lodge  returned  to 
Phenix  hall,  where  it  still  meets  to  instruct  its  members  in  the 
work  and  duties  of  masonry. 

September  28,  1903,  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  lodge 
was  celebrated  by  public  exercises  in  the  meeting-house  of  the 
First  Religious  society,  on  Pleasant  street,  where  Rev.  Oliver 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  225,  leaf  136. 
■■^  Essex  Deeds,  book  250,  leaf  301. 
'  Newbur)-port  Herald,  July  13,  1804. 


124 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  JVB  UK  YPOR  T 


A.  Roberts  delivered  an  interesting  historical  address,  which 
was  published  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day.  The  exercises 
closed  with  a  banquet  at  City  hall,  followed  by  brief  speeches 
from  distinguished  guests. 

KING  CYRUS  CHAPTER  OF  ROYAL  ARCH  MASONS. 

In  1790,  H.  Duplessis,  a  Frenchman  residing"  in  Nevvbury- 
port,  with  Jonathan  Boardman,  Jonathan  Gage,  Dr.  John  B. 
Swett  and  a  few  other  prominent  citizens  of  the  town,  formed 
an  association  called  King  Cyrus  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch 
Masons. 

The  Grand  chapter  for  the  New  England  states  was  organ- 
ized in  1798,  and  for  several  years  after  that  date  held  its  an- 
nual meetings  alternately  in  Boston  and  Newburyport.  A 
charter  authorizing  King  Cyrus  chapter  to  confer  the  degrees 
of  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  on  candidates  applying  for  the  same 
was  granted  September  1 7,  1 799,  by  the  Grand  chapter,  and 
continued  in  force  until  the  anti-masonry  excitement  in  1830, 
when  it  was  surrendered.'  The  charter  was  revived,  however, 
in  1854,  and  since  that  date  King  Cyrus  chapter  has  been  in 
active  operation,  and  is  still  strong  and  vigorous. 

NEWBURYPORT    COMMANDERY    OF    KNIGHTS    TEMPLARS. 

In  1795,  Dr.  John  B.  Swett,  Dudley  A.  Tyng,  Jonathan 
Gage,  Joshua  Greenleaf,  Nathaniel  Knapp,  William  Wyerand 
Samuel  Cutler  formed  the  Newburyport  Encampment  of 
Knights  Templars.     At  a  later  date,  Abraham  Perkins,  Sam- 

'  Rev.  William  Bentley,  in  his  diary,  volume  II,  page  320,  under  the  date  of 
October  14,  1799,  says: — 

"  I  left  Salem  for  Newbury  Port  &  found  the  Royal  Arch  in  Chapter  according 
to  promise.  At  their  Invitation  I  visited  them  &  received  the  degrees  of  Mark 
Master,  Past  Master,  Excellent  Master  &  Royal  Arch  Mason.  There  was 
an  elegant  supper  after  the  Ceremonies  &  I  passed  the  evening  with  the  High 
Priest,  after  having  visited  Capt.  Noyes,  Capt.  Knap,  Rev'd  Mr.  Cary,  Blount, 
&c." 


iNDEPF.xDF.y'r  ORnF.R  OF  onn  FFLLOWS  125 

uel  MuUiken.  Charles  Jackson,  Jacob  Perkins,  William  Woart, 
Edward  Dorr  and  others  were  associated  with  them  in  confer- 
nng  the  degrees  of  the  Red  Cross  and  Knights  Templars.  The 
first  commander,  Dr.  John  B.  Swett,  was  elected  in  1795; 
the  second,  Nathaniel  Knapp,  jr.,  in  1800.'  A  diploma, 
stating  that  Hamilton  Moore  had  received  the  degrees  of  the 
Templar  order,  signed  by  John  B.  Swett,  Dudle\'  A.  Tyng, 
Jonathan  Gage,  Stephen  Howard  and  Benjamin  Perkins,  Yoh- 
ruary  16,  1796,  has  been  carefully  preservetl,  and  now  hangs 
in  the  armory  of  the  Sir  Knights. 

The  Grand  Encampment  of  Massachusetts  and  Rhode 
Island  was  not  organized  until  1806.  In  answer  to  a  petition 
of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Newburyport,  ^'  stating  that  they  ha\e 
heretofore  assembled  together  as  was  the  custom  of  Knights 
pre\iously  to  the  establishment  of  the  Grand  I^ncampment, 
and  exercised  the  privilege  of  forming  and  opening  an  occa- 
sional council  .  .  .  they  therefore  pray  for  a  Charter  of 
Recognition  extending  and  confirming  unto  them  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  a  regularly  constituted  encampment,"  a 
charter  was  granted  May  19,  1808,  and  Nathaniel  Knapp, 
jr.,  was  appointed  commander.  In  1869,  the  name  Newbury- 
port Encampment  was  changed  to  Newburyport  Commandery 
of  Knights  Templars. 

INDEPENDENT    ORDER    OF    ODD    FELEOWS. 

March  7,  1844,  Eben  S.  Stearns,  George  P2mory,  John 
Poole,  S.  K.  Gilman,  C.  A.  Somerby  and  others  organized  in 
Newburyport  the  Ouascacunquen  Lodge,  No.  39.  Meetings 
were  held  in  Phenix  hall,  on  State  street,  until  June,  1850, 
and  afterward  in  Union  hall,  on  Hale's  court.  This  last- 
named  hall  was  dedicated  July  28,  1850,  Eben  S.  Stearns 
delivering  the  dedicatory  address. 

'  Rev.  William  Hentley  of  Salem,  in  his  diary,  un  der  the  date  <if  April  28.  i8co, 
says : — 

"  I  went  to  Newbury.      My  object  was  of  the  degrees  of  Red  Cross  &  Templars. 
I  spent  an  evening  agreeably  with  Mr.  Carey  &  lodged  at  his  House." 


126 


HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


In  June,  1853,  a  hall  on  the  third  floor  of  the  Merchants 
Bank  building,  corner  of  State  and  Charter  streets,  after- 
ward known  as  Odd  Fellows'  hall,  was  leased  and  occupied 
as  a  lodge  room.  It  was  thoroughly  re-fitted  and  re-furnished 
in  1872.  Thirty  years  later,  when  additional  room  was 
needed,  the  armory  on  Merrimack  street  was  purchased,'  re- 
modeled, and  dedicated  February  17,    1905,   with    appropriate 

exercises. 

Philip  K.  Hills,  esq.,  one 
of  the  charter  members  of 
the  Ouascacunquen  lodge, 
was  much  interested  in  its 
organization  and  dev'elop- 
ment,  holding  the  office  of 
treasurer  in  1844,  and  also 
that  of  Noble  Grand.  In 
1845,  he  was  elected  repre- 
sentative to  the  Right 
Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of 
Massachusetts;  in  1847, 
District  Deputy  Grand 
Master;  in  185 1,  Grand 
Warden  of  the  Right 
Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of 
imiiiK.  Mills.  Massachusetts    and  Grand 

Representative  to  the  Right 
Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of  the  United  States  of  America  ;  and, 
in  1859.  Grand  Master  of  the  Right  Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of 
Massachusetts.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  meetings  of 
the  local,  as  well  as  the  state  and  national  lodges,  and  favored 
the  adoption  of  measures  that  ultimately  led  to  the  organization 
of  the  supplementary  and  auxiliary  orders  known  as  the 
Encampment  and  the  Daughters  of  Rebekah.  He  was 
-elected  scribe  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  Merrimack  Encamp- 


1  Essex  Pecds,  book  1 760,  paj^e  1 90. 


rNDEPEXDE.\'T  ORDER  OF  ODD  FELLOWS  127 

ment,  No.  7,  and  subsequently  held  the  office  of  Chief 
Patriarch.  In  1846,  he  represented  the  lodge  in  the  Grand 
Encampment  of  Massachusetts  ;  in  1850,  he  was  Grand  Patri- 
arch of  the  Grand  Encampment ;  and  in  1856,  Grand  Repre- 
sentative to  the  Right  Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of  the  United 
States  of  America.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  one  of 
the  trustees  having  charge  of  the  financial  affairs  of  Merri- 
mack Encampment,  No.  7.' 

The  Ouascacunquen  lodge  has  two  funds,  one  a  general 
fund  for  the  assistance  of  members  injured  by  accident  or  ill 
with  disease,  and  the  other  a  fund  for  the  assistance  of  widows 
and  children  of  deceased  members.^ 

Merrimack  Encampment,  No.  7,  was  chartered  February 
fifth,  and  organized  February  14,  1845. 

United  Rebekah  Lodge,  No.  13,  was  organized  April  25, 
1870;  charter  surrendered  March  10,  1884;  and  reorganized 
December  4,  1893. 

Canton  Harmony,  No.  47,  Patriarchs  Militant,  organized  in 
1880,  is  composed  of  members  from  the  Merrimack  Encamp- 
ment of  Newburyport  and  the  Harmony  Encampment  of 
Amesbury,  Mass. 

'  Philip  Knapp  Hills,  son  of  Joshua  and  Lydia  Hills,  was  born  in  Newburyport 
May  6,  1820.  He  married  Mary  P.  (ierrish  September  3,  1846,  and  was  for 
several  years  an  officer  in  the  custom  house,  and  afterwards  bookkeeper  in  the  Mer- 
chants Bank.  From  185 1  to  1855,  he  was  a  member  of  the  common  council  of 
the  city  of  Newburyport  and  alderman  from  1856  to  1858  inclusive;  Director  of 
the  Public  librar)-  from  1856  to  1869;  and  member  of  the  school  committee  from 
1874  to  1877  inclusive.  In  1855,  he  was  elected  secretarj-,  and  in  1881,  treas- 
urer of  the  Institution  for  Savings  in  Newbur)-port  and  \'icinity.  Owing  to  im- 
paired eyesight  he  was  obliged  to  resign  the  last-named  office  in  1893.  During  the 
last  three  or  four  years  of  his  life  he  was  totally  blind.  He  bore  his  aftiiction  with 
characteristic  courage  and  cheerfulness,  and  died  August  15,  1901,  leaving  a 
widow,  two  sons  and  three  daughters. 

■•^  The  above  sketch  has  been  compiled  from  an  alistract  of  the  records  of  (^)uas- 
cacunquen  lodge  prepared  by  William  H.  Welch,  P.  C.  P.,  and  Samuel  |.  Ford, 
P.  C.  P. 


1 2  8  ^/-5  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB I  ^  YPOR  T 

NEWBURYPORT    MARINE    SOCIETY. 

In  the  dwelling"  house  on  Bartlett's  lane,  now  Winter  street, 
owned  and  occupied  by  Capt,  Benjamin  Rogers,  the  Marine 
Society  of  Newburyport  was  organized  November  5,  1772 
Rooms  were  afterward  engaged  at  Wolfe  tavern,  and  meetings 
were  held  there  as  often  as  once  a  month  for  many  years.  The 
society  was  incorporated  October  13,  1777.  It  still  continues 
its  charitable  work  with  a  membership  materially  reduced  (by 
the  decline  in  American  commerce)  since  the  close  of  the  Civil 
war.' 

THE    MERRIMACK    HUMANE    SOCIETY. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  the  court  house  in  Newburyport  on 
the  tenth  of  August,  1802,  a  society  was  formed  for  the  pur- 
pose of  rewarding  acts  of  valor  and  heroism  and  aiding  mar- 
iners cast  ashore  on  Plum  island.  At  an  adjourned  meeting, 
held  in  the  month  of  September,  the  following-named  officers 
were  elected  : — 

Micajah  Sawyer,  M.  D.,  President. 

Dudley  A.  Tyng,  esq.,  Vice-president. 

Ebenezer  Stocker,  esq.,  Treasurer. 

Nathaniel  Bradstreet.  M.  D.,  Corresponding  secretary. 

William  Woart,  Recording  secretary. 

'  "  Ould  Newbury " :  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  586-592; 
History  of  the  Marine  Society  of  Newburyport,  published  in  1906. 

The  statement  that  the  first  meeting  of  the  society  was  held  in  the  Ilsley  house 
is  evidently  incorrect.  In  1772,  Benjamin  Colman  owned  and  occupied  that 
house.  It  is  still  standing  on  High  street,  near  the  head  of  Marlborough  street,  in 
the  town  of  Newbuiy.  See  "Ould  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical 
Sketches,  page  192. 

Benjamin  Rogers,  mariner,  bought  of  Tristram  Dalton,  April  12,  1 770,  a  dwel- 
ling house  on  Bartlett's  lane,  and  sold  it  to  Joseph  Ingersol  April  11,  1778  (Essex 
Deeds,  book  128,  leaf  167;    and  book  136,  leaf  52). 

The  shipmasters  who  organized  the  Marine  Society  "  met  together  at  the  house 
of  Capt.  Benjamin  Rogers  in  Newbuiyport,"  and  not  in  the  house  then  occupied 
by  Benjamin  Colman  in  Newbuiy. 


MERRIMACK  IIUMANK  SOCIETY 

Kl.  Kev.  Edward  Bass,  Newburyport,  "] 

Rev.  Thomas  Car)',  " 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Saltonstall,  Haverhill, 

Dr.  Samuel  Nye,  Salisbury, 


129 


[>  Trustees. 


William  Coombs,  esq.,  Newburyport, 

Rev.  Isaac  Smith,  Newbury  (Byfield), 

Nicholas  Johnson,  esq.,  Newburyport, 
Rev.  Daniel  Dana,  " 

Rev.  Samuel  Spring,  " 

Rev.  John  Andrews,  " 


On  the  sixth  of  September,  1803,  the  annual  meeting  was 
held  in  Washington  hall  on  Green  street.  After  the  election 
of  officers  and  transaction  of  other  business,  the  members 
of  the  society  attended  divine  service  in  St.  Paul's  church, 
where  l^ishop  Bass  delivered  a  sermon  appropriate  to  the 
occasion,  and  a  collection  was  taken  in  aid  of  the  funds  of  the 
society.' 

March  7,  1804,  "  Micajah  Sawyer,  M.  I).,  Dudley  A.  Tyng 
and  Ebenezer  Stocker,  Esqrs.,  Dr.  Nathaniel  Bradstreet, 
William  Woart,  Rev.  Thomas  Gary,  l-lev.  Samuel  Spring, 
Rev.  John  Andrews,  Rev.  Daniel  Dana,  and  Rev. 
Isaac  Smith,  William  Goombs  and  Nicholas  Johnson, 
Esqrs.,  Dr.  Nathaniel  Saltonstall,  Dr.  Samuel  Nye,  and  Rev. 
Joseph  Dana,  D.  D.,  with  their  associates,"  were  incorporated 
by  the  name  of  The  Merrimack  Humane  Society,  and  au- 
thorized to  make  such  rules  and  adopt  such  measui"es  as  were 
considered  necessary  "  for  the  recovery  of  persons  who  meet 
with  such  accidents  as  produce  in  them  the  appearance  of 
death,  and  for  promoting  the  cause  of  humanity  by  pursuing 
such  means,  from  time  to  time,  as  shall  have  for  their  object 
the  preservation  of  human  life  and  the  alle\iation  of  its  mis- 
eries."- 

Three  small   liouses  were  erected    at   conx'cnient   places  on 

'  Hisho])  Iiass  dii-il  Scplcnibcr  lo,  1803.  His  place  on  the  board  of  trustees  was 
filled  1))'  the  election  of  Kev.  Joseph  Dana,  D.  D.,  of  Ipswich. 

2  Special  Acts  of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  1803-1804. 


^  30  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Plum  island  for  the  shelter  of  shipwrecked  seamen,  and  col- 
ored lights  and  signals  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  keeper 
of  the  lighthouses  to  be  used  in  case  of  need.  Grappling 
irons  for  the  recovery  of  bodies  and  inflaters  and  electrical 
machines  to  restore  respiration  and  circulation  to  persons 
nearly  suffocated  by  fire  or  water  were  distributed  along 
the  river  front  from  the  foot  of  Federal  street  to  what 
is  now  the  foot  of  Ashland  street.  Many  persons 
who  risked  their  lives  to  save  others  were  presented  with 
medals  and  other  testimonials  of  value  by  the  society/ 

William  Plummer,  a  lad  about  nine  years  of  age,  son  of 
Paul  Plummer  of  Newbury,  fell  July  13,  18 12,  from  a  raft 
into  the  Merrimack  river,  near  the  wharf  owned  by  William 
Coombs,  esq.,  who  discovered  him  in  the  water  struggling  to 
reach  the  shore.  Throwing  off  his  hat  and  wig,  Mr.  Coombs 
leaped  from  the  wharf,  caught  the  child  in  his  arms  and 
saved  him.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Humane  society,  held  on 
the  twenty-ninth  of  July  following,  a  special  committee,  ap- 
pointed by  the  society,  reported  the  facts  substantially  as 
stated  above,  closing  their  report  as  follows  : — 

Your  committee  are  happy  in  stating  to  the  Trustees  that  this  distin- 
guished act  of  humanity  has  fallen  to  the  lot  of  their  late  worthy  Vice 
President,  Wilham  Coombs,  Esq.,  at  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-six 
years;  and  they  participate  in  the  high  satisfaction  he  must  have  exper- 
ienced when  the  lad  whom  his  heroic  exertion  had  rescued  from  prema- 
ture death,  as  soon  as  he  had  placed  him  on  the  raft  in  safety,  threw  his 
arms  around  his  aged  benefactor's  neck,  and  exclaimed,  "  O,  sir !  you 
have  saved  my  life  ! " 

The  society  voted  to  award  to  Mr.  Coombs  a  gold  medal, 
its  highest  mark  of  honor,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to 
carry    the    vote    into    effect.^     The    realistic    design    of    the 

^  May  31,  1804,  the  Merrimack  Humane  Society  paid  E.  Moulton  for  making, 
and  |.  Akin  for  engraving,  a  medal  presented  Captain  Gage  for  his  humane  exer- 
tions in  saving  the  lives  of  two  hundred  persons  from  the  wreck  of  the  ship  Sarah. 

'^  William  Coombs,  esq.,  was  a  prominent  and  wealthy  citizen  of  Newburyport, 
interested  in  public  affairs,  and  for  several  years  representative  to  the  Ceneral 
Court.      He  died  Friday  evening.  May  27,  1814,  aged  seventy-eight. 


THE  FEMALE  CHARITABLE  SOCLETY 


131 


medal  is  shown  in    the   half-tone  print,   reproduced    on    this 
page  from  an  old  i:)hotograph. 

In  1 8 16,  the  society  contrib- 
uted the  sum  of  two  thousand 
dollars  to  the  fund  raised  in 
Boston  and  elsewhere  for  the 
Massachusetts  General  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane.  Since 
that  date,  many  silver  medals 
and  other  testimonials  of  value 
have  been  presented  to  per- 
sons who  have  been  instru- 
mental in  saving  human  life, 
or  alleviating  suffering,  in  the 
vicinity  of   Newburyport. 

The  society  still   maintains   its   organization 
for  the  year  1909  are  as  follows  : — 


The  officers 


Thomas  C.  Simpson, 
Henry  B.  Little, 
William  R.  Johnson, 
Lawrence  B.  Gushing, 
William  Ilsley, 


President. 

Vice-president. 

Treasurer. 

Secretary. 

Auditor. 


THE     NEWBURVPORT    FEMALE    CHARITABLE     SOCIETY. 

June  8,  1803,  a  society  was  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
instructing,  employing,  and  maintaining  female  orphan  chil- 
dren in  Newburyport.  Engraved  certificates  of  membership 
were  issued,  signed  by  Hannah  Balch,  directress,  and  Mary 
W'oart,  secretary. 

These  certificates  were  probably  cni;ravcd  by  James  Akin, 
who  came  to  Newburyport  in  1804.  The  half-tone  print  on 
the  next  page  is  taken  from  a  certificate  printed  on  white  silk, 
now  in  the  Newburyport  Public  library.  Another  certificate, 
printed  on  fine  linen  paper,  with  the    name  of    Mrs.    Lucy 


Zkh^htfid    task. 'to   rectr    the    Under  thought » 
To  UcLch  the  youtia   idea   bow  tc  aboot 


^ 


■u/no  A.a^c^e  Azuz/a/^^   &*^c!^^1(taAe^   M^  Femah  Charitable 

Asx-LViW,/^  dey^??r?t:'e€-U^m  ^indigent  orphans. 

— — — __^____  M^Akin  famishea    each  membfr  with  a  shecinxen 
of  her  aiilides  in  the  Grahbic  Aii.  eynhltmatic  tf  the    intdUiHon. 


CERTIFICATE   OF   THE    FEMALE   CHARITABLE    SOCIEIV. 


THE  FEMALE  CHARITABLE  SOCIETY  133 

Kimball  in  the  place  of  Mrs.  Sally  Sweetser,  is  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

March  15,  1805,  the  society  was  incorporated  by  the  name 
of  The  Newburyport  Female  Charitable  Society. '  The 
officers  at  that  date  were  as  follows  : — 


Hannah  Balcli,  First  direcUess. 

Sarah   Thompson,  .Second  directress. 

Margaret  Atvvood,  Treasurer. 

Hannah  Bartlett,  Secretary. 

Anne  Norton,  "^ 

Dorcas  Noyes,  jr.,        | 

Mary  Gage,  ! 

Elizabeth  E.  Carter,    [>  Managers. 

Susanna  Coffin, 

EHzabeth  Jenkins, 

Rebecca  Marquand, 


For  nearly  twenty  years  after  its  organization  the  society 
contributed  weekly  a  certain  sum  for  the  care  and  support 
of  female  orphan  children.  April  8,  1822,  a  house  on 
Federal  street,  near  High  street,  was  leased,  a  superintendent 
employed,  and  a  home  provided  for  the  beneficiaries  of  the 
society.-  In  1829,  a  more  commodious  house  on  the  easterly 
side  of  Roberts  street,  near  Lime  street,  was  purchased,  and 
the  children  removed  there.^  The  funds  of  the  society,  how- 
ever, were  insufficient  to  meet  the  annual  expenses,  and  the 
house  was  leased,  the  furniture  sold,  and  the  home  discontin- 
ued in  1845,  but  the  society  still  continues  to  provide  food, 
clothing  and  comfortable  homes  in  pri\ate  houses,  for  female 
orphan  children  needing  assistance. 

^  Acts  and  Resohes,  1804-1S05,  chii])ter  108. 

'^  On  .Sundays,  the  children,  clothed  in  j^arments  of  the  same  color  and  shape, 
followed  their  superintendent  in  solemn  jirocession  to  the  Old  .South  meeting- 
house, where  a  large  pew  in  the  gallery  was  reserved  for  their  special  use. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  hook  252,  leaf  171. 


134 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  T 


THE    NEWBURYPORT    MECHANICK    ASSOCIATION. 


In  1807,  Robert  Merrill  was  secretary  of  an  association  or- 
ganized for  the  purpose  of  assisting  mechanics  and  establish- 
ing industrial  enterprises.  Paul  Merrill  was  assistant  secre- 
tary in  1809.' 

On  the  fifth  of  March,  18 10,  Theophilus  Bradbury  "and 
all  others  who  have  associated  or  may  hereafter  associate  with 
him  "  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  the  Newburyport 
Mechanick  Association,  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  the 
sufferings  and  distress  of  unfortunate  mechanics  and  their 
families,  promoting"  inventions  and  improvements  in  the  in- 
dustrial world,  granting  premiums  for  such  inventions  and 
improvements,  and  assisting  young  mechanics  with  loans  of 
money.^ 

This  association  was  subsequently  re-organized,  and  some 
changes  made  in  its  rules  and  regulations.  A  new  charter 
was  granted  by  the  General  Court  March  29,  1837,  and  Ben- 
jamin Gunnison,  John  S.  Dodge  and  Joseph  Couch,  "their 
associates  and  successors,"  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of 
the  Newburyport  and  Newbury  Mechanic  Association,  for  the 
purpose  of  promoting  moral  and  mental  culture.^ 

How  long  the  association  continued  its  work  is  unknown, 
but  it  evidently  ceased  to  exist  previous  to  1850. 


THE    MERRIMACK    BIBLE    SOCIETY. 

January  17,  18 10,  a  society  for  the  distribution  of  the  Bible 
among  the  poor  and  destitute  was  organized  in  Newburyport, 
and  February  27,  18 10,  William  Coombs,  esq,,  Rev.  Samuel 
Spring,  Rev.  John  Andrews,  Rev.  Daniel  Dana,  Rev.  Charles 
W.  Milton,   Rev.  James  Morss,    Rev.  James   Miltimore,   Rev. 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  October  27,  1F07,  and  April  .:i,  1809. 
'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1809-1810,  chapter  97. 
3  Acts  and  Resolves,  1837,  chapter  loi. 


IVASHIXGTON  BEXEVOl.ENT  SOCIETY 


135 


John  S.  Popkin,  William  Bartlet,  esq.,  Capt.  Thomas  M. 
Clark,  Daniel  A.  White,  esq.,  John  Pearson,  esq.,  Capt. 
Stephen  Holland,  Richard  Pike,  esq.,  and  William  ^^'oart, 
esq.,  "  together  with  those  who  have  associated  or  may 
hereafter  associate  with  them  for  the  purpose  aforesaid," 
were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The  Merrimack  Bible 
Society.' 

For    nearly    a    century    the     society     has     maintained     its 
organization.     The  officers  for  the  year  ending  1908   w^ere  as 


follows  : — 


Horace  C.  Hovey,  President. 
Alexander  Dixon,  Secretary. 
Frank  O.  Woods,     Treasurer. 


WASHINGTON  BENEVOLENT  SOCIETY. 

In  181 2,  the  Associated  Disciples  of  Washington  organized 
for  the  purpose  of  commemorating  the  life,  character  and 
pubUc  service  of  the  first  president  of  the  United  States. 

July  4,  1 8 12,  the  society  celebrated  the  thirty-si.xth  anni- 
versary of  American  independence  by  a  procession  through 
the  principal  streets  of  the  town  and  the  delivery  of  an  ora- 
tion in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Religious  Society,  on 
Pleasant  street,  by  Stephen  Hooper,  esq. 

On  the  second  of  September  following,  the  by-laws  of  the 
association  were  amended,  and  the  name,  Washington  Benevo- 
lent Society,  adopted. 

John  Pierpont,  esq.,  a  young  lawyer,  residing  in  Newbury- 
port,  read  a  poem  before  the  members  of  the  society  October 
27,  1812,  entitled  "The  Patriot,"  which  was  afterward  pub- 
lished in  pami:)hlet  form. 

Washington's  birthday,  P'ebruary  22,  18 13,  was  celebrated 
by  a  procession  and  the  delivery  of  an  oration  in  the  Pleasant 

'Acts  anil  Resolves.  1809-10,  chapter  64;  and  Nev\l)urypi)rt  Herald,  lanuary 
20,  1810. 


I  3  6  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  W B  UK  YPOR  T 

Street  meeting-house  by  Ebenezer  Moseley,  esq.     The  officers 
of  the  society  at  that  date  were  as  follows  : — 

William  B.  Bannister,  President. 

Isaac  Stone,  Vice-president. 

John  R.  Hudson,  Recording  secretary. 

Samuel  L.  Knapp,  Corresponding  secretary. 

Edmund  Bartlet,  Treasurer. 

On  the  twenty-sixth  of  October  following,  Stephen  Hooper, 
esq.,  delivered  an  oration  in  Town  hall  before  the  members  of 
the  society  ;  and  February  22,  18 14,  he  gave  an  eloquent  ad- 
dress on  the  life  and  character  of  Washington  in  the  Pleasant 
street  meeting-house. 

February  22,  181  5,  the  society  celebrated  the  birthday  of 
Washington  and  the  ratification  of  the  treaty  of  peace  between 
the  United  States  and  Great  Britain  by  a  public  procession 
and  an  address  appropriate  to  the  occasion  by  Stephen 
Hooper,  esq. 

At  a  meeting  held  in  Town  hall  February  22,  18 16,  the 
following-named  officers  were  elected  : — 

Col.  Ebenezer  Moseley,  President. 

Hon.  Stephen  Hooper,  Corresponding  secretary. 

Mr.  George  Titcomb,  Recording  secretary. 

Capt.  Edmund  Bartlet,  Treasurer. 

Several  months  later  it  was  considered  advisable  to  disband 
the  society  and  organize  a  new  one  on  a  firm  financial  basis 
for  charitable  and  benevolent  work  only. 

THE  NEWBURYPORT  HOW.-\RD  BENEVOLENT  SOCIETV. 

February  13,  181 8,  Thomas  M.  Clark  was  chosen  presi- 
dent, and  Jeremiah  P.  Toppan,  secretary,  of  a  society  organ- 
ized for  charitable  pui"poses.  At  an  adjourned  meeting  held 
three  days  later,  Richard  Bartlett  was  elected  treasurer. 


IVEJVBURYPORT  HOWARD  BE.VEVOLEyT  SOCIETY 


137 


February  15,  18 19,  Thomas  M.  Clark,  John  Pearson,  Henry 
Merritt,  Richard  Bartlett  and  Samuel  Tenney,  "  their  associ- 
ates and  successors,"  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The 
Newburyport  Howard  Benevolent  Society,  for  the  purpose  of 
relieving  suffering  occasioned  by  poverty  or  illness.' 
■  For  many  years  collections  in  aid  of  the  funds  of  the  society 
were  taken  up  as  often  as  once  in  twelve  months  in  every 
church  in  Newburyport,  and  a  small  annual  tax  was  assessed 
on  members.  Donations  and  bequests  have  been  received 
from  time  to  time  as  follows  : — 


From  Moses  Brown,  previous  to  1825, 
Bequest  of  Moses  Brown  (will  proved  in  1827), 

"         "  Hannah  Jones  of  Newbury,  cash,^ 

"         "         "  "      house  and  land, 

"         "  Edward  Rand,  1830, 

"  "   Mrs.  Benjamin  Balch, 

"  "  Justin  Smith, 

"         "  Sarah  Pettingell,  1837, 

"         "  Nancy  Emery,  1 849, 

"         "  James  K.  Whipple, 
"  B.  B.  Titcomb,  1857, 

"         "  S.  S.  Plumer, 

"         "  James  Caldwell, 
Donation  from  Mrs.  John  Muzzey,  Portland,  1873 

"  "      Mrs. Collins, 

"  "     Miss  Anna  Jaques,  1876, 

Bequest  of  Rev.  William  Horton,  1880, 

"         "  John  Osgood,  1880,     . 

"         "  Joseph  A.  Frothingham,  1880, 
"  Charles  R.  Merrill,  1881,     . 
"  William  Ashby,  1881, 

"         "  Richard  W.  Drown,  i88g, 

"         "  Lucy  J.  Muzzey,  1892, 

"         "  Ehza  A.  Hart,  1893, 

"         "  Annie  M.  Pike,  1893,  cash, 


^100  GO 

1,000  00 

I  50  00 

145  00 

200  00 

100  GO 

2GO  GO 

IGG  GG 

50  GG 

50  GG 

400  GO 

20G  00 

50  GG 

20G  GO 

500  GO 

IO,OGO  OG 

4,897  30 

50  GG 

100  GG 

100  00 

50  00 

2,GGO  00 

2,GGO  00 

100  00 

3,000  00 


1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1818-9,  chapter  77. 

"^  Miss  Jones  was  a  singlewoman.  Ky  her  will,  dated  October  26,  1819,  and 
proved  June  30,  1S29,  she  gave  to  the  Howard  Benevolent  Society  the  rest  and 
residue  of  her  property  after  the  payment  of  all  just  debts. 


1 3  8  ^IS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Bequest  of  Annie  M.  Pike,  1893,  house  and  land,  .         .  6,000  00 

"  "   Rev.  William  O.  Moseley,  1895,           .         .         .  3,000  00 

"         "   Mary  L.  Buntin,  1895, 1,000  00 

»         "  Adeline  Brookings,  1901, 1,858  75 

"  "  Charles  H.  Coffin,  1901,  for  the  purchase  of  fuel,  832  00 

"  "   Atkinson  Stanvvood,  1905,             ....  100  00 

"  "   Dorcas  Tredick,  1907,          .          .          .          .          ,  2,000  00 

At  the  close  of  the  year  1907,  the  invested  funds  of  the 
society  amounted  to  nearly  forty  thousand  dollars,  not  includ- 
ing the  bequest  of  ten  thousand  dollars  from  the  late  John  R. 
Spring  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  which  had  not  been  received 
from  the  executor  of  his  will. 

SOCIETY  FOR  THE  RELIEF  OF  AGED  FEMALES. 

May  26,  1825,  the  second  centennial  anniversary  of  the 
settlement  of  Newbury  was  celebrated  in  Newburyport.  On 
the  evening  of  that  day  a  tea  party  was  held  in  Town  hall. 
At  the  close  of  the  entertainment  a  small  balance  received 
from  the  sale  of  tickets  remained  unexpended,  and  was  made 
the  nucleus  of  a  fund  for  the  relief  of  aged  females. 

The  following  notice  appeared  in  the  columns  of  the  New- 
buryport Herald  June  30,  1835  • — ■ 

SOCIETY  FOR  THE  RELIEF  OF  AGED  FEMALES. 

The  ladies  who  have  signed  the  subscription  paper  for  the  above  pur- 
pose, and  all  those  ladies  in  Newburyport  and  vicinity  who  are  favorable 
to  the  forming  of  so  benevolent  and  useful  an  institution,  are  requested 
to  meet  at  Miss  Brockway's  school  room,  at  the  corner  of  High  and 
Green  streets,  for  organization,  to-morrow  afternoon,  at  4  o'clock. 

Rules  and  regulations  were  adopted,  officers  elected,  and  a 
small  tax  levied  upon  each  member  of  the  society.  Each 
month  during  the  first  year  packages  of  tea,  coffee,  sugar  and 
other  needed  supplies  were  given  to  thirty  aged  women. 

For  many  years  the  resources  of  the  society  were  exceed- 
ingly limited.    Its  invested  funds,  however,  were  substantially 


SOCfETV  FOR   THE  RELIEF  OF  AGED  FEMALES. 


139 


increased  by  the  bequest  of  William  (iordon,  who  was  born 
in  Tonsburg,  Norway,  June  12,  1790,  and  died  in  Newbury- 
port  March  31,  1839.  He  provided,  in  his  will,  that  the  rest 
and  residue  of  his  estate,  after  the  payment  of  certain  just 
debts,  should  be  funded  and  the  income  collected  and  paid 
annually  to  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Females,  or, 
in  case  that  society  should  cease  to  exist,  to  the  of^cers  of  the 
Howard  Benevolent  Society :  he  also  provided  that  a  platform 


01, 1)  I  AiiiKs     iiii\ii:. 


of  brick  of  suitable  size  in  other  respects,  but  of  about  one 
foot  in  height  from  the  ground,  be  built  over  his  grave, 
''  that  said  platform  be  plastered  over,  and  that  a  suitable  fiat 
stone  be  properly  placed  and  fastened  upon  said  platform." 
He  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground  near  the  junc- 
tion of  Greenleaf  and  Auburn  streets. 

In  order  to  hold  real  and  personal  estate  for  charitable  pur- 
poses, •'  Maria  J.  Brockway,   Anne  C.  Knight  and  Augusta  J. 


140 


HIST  OR  y  OF  XE  U'B  UR  VFOR  T 


Smith,  their  associates  and  successors,"  were  incorporated  on 
the  tenth  of  April,  1839,  by  the  name  of  The  Newburyport 
Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Females.' 

The  income  of  the  society  was  gradually  increased  b\-  con- 
tributions from  various  sources  and  by  the  sale  of  useful  and 
fancy  articles  at  annual  May-day  festivals.  In  1840,  fifty 
cents  a  month  was  allowed  each  beneficiary.  This  allowance 
has  been  increased  to  two  dollars  a  month  at  the  present 
time,  with  an  additional  sum  when  needed  for  medicine  or 
clothing. 

In  1855,  the  subject  of  establishing"  a  home  for  old  ladies, 
to  be  under  the  supervision  of  a  special  committee  appointed 
for  that  purpose,  was  carefully  considered,  but  no  definite 
action  was  taken  until  July  i,  1866,  when  a  brick  dwelling 
house.  No.  18  (31ive  street,  was  purchased.  Active  efforts 
were  made  to  raise  the  sum  needed  to  repair,  furnish  and 
maintain  the  home.  It  was  dedicated  with  appropriate  ser- 
vices June  12,  1872,  and  remained  under  the  care  and  control 
of  a  committee  of  twenty-four  ladies  until  it  was  sold  in 
December,  1892. 

Mrs.  Martha  G.  Wheelwright,  widow  of  William  Wheel- 
wright, gave  to  the  society  at  her  decease,  August  30,  1888, 
house  No.  75  High  street,  now  known  as  the  Old  Ladies' 
Home.  This  house,  built  in  1798  probably,  was  purchased 
by  William  Wheelwright  in  1841,-  and  subsequently  occupied 
by  his  mother  and  sisters.  After  his  decease,  it  became 
the  property  of  his  widow,  Martha  G.  Wheelwright,  and  of 
his  daughter,  Maria  Augusta  (Wheelwright)  Krell.  Some 
alterations  and  improvements  in  the  rear  of  the  house  have 
been  made  recently,  but  otherwise  it  remains  unchanged,  as 
shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page. 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1839,  chapter  153.  Subsequent  acts,  authorizing  the  society 
to  hold  additional  real  and  personal  estate  were  passed  by  the  General  Court  in  1859 
and  1876. 

'  "  Ould  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  654  and  658. 


SOCIETY  FOR   THE  RELIEF  OF  AGED  MEN 


141 


In  addition  to  the  above-described  house  and  land,  the  so- 
ciety has  an  invested  fund  of  nearly  one  hundred  and  twenty 
thousand  dollars, — seventy  thousand  for  the  support  o  f  the 
home,  and  fifty  thousand  for  the  relief  of  aged  females  not 
otherwise  provided  for. 

NEWBURYPORT    SOCIETY    FOR    THE    RELIEF    OF    AGED     MEN. 

In  July,  1886,  Eliphalet  Griffin,  Albert  VV.  Greenleaf,  Law- 


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U.l)    MKN  S    HOMK 


rence  B.  Gushing  and  others  signed  articles  of  agreement  for 
the  purpose  of  organizing  a  society  which,  on  the  twentieth  of 
November  following,  was  incorporated  by  the  name  of  the 
Newbury  port  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Men. 

In  1890,  the  society  received  from  Eliphalet  Griffin  the  net 
proceeds  of  a  lawn  party  held  at  his  residence  in  September 
of  that  year,  and  several  hundred  dollars  from  a  similar  gath- 
ering in  July,  1 89 1.  He  also  purchased  and  gave  to  the 
society  a  lot  of  land  in  the  vicinity  of  the  "  Three  Roads,'"  so 


142 


ftfS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPOR  T 


called,  and  in  1896  built  at  his  own  expense  the  foundation 
for  a  brick  building,  which  was  completed  two  or  three  years 
later  by  a  vote  of  the  trustees.  Mr.  Griffin  died  July  10, 
1899. 

For  the  lack  of  available  funds,  the  home  remained  unfur- 
nished and  unoccupied  until  March,  1902,  when  the  trustees 
voted  to  furnish  the  dining  room,  office  and  four  chambers. 
The  work  was  completed  in  season  to  admit  four  aged  men  to 
the  home  on  the  fourteenth  of  April  following.  Since  that 
date,  other  rooms  have  been  furnished,  and  the  number  of  in- 
mates has  been  increased  to  seven  at  the  present  time. 

A  photographic  view  of  the  building  is  reproduced  in  the 
half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page. 

The  estimated  value  of  the  land  and  building  is  thirteen 
thousand  dollars.  The  society  has,  also,  an  invested  fund  of 
over  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

NEWBURYPORT    BETHEL    SOCIETY. 

In  November,  1836,  the  Female  Bethel  Society  of  New- 
buryport  was  organized  for  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the 
temporal  and  spiritual  improvement  of  seamen,  and  co-oper- 
ating with  the  American  Seamen's  Friend  Society  in  its  char- 
itable and  philanthropic  work.'  In  1843,  and  for  ten  or  fifteen 
years  after  that  date,  this  society  was  known  as  the  "  Ladies 
Bethel  Society,"-  but  no  authority  for  the  change  of  name  has 
been  discovered.  In  October,  1857,  articles  of  agreement  and 
association  were  filed  with  the  register  of  deeds  at  Salem, 
Mass.,  incorporating  Helen  Tracy,  Julia  B.  Spaulding,  Sophia 
Ann  Follansbee,  Mary  P.  Graves,  Hannah  H.  Jones,  Abbie 
F.  Pike,  M.  J.  Brown,   "  their  associates   and  successors,"  by 

'  The  American  .Seamen's  P'riend  Society  was  probaljly  organized  as  early  as 
1830.  At  tiie  annual  meeting  held  in  the  vestry  of  the  North  Congregational 
church  January  24,  1833,  Capt.  John  Wills  was  elected  president  of  the  society. 

^  See  advertisements  of  annual  meetings  published  in  the  Newburyport  Herald 
in  November,  1845,  and  later;  and  Newburyport  directories,  185 1  to  1858. 


General  charitable  society  of  newburyport 


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the  name  of  the  Newburyport  Ladies  Bethel  Society.'  This 
act  of  incorporation  was  evidently  not  acceptable  to  a  major- 
ity of  the  members,  and  a  few  of  them,  dissatisfied  with  the 
proceedings,  formed  a  new  society  and  maintained  a  separate 
organization  for  more  than  twenty  years,  under  articles  of 
agreement  filed  in  October,  1857. 

The  constitution  of  the  Female  Bethel  Society,  organized 
in  1836,  was  amended  at  a  meeting  held  June  17,  1858,  and 
a  copy  of  the  revised  constitution  was  filed  with  the  register 
of  deeds  December  11,  i860.-  In  1867,  the  name  of  the 
Female  Bethel  Society  of  Newburyport  was  changed  by  an 
act  of  the  General  Court  to  the  Newburyport  Bethel  Society, 
which  name  it  still  retains.^ 

GENERAL    CHARITABLE    SOCIETY    OF    NEWBURYPORT. 

In  February,  1850,  a  society  was  organized  by  a  few 
ladies  for  the  purpose  of  alleviating  the  hardship  and  suffer- 
ing of  the  poor  residing  in  Newburyport.  With  a  small  in- 
come, derived  from  an  annual  tax  on  each  member  and  occa- 
sional donations  of  money  and  clothing  from  friends  of  the 
society,  the  work  of  providing  for  the  sick  and  destitute  was 
carried  on  systematically  and  assiduously  until  June  4,  1856, 
when  Mary  E.  Dimmick,  Margaret  H.  Andrews,  Sarah  J. 
Spalding  and  Mary  C.  Balch,  "  their  associates  and  succes- 
sors," were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  the  General  Charita- 
ble Society  of  Newburyport,  "  for  the  purpose  of  taking,  hold- 
ing, investing  and  distributing  such  funds  as  they  now  have 
or  as  may  hereafter  be  given  them  for  the  charitable  and  be- 
nevolent objects  of  their  association."-* 

Articles  of  agreement  and  a  code  of  by-laws  were  prepared, 
signed  by  members  of  the  society  and  filed  with  the  register 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  559,  leaf  250. 
-  Essex  Deeds,  book  616,  leaf  99. 
3  Acts  and  Resolves,  1867,  chapter  186. 
*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1856,  chapter  281. 


144 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


of  deeds  in  Salem,  February  26,  1859.  Donations  and  be- 
quests amounting  to  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  have  been 
given  to  the  society  from  time  to  time,  as  follows  : — 


In  1857,  from  the  estate  of  Nathaniel  Smith,     . 

1876,  from  Miss  Anna  Jaques,        .... 

1882,  from  Mrs.  Sarah  W.  Hale,  .... 

1883,  from  the  estate  of  Miss  Sarah  A.  Green, 
1890,  from  the  estate  of  Richard  W.  Drown, 

1895,  from  the  estate  of  Rev.  William  O.  Moseley, 

1896,  from  the  estate  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Boardman, 
1901,  from  the  estate  of  Miss  Ann  G.  Toppan, 


$1,850  00 
5,000  00 
2,000  00 
1,850  00 
2,000  00 
3,000  00 
500  00 
9,000  00 

125,200  00 


ANNA    JAQUES    HOSPITAL    ASSOCIATION. 

March  4,  1883,  Miss  Anna  Jaques  of  Newbury  gave  to  Dr. 
Francis  A.  Howe  and  William  H.  Swasey  certain  bonds,  with 
premium  and  accrued  interest,  valued  at  twenty-nine  thousand 
dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  hospital  in  Newbury- 
port.  Land  on  the  corner  of  Broad  and  Monroe  streets  was 
purchased,  with  the  three-story  dwelling  house  thereon, 

March  20,  1884,  the  Anna  Jaques  Hospital  Association  was 
incorporated,  and  the  dwelling  house,  repaired  and  remodeled, 
was  opened  for  the  admission  of  patients  on  the  seventh  of 
May  following. 

June  28,  1904,  new  buildings,  especially  designed  for  hos- 
pital work,  erected  on  Highland  avenue,  were  dedicated  with 
appropriate  exercises,  and  since  that  date  have  been  occupied 
and  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  they  were  built  by  friends 
of  the  association.'  The  old  hospital  on  the  corner  of  Broad 
and  Monroe  streets  was  sold  in  1906,  and  is  now  a  private 
residence. 


1  History  of  Newburypoit  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  241-245. 


YOUNG  MF.X'S  CIIR ISTIAN ASSOCIAriO.Y 


NEWBURVPORT    HOMECEPATHIC    HOSPITAL. 


145 


June  15,  1893,  Albert  Currier,  George  W.  Worcester, 
Charles  F.  Johnson,  David  Foss  and  others  were  incorpo- 
rated, under  chapter  one  hundred  and  fifteen  of  the  Public 
Statutes,  by  the  name  of  the  Newburyport  Homoepathic  Hos- 
pital, for  the  purpose  of  establishing  and  maintaining  one  or 
more  buildings  for  the  use  and  care  of  persons  suffering  from 
injury  or  disease.  Subscribers  to  the  articles  of  agreement 
met  for  organization  on  the  first  day  of  July  following. 

Land  on  High  street,  opposite  Woodland  street,  with  the 
buildings  thereon,  belonging  to  the  estate  of  Capt.  Charles 
Lunt,  was  conveyed  to  the  corporation  March  30,  1903.  The 
hospital  was  dedicated,  with  appropriate  services,  and  opened 
to  the  [)ublic  May  28,  1906.  For  further  details  see  annual 
reports  published  by  the  trustees  of  the  hospital. 

NEWBURVPORT    YOUNG    MEN's    CHRISTIAN    ASSOCIATION. 

In  the  second  story  of  the  brick  building  on  the  south- 
westerly corner  of  State  and  Essex  streets  an  association  was 
organized  in  1876  for  the  moral  and  spiritual  improvement  of 
young  men  residing  within  the  limits  of  Newburyport.  In 
that  building  meetings  were  held  for  two  or  three  years,  and 
afterward  in  rooms  under  Essex  hall,  on  the  opposite  corner 
of  State  and  Essex  streets.  In  1880,  the  association  removed 
to  the  corner  of  Pleasant  street  and  Hale's  court.  It  was  in- 
corporated under  the  general  laws  of  the  commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  September  i,  1884,  by  the  name  of  the  New- 
buryport Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  in  1888  a 
lot  of  land  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of  State  and  Harris 
streets  was  purchased.'  A  convenient  and  commodious  build- 
ing was  erected  thereon  and  presented  to  the  association  April 
17,  1 89 1,  by  the  family  of  the  late  George  H.  Corliss  of 
Providence,  R.  I.- 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  IJ24,  pages  405  and  406. 

•^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  247  and  24S. 


146  HISTOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR T 

The  association  has  no  invested  funds,  being  dependent 
upon  membership  fees  and  voluntary  subscriptions  for  its 
support.  It  receives  a  large  contribution  annually  from  Mrs. 
Corliss  and  smaller  sums  from  others  interested  in  the  work 
of  the  association. 

THE    VOUNG    women's    CHRISTIAN    ASSOCIATION. 

At  a  meeting  held  in  the  vestry  of  the  North  Congrega- 
tional church  October  5,  1883,  the  Women's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  finding  employment  for 
young  women  and  girls,  and  providing  them  with  board  and 
lodging  at  reasonable  rates.  In  the  month  of  November 
following,  by-laws  were  adopted,  rooms  at  No.  62  State,  cor- 
ner of  Pleasant  street  engaged  and  an  employment  bureau 
and  sewing  school  established.  Subsequently,  teachers  were 
provided  for  classes  in  cooking  and  general  housekeeping. 

In  February,  1890,  the  society  was  incorporated,  under  the 
general  laws  of  the  commonwealth,  by  the  name  of  The 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association  of  Newburyport,  and 
three  months  later  a  dwelling  house  on  Market  street,  former- 
ly owned  and  occupied  by  Joseph  A.  Frothingham,  with  the 
land  under  and  adjoining  the  same,  was  purchased  for  the  use 
of  the  association  and  converted  into  a  home  and  lodging 
house  for  young  women.  Inmates  of  the  home  pay  a  small 
sum  weekly  for  room  rent  and  board,  but  the  total  amount  re- 
ceived is  much  less  than  the  annual  expenditure.  The  associ- 
ation is  dependent  upon  the  contributions  of  friends  to  make  up 
this  annual  deficit,  having  a  fund  of  a  few  hundred  dollars  only 
in  addition  to  the  amount  invested  in  the  house  and  land  that 
it  owns  and  occupies. 

NEWBURYPORT    WOOLEN    MANUFACTURING    COMPANY. 

January  29,  1794,  Benjamin  Greenleaf,  Philip  Aubin,  Wil- 
liam Bartlet,  Richard  Bartlet,  Offin  Boardman,  jr.,  Moses 
Brown,  David  Coffin,    William  Coombs,   John  Coombs,  Mark 


XE  ll'B  Ul!  yPOK  T  HOSIER  y  COMPANY 


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Fit;^,  Abel  Grcenlcaf,  John  Greenleaf,  Andrew  Frothingham, 
Michael  H()di;"e,  Nicholas  Johnson,  Nathaniel  Knapp,  Peter 
Le  Breton,  Joseph  Moulton,  Theophilus  Parsons,  P2benezer 
Wheelwright,  Edward  Wiggiesworth  and  others  were  incor- 
porated by  the  name  of  "  The  Proprietors  of  the  Newbury- 
port  Woolen  Manufactory."' 

The  company  purchased  about  six  acres  of  land,  with  a 
water  pri\ilege  on  the  Parker  river,  in  Byfield  parish,  New- 
bur)-,  and  erected  a  factory  there,  which  was  supplied  with 
suitable  machinery  made  by  the  Schofield  Brothers  and  by 
Messrs.  Guppy  &  Armstrong  in  Newbury  port.  It  is  said 
that  the  company  was  the  first  one  incorporated  for  the  man- 
ufacture of  woolen  goods  in  the  United  States.-  The  broad- 
cloths, cassimeres,  serges  and  blankets  made  there  were  sold 
by  William  Bartlet  at  his  store  in  Newburyport.  The  busi- 
ness, however,  was  not  financially  successful,  and  Mr.  Bartlet 
bought  out  the  dissatisfied  stockholders  in  1803.  Next  year, 
he  sold  the  property  to  John  Lees,  an  Englishman,  who  con- 
verted it  into  a  factory  for  the  manufacture  of  cotton  cloth. 

NEWBURYPORT    HOSIERY    COMPANY. 

February  22,  1825,  Edward  S.  Rand,  Thomas  M.  Clark, 
Dudley  A.  Tyng,  Moses  Atkinson,  Edward  Rand,  John 
Wills,  jr.,  and  Ebenezer  Moseley,  their  associates  and  succes- 
sors, were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  the  Newburyport 
Hosiery  Company,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  cotton, 
woolen  and  silk  stockings  by  machinery  in  Newburyport. ^ 

Land  was  purchased  and  a  factory  erected  on  the  easterly 
side  of  Pleasant  street,  opposite  Brown  scpiare.  The  busi- 
ness, however,  proved  to  be  unremimerative,  and  the  property 
was  sold  to  John  Brickett,  Charles  Butler,  Ebenezer  Brad- 
bury, John  O.  W.  Brown,  William  Kimball,    Nathan  Follans- 

'  Acts  and  Ki-solves,  1794,  chapter  27. 

-  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  293-295. 

■*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1824-5,  chapter  88. 


1 4  8  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NEWB  UR  YPOR  T 

bee,  John  Dodge,  jr.,  Moody  Pearson,  William  Davis,  jr.,  and 
others,  who  were  incorporated  February  13,  1829,  by  the 
name  of  The  Newburyport  Hosiery  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  hosiery  and  every 
description  of  "  warp  frame  work."' 

Five  years  later,  the  machinery  and  manufactured  goods  on 
hand  were  sold  at  auction,  and  the  company  was  dissolved.^ 

NEWBURYPORT    SILK    COMPANV. 

March  25,  1836,  Hector  Coffin,  William  Bartlet  and  John 
Porter,  "  their  associates  and  successors,"  were  made  a  cor- 
poration, by  the  name  of  the  Newburyport  Silk  Company,  for 
the  purpose  of  stimulating  and  developing  the  culture  and 
manufacture  of  silk  in  all  its  branches  in  the  towns  of  New- 
buryport, Newbury  and  West  Newbury. ^ 

In  the  month  of  May  following,  the  state  of  Massachusetts 
offered  a  bounty  of  one  dollar  for  every  ten  pounds  of  cocoons 
produced  by  silk  worms  in  the  state,  and  one  dollar  for  every 
pound  of  silk  produced  from  these  cocoons. 

Mulberry  trees  were  planted  in  favorable  localities  in  the 
towns  named  above,  and  the  raising  of  silk  worms  was  carried 
on  to  a  limited  extent,  but  sudden  changes  in  temperature  and 
heavy  rain  storms  during  the  summer  months  interfered  with 
the  development  of  the  cocoons,  and  the  industry,  proving 
unprofitable,  was  abandoned  two  or  three  years  later. 

NEWBURYPORT  STEAM  COTTON  COMPANY. 

In  1835,  a  factory  for  the  manufacture  of  cotton  cloth  was 
erected  near  the  foot  of  Strong  street,  "  on  the  wharf  next 
above  the  Newburyport  bridge."  The  building  was  one  hundred 
and  thirteen  feet  long,  forty  feet  wide  and  three  stories  high, 
with  a  steam  engine  of  forty-horse  power  to  drive  three  thous- 

1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1828-9,  chapter  50. 

^  Advertisement  in  Newburyport  Herald,  April  15,  1834. 

^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1836,   chapter  70. 


BARTLET  STEAM  MILLS 


149 


and  spindles.'  It  was  completed  and  ready  to  commence 
operations  early  in  the  spring  of  1836. 

On  the  eleventh  of  March,  Enoch  S.  Williams,  Samuel  T. 
DeFord  and  Richard  Stone,  their  associates  and  successors, 
were  incorporated  by  the  name  oi  The  Newburyport  Steam 
Cotton  Company,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  cotton 
cloth,  with  a  capital  not  exceeding  two  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars.- Stephen  \V.  Marston  was  elected  president,  William 
Balch,  Tristram  Coffin,  jr.,  and  R.  Stone,  directors,  and 
Enoch  S.  Williams,  agent. ^ 

In  1843,  the  property  was  sold  and  the  company  dissolved, 

THE    ESSEX    STEAM    MILLS. 

February  5,  1844,  James  Read,  George  Gardner  and  Ed- 
mund L.  Le  Breton,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  in- 
corporated by  the  name  of  The  Essex  Steam  Mills,  for  the 
purpose  of  manufacturing  cotton  cloth  in  Newburyport,  with 
a  capital  not  exceeding  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.-' 

They  purchased  the  factory,  built  in  1835  by  the  Newbury- 
port Steam  Cotton  Company,  and  continued  the  manufacture 
of  cotton  cloth  there  from  1844  until  March  6,  1856,  when 
the  building  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

THE    WESSACUMCON,    AFTERWARD    BARTLET    STEAM    MILLS. 

April  7,  1837,  Richard  S.  Spofford,  Samuel  T.  De  Ford  and 
John  Chickering  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The 
Wessacumcon  Steam  Mills,  for  the  purpose  of  manufactur- 
ing cotton  cloth  in  Newburyport. 5  Land  was  purchased 
on  the  corner  of   Pleasant  and  Inn  streets,   and  a  large  brick 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  March  4,  1836. 

-  Acts  and  Resolves,  1836,  chapter  22. 

^  Newburj'port  Herald,  March  4,  1836,  and  Februar)-  3,  1837. 

''  Acts  and  Resolves,  1844,  chapter  16. 

"  Acts  and  Resolves,  1837,  chapter  121. 


ISO 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBVRYPORT 


BARTLET   STEAM    MILLS. 


factory  erected  thereon.      A  bell,  bearing  the  following  inscrip- 
tions, was  hung  in  the  belfry  tower  : — 

Del  Monte  Carmel  Ora  Pro  Nobis 
Ciriacvs  Romans  me  fecit  in  Malaga  Ano  Dei  1723.' 

In  1 840,  the  capital  stock  of  the  company  was  increased  to 
four  hundred  thousand  dollars,  another  brick  factory  was 
erected,  and  the  name  of  the  corporation  was  changed  to  the 
Bartlet  Steam  Mills.-  Both  factories  were  destroyed  by  fire 
March  18,  1881,  and  have  not  been  rebuilt. 

A  photographic  view,  showing  a  part  of  the  factory  built  in 
1837,  with  the  counting  room  adjoining,  is  reproduced  in  the 
above  half-tone  print. 

1  Newbuiyport  Herald,  April  24,  1838.  It  is  said  that  this  bell  was  for  many 
years  on  a  convent  in  Spain.  A  highly  ornamented  cross  and  the  coat-of-arms  of 
a  Roman  bishop  were  cast  on  opposite  sides  of  the  bell,  in  addition  to  the 
inscriptions  quoted  above. 

^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1S40,  chapter  46. 


THE   GLOBE  STEAM  MILLS  jci 

JAMES    STEAM     MILLS. 

January  28,  1842,  Philip  Johnson,  Mark  Symonds,  Robert 
Bayley  and  Charles  T.  James,  "  their  associates  and  succes- 
sors," were  incoriiorated  by  the  name  of  the  James  Steam 
Mills,  for  the  manufacture  of  cotton  cloth.'  A  four-story 
brick  factory  was  erected  between  Charles  and  Salem  streets, 
on  land  extending-  to  Water  street,  and  the  capital  stock  of 
the  company  increased  from  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  in  1842,  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  in 
1844.  The  company  was  dissolved  in  May,  1869,  and  the 
property  subsequently  conveyed  to  a  new  manufacturing  com- 
pany, incorporated  in  1 87 1  by  the  name  of  the  Mascouomet 
Mills. 

In  1876,  the  Masconomet  Mills  company  was  re-organized, 
and  under  the  name  of  Victoria  Mills  continued  to  manufacture 
corset  jeans,  satteens  and  brown  sheetings  until  1897,  when  the 
property  was  sold  to  the  Victoria  Mills  Corporation,  and  two 
years  later  to  the  Peabody  Manufacturing  Company.  It  is  now 
leased  to  the  Warner  Cotton  Mills,  manufacturers  of  cotton 
yarn. 

THE    GLOBE    .STEAM    MILLS. 

March  22,  1845,  Charles  H.  Cofifin,  Edward  S.  Lesley  and 
Albert  Currier,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorpo- 
rated by  the  name  of  The  Globe  Steam  Mills,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  manufacturing  cotton  cloth  in  Newburyport.-  Land 
was  purchased  on  Federal  street,  extending  to  and  including 
land  on  the  corner  of  Independent  and  Water  streets,  and  a 
four-story  brick  factory  erected,  in  1846.  The  capital  stock 
of  the  company  was  increased  from  two  hundred  thousand 
dollars  to  three  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  dollars  early  in 
the  spring  of  that  year.^ 

^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1842,  chapter  3. 
^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1845,  chapter  184. 
■*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1846,  cha]iter  59. 


152 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  IK  YPOR  T 


In  1857,  owing  to  the  severe  business  depression  and  the 
heavy  financial  loss  resulting  therefrom,  it  became  necessary 
to  reduce  the  capital  to  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  in 
1868  the  company  was  re-organized  and  the  name  changed  to 
Peabody  Mills.  In  1872,  the  capital  was  three  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  and  in   1882  four  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Mill  No.  2,  on  the  corner  of  Independent  and  Water 
streets,  was  built  in  1881,  and  new  boilers,  engine  and  other 
machinery  purchased  for  mill  No.  i  at  about  the  same  time. 


I'l,  \l;(Jll^     MANaTFACTl'RINr,    COMPANY    MILLS. 

The  Peabody  Mills  and  Victoria  Mills  were  sold  to  Seth  A. 
Borden  and  others  of  Fall  River,  Mass.,  in  1899,  and  by 
them  conveyed  to  the  Peabody  Manufacturing  Company,  who 
still  own  the  property,  and  have  recently  leased  the  Victoria 
Mills  to  the  Warner  Cotton  Mills,  manufacturers  of  cotton 
yarn  ;  while  the  Peabody  Mills  remain  under  the  management 
and  control  of  the  Peabody  Manufacturing  Company,  Leon- 
tine  Lincoln,  president,  Russell  E.  Briggs,  treasurer. 

The  above  half-tone  print  gives  a  view  of  the  factory  and 
counting  room  on  Federal  street,  built  in  1846. 


THE  OCEAN  STEAM  MILLS  153 

THE    OCEAN    STEAM    MILLS. 

March  21,  1845,  Benjamin  Saunders,  William  C.  Balch  and 
Edward  S.  Lesley,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incor- 
porated by  the  name  of  The  Ocean  Steam  Mills,  for  the 
manufacture  of  cotton  cloth.'  The  company  organized  with 
a  capital  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  dollars,  pur- 
chased land  on  the  corner  of  Kent  and  Monroe  streets,  and 
built  a  four-story  brick  factory  there.  In  1867,  the  capital 
stock  was  increased  to  three  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  dol- 
lars, the  factory  enlarged  and  new  machinery  added.  In 
1 87 1,  the  property  was  sold,  and  a  new  company,  under  the 
name  of  the  Ocean  Mills,  with  three  hundred  thousand 
dollars  capital,  continued  to  manufacture  print  cloth  and  sheet- 
ings there  until  1878,  when  the  property  again  changed  hands, 
and  a  third  company,  called  The  Ocean  Mills  Company, 
with  a  capital  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  was  organ- 
ized, and  in  1880  mill  number  two  was  built.  In  1886,  Seth 
M.  Milliken  of  New  York  and  others  associated  with  him 
purchased  the  property,  and  were  subsequently  incorporated 
by  the  name  of  the  Whitefield  Mills.  The  manufacture 
of  cotton  cloth  was  continued  until  1889,  when  the  machinery 
was  sold  and  removed  to  a  new  factory  erected  in  one  of  the 
Southern  states. 

In  1894,  Uaniel  S.  Burley,  John  P.  Stevens  and  William  H. 
Sargent,  manufacturers  of  boots  and  shoes,  under  the  firm- 
name  of  Burley,  Stevens  &  Co.,  leased  and  occupied  mill 
number  one,  and  the  Bay  State  Cordage  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  tarred  cordage  and  binding  twine,  leased  and  occu- 
pied mill  number  two.-  In  1899,  Mr.  Sargent  withdrew  from 
the  firm  of  Burley,  Stevens  &  Co.,  and  in  1907  the  Bay  State 
Cordage  Company,  having  become  involved  in  financial 
difficulties,     sold   its  machinery  and   retired   from   business. 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1845,  chapter  175. 

*  For  additional  details  see  North  End  Papers,  by  Oliver  B.  Merrill,  in  the  Nevv- 
buryport  Daily  News,  September  i,  1906. 


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Both  mills  are  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Burley  &  Stevens 
in  the  manufacture  of  boots  and  shoes. 

THE    NEWBURYPORT    GAS    AND    ELECTRIC    COMPANY. 

April  4,  1850,  John  Porter,  Thomas  L.  Randlett  and  John 
Wood,  "  their  associates  and  successors,"  were  incorporated 
by  the  name  of  The  Newburyport  Gas  Company.  The 
first  meeting  of  the  stockholders  for  organization  was  held 
June  17,  185  I.  The  erection  of  a  suitable  building  and  the 
laying  of  pipes  for  the  distribution  of  illuminating  gas  was 
completed  in  1852.  The  capital  stock  of  the  company  at 
that  date  was  eighty  thousand  dollars. 

In  1887,  the  Newburyport  Electric  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany was  incorporated,  with  a  capital  of  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  commenced  operations  in  a  new  frame-building, 
erected  for  that  purpose,  near  the  police  station,  in  the  rear  of 
No.  4  Merrimack  street.  In  1890,  the  Newburyport  Gas 
Company  and  the  Newburyport  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company  were  united  and  made  one  corporation  by  the  name 
of  the  Newburyport  Gas  and  Electric  Company,  with  a  capi- 
tal of  one  hundred  and  forty  thousand  dollars.  In  1904,  a 
controlling  interest  in  the  stock  of  this  company  was  pur- 
chased by  Sidney  W.  Winslow,  Andrew  W.  Rogers  and 
others  of  Beverly,  Mass.  The  machinery  used  to  furnish 
electric  light  and  power  was  removed  from  the  wooden  build- 
ing near  the  police  station  to  a  brick  building,  erected  for  that 
purpose,  at  the  gas  works  on  Union  street,  and  the  capital 
increased  in  1906  to  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  thousand 
dollars. 

MERRIMACK    MARINE    RAILWAY    COMPANY. 

April  22,  1869,  Isaac  H.  Boardman,  Charles  M.  Bayley, 
David  Hale,  Isaac  Hale  and  others  were  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  the  Merrimack  Marine  Railway  (Company  of  New- 
buryport, and  authorized  to   construct   a  marine    railway  on 


FIRE  AND  MARINE  INSURANCE 


155 


Ring's  island,  in  the  town  of  Salisbury,    opposite  the   city  of 
Newburyport.' 

Land  was  purchased  and  a  railway  built  during  the  follow- 
ing summer.^  In  1873,  the  railway  was  sold  to  Joseph  L. 
Piper  of  Boston  and  Lemuel  Marquand  of  Newbury  port  .'"^  In 
1876,  Mr.  Piper  conv^eyed  his  interest  in  the  property  to  Mr. 
Marquand,-*  who  continued  to  build  and  repair  vessels  there 
until  1903.5  It  is  now  a  receiving  and  distributing  station  of 
the  Standard  Oil  Company  of  New  York. 

FIRE    AND    MARINE    INSURANCE. 

An  office  for  insuring  ships  and  merchandise  at  sea  was  es- 
tablished in  Boston  by  Joseph  Marion  as  early  as  1724.  Poli- 
cies, similar  in  form  to  those  of  English  underwriters  issued 
at  that  date,  were  signed  by  merchants  and  men  of  property 
who  agreed  to  pay  the  sum  set  against  their  names  in  case  of 
the  total  loss  of  the  vessel  or  cargo  insured. 

In  1776,  probably,  the  first  insurance  office  was  established 
in  Newburyport.^  William  Moreland  was  the  agent  of  the 
Newburyport  underwriters  from  1782  to  1788.^  Michael 
Hodge  was  the  secretary  or  agent  of  a  similar  organization 
from  1787  to  1792,  and  perhaps  longer.'^  Subsequently,  other 
insurance  offices  were  opened  in  Newburyport  under  the 
management  of  John  Pearson,  Henry  Hudson,  Samuel  Cutler 

1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1869,  chapter  184. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  770,  leaf  18 1. 

3  Essex  Deeds,  book  890,  leaf  59. 

•*  Essex  Deeds,  book  964,  leaf  192. 

'"  Essex  Deeds,  book  171 5,  page  283. 

**  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  July  12,  1776;  Historj-  of  New- 
buryport (Gushing),  page  92. 

'  William  Moreland  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1728.  He  married  Anne  Knight 
of  Newburyport  December  4,  1770,  and  lived  for  several  years  in  a  house  on  the 
southwesterly  side  of  High  street,  between  Olive  and  Boardman  streets.  She  died 
November  29,  1789;  and  he  died  June  30,  1818.  Both  were  buried  in  St.  Paul's 
churchyard. 

*  See  T.  &  J.  Fleet's  almanacs. 


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HIS  TOk  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


$200 

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200 

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200 

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1,000 

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200 

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200 

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300 

00 

100 

00 

100 

00 

#2,500 

00 

and  others.  A  policy  found  among  the  papers  of  the  late 
Hon.  Jeremiah  Nelson,  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Histori- 
cal Society  of  Old  Newbury,  reads  in  part  as  follows  : — 

On  the  cargo  of  the  brigantine  Ruby,  from  Newburyport  to  one  or  all 
of  the  West  India  Islands  and  thence  to  port  of  discharge  in  the  United 
States,  $2500  at  5  per  cent., ;?I25  co 

Zebedee  Cook,         underwriter, 

James  Kittell,  " 
John  Wills, 

James  Prince,  " 

Ebenezer  Wheelwright,  " 

Theophilus  Bradbury,  " 

Joseph  Knight,  " 

Peter  Herrick,  " 

Edward  Toppan,  " 


September  ig,  1797,  office  kept  by  Henry  Hudson. 

In  18 1 5,  John  Porter,  an  insurance  broker,  had  an  offi.^e  at 
No.  14  Cornhill,  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  State  street, 
between  Pleasant  street  and  Threadneedle  alley.  In  1825,  he 
remov^ed  to  the  brick  building,  which  was  then  just  completed, 
on  the  corner  of  Middle  and  State  streets.' 

THE    NEWBURYPORT    M.VRIXE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

June  18,  1799,  William  Bartlet,  his  associates  and  succes- 
sors, were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The  Newburyport 
Marine  Insurance  Company,  and  authorized  to  insure  ships 
and  merchandise  "  or  the  life  of  any  person  or  persons  during 
his  or  their  absence  by  sea."^ 

The  first  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  company  was 
held  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Moses  Davenport,  "  Wolfe  Tavern," 
on  the  seventeenth  day  of  July  for  the   election    of  officers. 


1  Newburyport  Herald,  Februaiy  12,  1815,   and  Januaiy  4,  1825. 

2  Acts  and  Resolves,  1798-9,  chapter  6. 


MERRIMACK  FIRE  AND  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY 


157 


William  Bartlet,  William  Coombs,  Moses  Brown,  Ebenezer 
Stocker,  William  P.  Johnson,  Nicholas  Johnson,  William  Kar- 
ris, John  Pettingell,  Tristram  Coffin,  Joshua  Carter,  Jonathan 
Gage  and  Richard  Pike  were  chosen  directors,  and,  subse- 
quently, Ebenezer  Stocker  was  chosen  president,  and  William 
Woart,  secretary.' 

In  18 17,  the  company  was  probably  united  with  "The 
Merrimack  Insurance  Company  ;  "^  and,  February,  2,  1832, 
Edward  S.  Rand  and  Henry  Frothingham  were  appointed 
agents,  or  trustees,  to  re-insure  outstanding  risks,  pay  all 
debts,  close  the  office  and  dissolve  the  company. ^ 


THE    MERRIMACK    FIRE    AND    MARINE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

February  15,  1803,  John  Pearson,  his  associates  and  suc- 
cessors, were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The  Merrimack 
Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  Company,  to  make  insurance  on 
vessels,  freight,  merchandise  and  money  "  and  on  the  life  of 
any  person  during  his  absence  by  sea."-*  Stockholders  were 
requested  to  meet  at  Union  hall,  on  Green  street,  March  9, 
1803,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  the  first  board  of  directors. 5 
Samuel  Cutler,  secretary,  announced,  on  the  eighteenth  of 
March  following,  that  the  company  had  organized  with  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars  capital,  and  was  ready  to  take  risks 
on  ships  and  cargoes. 

In  18 14,  Jeremiah  Nelson,  Stephen  Howard  and  Samuel 
Tenney  were  appointed  a  committee  to  close  up  the  affairs  of 
the  company  and  divide  among  the  stockholders  any  balance 
remaining  after  the  payment  of  outstanding  bills.  ^ 


1  Newburj'port  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  July  i8,  1799. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  April  22,  1817. 

3  Acts  and  Resolves,  183 1 -2,  chapter  20. 

''  Acts  and  Resolves,  1802-3,  chapter  70. 

"  Newburj'port  Herald  and  Country'  Gazette,  March  i,  1803. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  August  2,  1814. 


158  ms TORY  OP  NM WB VR VPOR T 

THE    UNION    MARINE    AND    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

February  27,  1807,  Joseph  Williams,  John  Balch,  and  other 
citizens  of  Newburyport  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of 
The  Union  Marine  and  Fire  Insm^ance  Company  for  the 
term  of  twenty  years,  with  a  capital  stock  not  exceeding  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars.' 

Stockholders  were  notified  to  meet  in  Union  hall,  on  Green 
street,  Wednesday,  April  i,  1807,  for  the  purpose  of  organ- 
izing the  company  and  electing  a  board  of  directors.^  Joseph 
Balch,  the  first  secretary,  had  an  office  "  at  No.  i  Green 
street,"  where  he  had  previously  been  engaged  in  the  insur- 
ance business.'^     William  Woart  was  secretary  in  181 1. 

February  25,  18 15,  the  company  was  authorized  to  sell  its 
real  and  personal  estate  and  appoint  a  committee  to  close  up 
its  affairs  and  apportion  the  funds  remaining  after  the  pay- 
ment of  all  demands  against  the  company,  according  to  the 
number  of  shares  held  by  them  respectively. ■♦ 

PHENIX    MARINE    AND    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

In  1809,  James  Prince,  William  Russel,  Daniel  Richards 
and  Joseph  Williams  of  Newburyport,  "  having  formed  them- 
selves into  a  voluntary  society  or  company  by  the  name  of  the 
Newburyport  Phenix  Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  Company  for 
the  purpose  of  making  insurance  upon  vessels,  freight,  money, 
goods  or  effects,"  organized  with  a  capital  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  and  elected  James  Prince,  president,  and 
Benjamin  Clanin,  secretary. ^ 

Land  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  State  street  was  pur- 
chased of  John  O'Brien,  and  a  large  brick  building  erected 
and  occupied  by  the  company.''     An   old  engraving  giving  a 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1806-7,  chapter  89. 

-  Newburyport  Herald,  March  10,  1807. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  May  6,  1806,  and  June  5,  1807. 

"*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1814-5,  chapter  124. 

'■'  Newburyport  Herald,  August  14,  iSio. 

"  Essex  Deeds,  book  186,  leaf  238. 


THE  MERRIMACK  INSURANCE  COMPANY 


IS9 


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I  >  ihp  Grr.'t  Fire.  Mav  31.  1811 


PHENIX    INSURANCE   COMPANY    BUILDING. 

view  of  this  building',  which  was  destroyed  by  the  great  fire 
in  1 8 1 1 ,  is  reproduced  in  the  above  half-tone  print. 

Owing  to  heavy  losses  incurred  by  the  fire,  the  company 
was  obliged  to  discontinue  business,  and  settle  with  its  cred- 
itors. In  1 8 12,  a  dividend  of  seventy-five  dollars,  for  every 
one  hundred  dollars  invested,  was  paid  to  the  stockholders  of 
the  company.' 

The  capture  of  American  vessels  by  French  and  English 
privateers,  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  the  claims  arising  there- 
from, delayed  the  final  settlement  of  the  affairs  of  the  company 
until  the  year  1835  or  later.- 

THE    MERRIMACK    INSURANCE    COMPANY,      1814-1834. 

February  i,  1814,  WiUiam  Bartlet,  Jeremiah  Nelson  and 
Nicholas  Pike,   their  associates  and  successors,   were  incorpo- 

1  Xewburyport  Herald,  November  17,  181 2. 

'•'  See  advertisement,  signed  William  Currier,  jr.,  secretary,  in  the  Newburyport 
Herald,  June  i,  1835. 


1 60  HIS  TOR  Y  Of  NE IVB  UK  YPOR  T 

rated  by  the  name  of  The  Merrimack  Insurance  Company, 
and  authorized  to  insure  vessels,  freight,  merchandise  and 
"  the  hfe  of  any  person  during  his  absence  by  sea  "'  The 
act  of  incorporation  also  provided  that  the  Newburyport  ^la- 
rine  Insurance  Company  and  the  Merrimack  Marine  and 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  in  Newburyport,  "  may,  at  any 
meeting  duly  called  therefor,  dissolve  their  respective  cor- 
porations." March  i,  18 15,  the  provisions  of  this  act  were 
continued,  established  and  confirmed.' 

Thomas  M.  Clark  was  president,  and  Samuel  Tenney,  secre- 
tary, of  the  company  for  many  years.  In  1832,  a  committee 
was  a[)pointed  to  re-insure  outstanding  risks,  and  in  1834  the 
charter  of  the  company  expired  by  limitation. 

NEWBURYPORT    MUTUAL    FISHING    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

In  1828,  the  merchants  and  ship-owners  of  Newburyport 
formed  an  association  for  the  insurance  of  vessels  engaged  in 
fishing  on  the  coast  of  Labrador  or  on  the  banks  of  New- 
foundland. At  the  close  of  the  year  an  assessment  was  levied 
and  collected  to  cover  the  loss  on  property  insured. 

The  association  was  re-organized  annually,  with  Charles  J. 
Brockway,  secretary,  and  continued  to  do  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive business  until  1836.^ 

THE    NEWBURYPORT    MUTUAL    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

February  11,  1829,  Ebenezer  Moseley,  Luther  Waterman, 
John  Greenleaf,  William  Bartlet,  Moses  Davenport,  William 
Davis,  William  C.  Williams,  Aaron  Davis,  Enoch  Osgood, 
Samuel  Newman,  Thomas  M.  Clark  and  their  associates,  suc- 
cessors and  assigns  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The 
Newburyport  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company,  for  the  pur- 

1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1813-4,  chapter  82. 
^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1S14-5,  chapter  160. 

^  See  Newburyport  Herald,  March  27,  1828,   December  20,  1830,   February  14, 
1832,  Jamiaiy  i,  and  April  27,  1833,   May  13,  1835,   and  April  15,  1836. 


THE  MERCHANTS  IXSUKAXCE  COMPANY  i6i 

pose  of  insuring  buildings,  furniture,  books,  merchandise  and 
other  property  for  the  term  of  twenty-eight  years.' 

Jeremiah  Nelson  was  chosen  president  May  i6,  1829,  and 
annually  re-elected  until  May,  1836,  when  he  declined  to 
accept  the  office  and  John  Merrill  was  chosen  to  fill  the 
vacancy. 

The  act  incorporating  the  company  was  extended,  and  con- 
tinued in  force  to  the  present  time  by  acts  passed  by  the 
General  Court  in  1857  and  1875.- 

THE    MERCHANTS    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

March  12,  1831,  William  Bartlet,  John  Wills,  John  Wood, 
Robert  Jenkins,  John  N.  Gushing,  David  Noyes,  Benjamin 
Hale,  William  Balch,  Stephen  Tilton,  Henry  Johnson,  Amos 
Noyes,  Henry  Frothingham,  Samuel  Nichols,  Eleazer  Johnson 
and  Edmund  Swett,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  in- 
corporated by  the  name  of  The  Merchants  Insurance  Com- 
pany, to  be  located  in  Newburyport,  for  the  purpose  of  insur- 
ing against  maritime  and  fire  losses.^  John  Porter  was 
elected  president,  and  Joel  Scott,  secretary,  of  the  company. 
In  1836,  having  met  with  heavy  losses,  the  stockholders  voted 
to  pay  the  unsettled  claims  in  full,  with  interest,  and  dissolve 
the  company. 

THE    NEWBURYPORT    INSURANCE     COMPANY. 

March  25,  1836,  John  Merrill,  Philip  Johnson  and  Samuel 
Pettingell,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorporated 
by  the  name  of  The  Newburyport  Insurance  Company,  for 
the  purpose  of  insuring  against  losses  at  sea  and  by  fire  for 
the  term  of  twenty  years.-*     March  4,  1837,  a  supplementary 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1828-9,  chapter  48. 

-  Acts  and  Resolves.  1857,  chapter  3;    and  1875,  chapter  34. 

■'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1 830-1,  chapter  82. 

■"  Acts  and  Resolves,  1836,  chapter  69. 


1 6  2  f^IS  TORY  OF  NEWB  UR  YPOR  T 

act  of  the  General  Court  extended  the   time  previously  fixed 
for  the  payment  of  the  capital  stock  to  March  25,  1838/ 

No  record  or  report  of  the  organization  of  this  company 
has  been  found.  John  Merrill  was  elected  president  of  the 
Newburyport  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  May,  1836  ; 
and  probably  he  and  his  friends  declined  to  take  stock  in  the 
new  corporation. 

THE    ESSEX    MARINE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

February  21,  1839,  John  Porter,  Benjamin  W,  Hale  and 
Isaac  H.  Boardman,  their  associates  and  successors,  were 
incorporated  by  the  name  of  The  Essex  Marine  Insurance 
Company,  to  be  established  in  Newburyport,  for  the  purpose 
of  insuring  against  maritime  losses  in  the  customary  manner.^ 
The  company  organized  and  commenced  business  with  a  capi- 
tal stock  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The  office  was  closed  by 
a  vote  of  the  directors  in  1844. 

THE    MERRIMACK    INSURANCE    COMPANY,     185I. 

May  17,  185  I,  Edward  S.  Moseley,  Micajah  Lunt  and  John 
Wood,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorporated  by 
the  name  of  The  Merrimack  Insurance  Company,  to  be 
established  in  the  town  of  Newburyport,  for  the  purpose  of 
insuring  .against  maritime  losses.^ 

This  company  probably  never  was  organized.  If  of^cers 
were  elected  no  evidence  of  the  fact  has  been  discovered. 

UNION    MUTUAL    MARINE    INSURANCE     COMPANY. 

April  24,  1852,  Samuel  Hale,  Moody  A.  Thurlo  and  Isaac 
H.  Boardman,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorpo- 
rated by  the  name  of  The  Union   Mutual  Marine  Insurance 

1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1837,  chapter  36. 

2  Acts  and  Resolves,  1839,  chapter  29. 

^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1851,  chapter  174. 


XE  \VB  I  'R  yPOR  T  JIEAL  Til  IXSURAXCE  COM  P.  I  VV  163 

Company,    in    Newburyport,    for    the    purpose    of    insuring 
against  maritime  losses.' 

This  company  was  dissolved  and  its  charter  surrendered 
in  1857. 

MERCHANTS    MUTUAL    MARINE    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

February  17,  1857,  Isaac  H.  Boardman,  Samuel  Hale  and 
Jacob  Horton,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorpo- 
rated by  the  name  of  the  Merchants  Mutual  Marine  Insur- 
ance Company,  for  the  purpose  of  insuring,  in  the  city  of 
Newburyport,  for  the  term  of  twenty-eight  years,  ships, 
freights  and  merchandise.- 

In  1872,  the  company  was  dissolved,  outstanding  risks  re- 
insured, and  the  net  profits  divided  among  the  stockholders. 

NEWBURYPORT    HEALTH    INSURANCE    COMPANY. 

May  10,  1848,  Richard  S.  Spofford,  John  Atkinson  and  A.W. 
Wildes,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorporated  by 
the  name  of  the  Newburyport  Health  Insurance  Company, 
for  the  purpose  of  insuring  doctors,  lawyers,  tradesmen  and 
mechanics  against  loss  of  time  or  wages  by  accident  or 
illness. 3 

The  company  organized  at  a  meeting  held  in  Washington 
hall  May  27,  1848,  and  opened  an  office  for  the  transaction  of 
business  soon  after  that  date.  Subsequently,  an  earnest  effort 
was  made  to  increase  the  amount  of  the  capital  stock  in  order 
to  protect  the  policy  holders  and  place  the  company  on  a  firmer 
financial  basis,  but  the  plan  was  not  received  with  favor,  and 
finding  the  business  unprofitable  the  company  was  dissolved 
a  year  or  two  later. 

'  Acts  and  Resolves.  1852,  chapter  145. 
-  Acts  and  Resolves,  1857,  chapter  7. 
•'  Acts  and  Resolves.  1S48,  chapter  300. 


1 64  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

MERRIMACK    BANK. 

June  25,  1795,  William  Bartlct,  Moses  Brown,  Tristram 
Coffin,  William  Coombs,  Nicholas  Johnson,  George  Searls  and 
Ebenezer  Stoker,  their  associates,  successors  and  assigns, 
were,  by  an  act  of  the  legislature,  "  created  and  made  a  cor- 
poration by  the  name  of  "  The  President  and  Directors  of  the 
Merrimack  Bank,"  and  shall  so  continue  from  the  first  day  of 
July  next  until  the  expiration  of  ten  years  next  following."' 
The  act  of  incorporation  also  provided  that  the  bank  should 
be  located  in  Newburyport,  and  that  the  capital  stock  should 
not  exceed  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  February 
21,  1800,  the  president  and  directors  were  authorized  to  in- 
crease the  capital  stock  to  a  sum  not  exceeding  "  Two  Hun- 
dred and  Fifty  Thousand  Dollars  in  specie."^  William  Bart- 
let  was  president  of  the  bank  and  Joseph  Cutler,  cashier. 

NEWBURYPORT    BANK    (SUCCESSOR    TO    MERRIMACK  BANK). 

March  8,  1803,  Micajah  Sawyer,  Michael  Hodge,  John 
Greenleaf,  Joshua  Carter,  Israel  Young,  Thomas  Cary,  jr., 
Charles  Jackson,  Samuel  Allyne  Otis  and  Dudley  Atkins 
Tyng,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  incorporated  by 
the  name  of  "  The  President,  Directors  and  Company  of  the 
Newbury  Port  Bank,"  with  a  capital  not  exceeding  two  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  divided  into  shares  of  one  hundred 
dollars  each.^  Stockholders  were  notified  by  William  W. 
Prout,  cashier,  that  the  first  instalment  of  fifty  dollars  per 
share  was  payable  May  thirtieth.'*  In  1805,  liberty  to  increase 
the  capital  stock  to  a  sum  not  exceeding  two  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  was  granted  by  the  General  Court. ^ 
The  charter  of  the  Merrimack  Bank  having  expired  by  lim- 

'  Acts  and  Resolves  (edition,  1807),  volume  II,  page  692. 
-  Acts  and  Resolves  (edition,  1807),  volume  II,  page  891. 
^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1802-3,  chapter  140. 
*  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  May  10,  1803, 
'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1805,  chapter  5. 


NE  ]VB  UR  YPOR  T  BANK  1 65 

itation  in  June  of  that  year,  the  stockholders  were  allowed  to 
exchange  one  or  more  shares  of  stock  in  that  bank  for  the 
same  number  of  shares  in  the  Newburyport  Bank.' 

NEWBURYPOKT    BANK    (UNDER    SECOND    CHARTER). 

June  23,  1812,  William  Bartlet,  Joshua  Carter,  Thomas  M. 
Clark,  Abner  Wood  and  Ebenezer  Wheelwright,  their  asso- 
ciates and  successors,  were  made  a  corporation  by  the  name 
of  "  The  President,  Directors  and  Company  of  the  Newbury- 
port Bank,"  to  be  established  in  Newburyport,  with  a  capital 
of  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.^ 

October  13,  18 14,  the  capital  stock  of  the  bank  was  re- 
duced to  two  hundred  and  ten  thousand  dollars.^  William 
Bartlet  was  president,  and  Samuel  Mulliken,  cashier,  for 
many  years. 

June  15,  183 1,  the  president  and  directors  of  the  bank 
were  authorized  and  directed  to  reduce  its  liabilities  and  settle 
all  outstanding  accounts  within  three  years,  "  in  the  same 
manner,  and  to  every  intent  and  purpose,  as  if  the  act  incor- 
porating said  company  had  expired  by  its  own  limitation. "■♦ 

NEWBURYPORT    BANK    (UNDER    THIRD    CHARTER). 

April  9,  1836,  Enoch  S.  Williams,  John  Bradbury  and 
Samuel  T.  DeFord,  their  associates  and  successors,  were  in- 
corporated by  the  name  of  "  The  President,  Directors  and 
Company  of  the  Newburyport  Bank,"  with  a  capital  of  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  divided  into  shares  of  fifty  dollars 
each. 5 

Stephen  W.  Marston  was  elected  president,  and  John  Mer- 
rill, cashier.  The  half-tone  print  on  the  next  page,  giving  a 
view  of  Market  square  and  the  custom   house,  is   reproduced 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  June  25,  1805. 
-  Acts  and  Resolves,  181 1-2,  chapter  50. 
^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1 814,  chapter  59. 
■■  Acts  and  Resolves,  1 83 1 ,  chapter  2  2 . 
*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1836,  chapter  200. 


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MER  CHANTS  NA  TIONA L  BANK  1 6  7 

from  a  bank  note  now  in  the  possession  of   Henry   B.    Little, 
esq. 

Owing  to  the  impairment  of  its  capital  stock,  the  bank  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  receivers  in  April,  1841,  and  March  3, 
1842,  its  charter  was  repealed  and  cancelled.'  In  1845,  the 
claims  of  bill  holders  were  paid  in  full,  but  stockholders  were 
obliged  to  submit  to  a  heavy  loss.' 

MECHAMCKS    NATIONAL    BANK. 

June  23,  18 12,  John  O'Brien,  James  Prince,  William  Rus- 
sell, Joshua  Little,  William  Davis,  Abraham  Williams,  John 
Brickett,  James  Horton  and  Oilman  Frothingham,  their  asso- 
ciates and  successors,  were  made  a  corporation  by  the  name 
of  *'  The  President,  Directors  and  Company  of  the  Mechan- 
icks  Bank  "  for  the  term  of  nineteen  years,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  not  less  than  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  divided 
into  shares  of  one  hundred  dollars  each.^ 

In  November,  1864,  the  bank  was  reorganized  and  made  a 
national  bank,  with  a  capital  of  two  "hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars.  In  1894,  the  stockholders  voted  to  reduce  the 
capital  to  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  and 
in  June,  1900,  decided  to  wind  up  its  affairs  and  convey  the 
bank  building,  No.  5  i  State  street,  with  other  available  assets, 
to  the  Ocean  National  Bank  of  Newburyport. 

MERCHANTS    NATIONAL    BANK. 

March  18,  183 1,  William  Bartlet,  John  Wills,  John  Wood, 
Robert  Jenkins,  John  N.  Gushing,  Benjamin  Hale,  William 
Balch,  Stephen  Tilton,  Henry  Johnson,  Amos  Noyes,  David 
Noyes,  Henry  Frothingham,  Samuel  Nichols,  Eleazer  John- 
son and  Edmund  Swett,  their  associates  and  successors,  were 
incorporated  by  the  name  of  "  The  President,   Directors  and 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1842,  chapter  97. 
-  Newburyport  Herald,  July  15,  1845. 
•'  Acts  and  Resolves,  181 1-2,  chapter  46, 


1 6  8  ^^S  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Company  of  the  Merchants  Bank  of  Newburyport,"  with  a 
capital  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  di- 
vided into  shares  of  fifty  dollars  each.'  March  25,  1833,  the 
bank  was  authorized  to  increase  its  capital  to  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars.^ 

Owing  to  heavy  losses,  this  capital  was  reduced  to  two  hun- 
dred and  ten  thousand  dollars  February  23,  1844,^  and  still 
further  reduced  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  dollars, 
with  a  par  value  of  twenty  dollars  per  share,  when  the  bank 
was  reorganized  as  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  in  April, 
1865. 


OCEAN    NATIONAL    BANK. 

March  20,  1833,  William  Davis,  Richard  Stone,  Henry 
Titcomb,  jr.,  Stephen  Thurston  and  Joseph  Knapp,  "  their 
associates  and  successors,"  were  incorporated  by  the  name  of 
"  the  President,  Directors  and  Company  of  the  Ocean  Bank," 
with  a  capital  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  divided  into 
shares  of  one  hundred  dollars  each.'*  In  February,  1844, 
liberty  to  reduce  the  capital  stock  to  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  the  par  value  of  shares  to  fifty  dollars  each,  was 
granted  by  the  General  Court. 5 

In  1865,  the  bank  was  reorganized,  with  a  capital  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  under  an  act  passed  by 
congress  June  3,  1864,  "to  provide  a  national  currency  se- 
cured by  a  pledge  of  United  States  bonds  ;"  and  in  June,  1900, 
it  was  consolidated  with  the  Mechanicks  National  Bank,  and 
removed  from  No.  19  Market  square  to  No.  51  State  street, 
where  it  is  at  present  located. 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1 830-1,  chapter  116. 
-  Acts  and  Resolves,  1833,  chapter  158. 
^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1844,  chapter  29. 
■*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1833,  chapter  136. 
*  Acts  and  Resolves,  1844,  chapter  35. 


FIRST  NATIOXAL  BANK  169 

FIRST    NATIONAL    BANK. 

"  An  act  to  provide  a  national  currency  secured  by  a  pledge 
of  United  States  bonds  and  to  provide  for  the  circulation  and 
redemption  thereof  "  was  passed  by  congress  February  25, 
1863.  Only  a  few  banks  were  organized  in  Massachusetts 
under  this  act.  On  the  first  day  of  February,  1864,  a  few 
individuals,  interested  in  financial  affairs  and  anxious  to 
strengthen  and  uphold  the  government  in  its  struggle  for  ex- 
istence, met  in  the  counting  room  of  the  Globe  Steam  Mills 
in  Newburyport,  and  after  a  brief  conference,  decided  to  or- 
ganize a  national  bank  with  a  capital  of  two  hundred  thousand 
dollars.  Articles  of  association  were  adopted,  signed  and 
sent  to  Washington,  D.  C,  but  owing  to  some  informalities, 
they  were  not  accepted  by  the  comptroller  of  the  currency. 
At  a  special  meeting  of  the  stockholders,  held  on  the  twenty- 
second  of  February,  revised  articles  of  association  were 
adopted,  and  Charles  H.  Cofifin,  Eben  Sumner,  Henry  Cook, 
Robert  Bayley,  David  Hale,  Edward  H.  Little,  Alexander  D. 
Brown,  Mark  Symonds  and  Enoch  M.  Reed  were  elected  di- 
rectors. A  few  days  later,  a  certificate,  incorporating  the 
directors  by  the  name  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  New- 
buryport, was  received  from  Hugh  McCulloch,  comptroller  of 
the  currency.  Charles  H.  Cofifin  was  elected  president,  aftd 
Jacob  Stone,  cashier  ;  and  on  the  first  day  of  March  the  bank 
began  business  in  the  second  story  of  the  Mechanicks  Bank 
building,  in  the  rear  of  the  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank.  Sub- 
sequently, more  commodious  banking  rooms  were  secured  and 
fitted  up  at  No.  16  State  street,  in  a  building  then  owned  by 
Moses  Kimball. 

In  June,  1864,  important  changes  were  made  in  the  act  es- 
tablishing national  banks,  and  a  tax  of  ten  per  cent  was  im- 
posed on  all  bills  issued  by  state  banks  after  July  i,  1866. 
Stimulated  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  First  National 
Bank  increased  its  capital  stock  from  two  hundred  to  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars  November  21,  1864,  and  soon  after 


1 7  o  HIST  OR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

that  date  the  Mechanicks,  Merchants  and  Ocean  banks  of 
Newburyport  considered  it  advisable  to  reorganize  as  national 
banks. 

Owing  to  severe  business  depression  in  1887,  the  capital 
stock  of  the  F'irst  National  Bank  was  reduced  to  one  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  at  which  sum  it  has  remained  until 
the  present  time. 

INSTITUTION    FOR    SAVINGS    IN    NEWBURYPORT. 

January  31,  1820,  William  Bartlet,  Moses  Brown,  John 
Pettingell,  John  Pearson,  Thomas  M.  Clark,  Edward  Rand, 
Edward  S.  Rand,  William  B.  Bannister,  Stephen  Howard, 
Thomas  Carter,  Joshua  Carter,  Ebenezer  Moseley,  Ebenezer 
Wheelwright,  Peter  Le  Breton,  Jonathan  Gage,  P'rancis 
Vergnies,  Nathan  Noyes,  Oliver  Prescott,  Nathaniel  Brad- 
street,  Joseph  S.  Pike  and  PhiUp  Bagley,  were  incorporated  by 
the  name  of  The  Institution  for  Savings  in  Newburyport 
and  its  Vicinity,  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  money  on  de- 
posit and  investing  the  same  "  to  the  best  advantage  of  the 
owners  thereof."  ' 

The  first  meeting  of  the  corporation  was  held  on  the 
twenty-first  of  March  following.  William  B.  Bannister  was 
elected  president,  Jeremiah  Nelson,  Thomas  M.  Clark  and 
Thomas  Carter,  vice-presidents,  Peter  Le  Breton,  treasurer, 
and  Samuel  Tenney,  secretary. 

At  twelve  o'clock,  noon,  on  the  fifth  of  April,  "  in  the 
selectmen's  room  under  the  Town  Hall,"  on  the  southw^esterly 
corner  of  State  and  Essex  streets,  the  bank  was  opened  for 
business.^  Several  years  later,  it  occupied  rooms  in  the  sec- 
ond story  of  the  brick  building  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of 
State  and  Pleasant  streets.  After  the  sale  of  the  town  hall 
to  Thomas  Davis,  in  May,  1845,  ^"^^  bank  was  removed  to 
that  building.     In    1856,   it  occupied  chambers  in  the  Mer- 

'  Acts  and  Resolves,  1819-20,  chapter  85. 
'^  Newburyport  Herald,  April  6,  1820. 


A'E  IVB I  *R  YPOR  T  CO-  0  PER  A  TI VE  SANK  i  7 1 

chants  Bank  building-  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of  State 
and  Charter  streets,  and  remained  there  until  early  in  the 
spring  of  1872,  when  it  was  removed  to  a  new  and  commodi- 
ous building,  opposite  Wolfe  tavern,  on  State  street,  where  it 
is  located  at  the  present  time. 

THE    NEWBURYPORT    FI\'E    CENTS    SAVINGS    BANK. 

April  24,  1854,  Dudley  D.  Tilton,  John  Balch,  Edward  S. 
Lesley,  John  Porter,  Daniel  P.  Pike,  Benjamin  I.  Lane,  Luther 
F.  Dimmick,  Daniel  M.  Reed,  Samuel  J.  Sjialding,  William 
C.  Balch  and  Richard  Plumer,  "  their  associates  and  succes- 
sors," were  incorporated  by  the  name  of  The  Newburyport 
Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  and  were  authorized  to  receive 
on  deposit  sums  as  small  as  five  cents.  Joseph  B.  Morss  was 
elected  president,  James  Horton,  treasurer,  and  Daniel  P. 
Pike,  secretary.  The  bank  was  opened  for  business  in  rooms 
over  the  store  of  Joseph  A.  Frothingham,  on  State  street, 
June  19,  1854,  and  a  few  years  later  was  removed  to  No.  53 
State  street,  occupying  rooms  over  the  Mechanicks  Bank.  In 
1873,  land  was  purchased,  and  the  next  year  a  building 
erected  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  the  street,  nearly  opposite 
Charter  street,  where  the  bank  is  now  located. 

NEWBURYPORT    CO-OPERATIVE    BANK. 

March  6,  1888,  an  association  of  twenty-five  or  more  per- 
sons was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  the  accumu- 
lation of  savings  and  providing  for  the  investment  of  the  same 
at  a  fair  rate  of  interest.  On  the  fifteenth  of  March  followins:, 
the  association  was  incorporated,  under  the  one  hundred  and 
seventeenth  chapter  of  the  Public  Statutes,  by  the  name  of 
the  Newburyport  Co-operative  Bank  Association.  Lieut.-gov. 
J.  Q.  A.  Brackett  and  others  interested  in  similar  organiza- 
tions in  the  state  of  Massachusetts  explained  the  principles 
and  provisions  of  the  law  relating  to  the  incorporation  of 
banks  and  the  making  of  loans,  at  a  public    meeting  held  in 


172 


HISTORY  Of  NEWBURYPORT 


City  hall  on  the  evening  of  April  ninth,  and  subscriptions 
were  received  and  several  small  loans  made  at  the  close  of  the 
meeting. 

Rooms  were  engaged  in  the  second  story  of  a  building  on 
the  northwesterly  side  of  State  street,  opposite  Essex  street, 
and  the  bank  began  business  there  in  the  month  of  May  fol- 
lowing. In  1904,  it  was  removed  to  rooms  in  the  Essex  Hall 
building  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of  State  and  Essex  streets. 

NEWBURYPORT    ATHEN.EUM,     1809-1849. 

In  1809,  an  association  "for  the  purpose  of  promoting 
learning  and  diffusing   useful  knowledge  "  was   organized  in 


^  t 


Newburyport  Atheneum. 

/ 


BOOK-PLATE. 


Newburyport.  The  trustees  of  the  association,  "  with  such 
other  person  or  persons  as  shall  from  time  to  time  be  admit- 
ted members  of  the  association,"  were  incorporated  February 
24,  1 8 10,  by  the  name  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Newbury- 
port Athenaeum.' 

A  library  containing  ten  or  twelve   thousand   volumes  was 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  520. 


NE WB UR yPOR T  I.INNEAX  SOCIETY 


173 


established.  On  the  inside  cover  of  each  vokime  was  an  en- 
graved book-plate,  representing  an  eagle  about  to  rise  from  a 
pile  of  rocks,  and  carrying  in  his  beak  a  ribbon  with  the  words 
"  Newburyport  Athenaeum  "  upon  it,  as  shown  in  the  half- 
tone print  on  the  preceding  page  ;  also  a  printed  label  bearing 
the  number  of  the  book  to  which  it  was  affixed. 

The  Newburyport  Athenaeum  was  dissolved,  and   its  books 
sold  at  auction,  in  1849. 


NEWBURYPORT    LINNEAN    SOCIETY. 

A  society  for  the  study  of  natural  history  and  antiquities 
was  organized  in  Newburyport  in  1820.'  Meetings  for  the 
discussion  of  scientific  and  historical  subjects  were  held,  and 
a  small  collection  of  curious  and  interesting  objects  was  made 
and  carefully  classified. 

The  society  was  incorporated  March  23,  1836,  by  the  name 
of  The  Newburyport  Linnean  Society,  and  authorized  to 
hold  real  estate  valued  at  not  more  than  five  thousand  dol- 
lars and  personal  estate  not  exceeding  ten  thousand  dollars.^ 

Pictures,  portraits,  wax  statuary,  Indian  arrow  heads,  min- 
erals, with  household  utensils  and  specimens  of  pewter  and 
silver  ware,  were  added  to  the  collection,  and  visitors  were 
admitted  to  the  rooms  of  the  society  every  day,  Sundays  ex- 
cepted, upon  the  payment  of  a  small  fee.  This  plan,  popular 
and  profitable  at  first,  soon  proved  to  be  unremunerative,  and 
the  entire  collection  of  paintings,  statuary  and  natural  curiosi- 
ties was  sold  at  public  auction  February  19,  1845.  Most  of 
the  oil  paintings,  wax  statuary,  etc.,  were  purchased  by  Moses 
Kimball  for  the  Boston  Museum. ^ 


'  History' of  Newbun'port  (Gushing),  page   71;    History    of  Newburyport   (Mrs. 
E.  Vale  Smith),  page  399. 

^  Acts  and  Resolves,  1836,  chapter  58. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  February  21,  1845. 


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HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


NEWBURYPORT    LYCEUM. 


For  the  purpose  of  promoting  and  stimulating"  the  intellec- 
tual and  moral  growth  of  the  community,  the  Newburyport 
Lyceum  was  organized  November  28,  1829.  Rev.  Daniel 
Dana  was  chosen  president,  Rev.  Leonard  Withington  and 
Rev.  James  Morss,  vice-presidents,  Jacob  Stone,  jr.,  treas- 
urer, William  S,  Allen,  corresponding  secretary,  and  Edward 
L.  Le  Breton,  recording  secretary. 

At  the  first  public  meeting  of  the  association,  held  Friday 
evening,  December  18,  1829,  in  the  Federal  street  meeting- 
house, Rev.  Leonard  Withington  delivered  the  address. 

The  second  meeting  was  held  Tuesday  evening,  December 
twenty-ninth,  in  Town  hall,  on  the  corner  of  State  and  Essex 
streets.  At  that  meeting,  Dr.  Henry  C.  Perkins  read  an 
interesting  paper  on  the  subject  of  "  Heat." 

Subsequent  meetings  were  held  in  Reverend  Doctor  Dana's 
meeting-house,  on  Harris  street,  in  the  Methodist  meeting- 
house, on  Liberty  street,  in  the  Newbury  town  house,  and 
after  September  i,  1832,  in  Lyceum  hall,  on  High  street,  op- 
posite the  head  of  Fruit  street.  From  November,  1838, 
until  November,  185 1,  lectures  were  delivered  as  often  as 
once  a  week,  during  the  winter  months,  in  Market  hall,  and 
from  1852  to  1876,  in  City  hall,  on  the  corner  of  Pleasant 
and  Green  streets. 

Nehemiah  Cleaveland  gave  a  series  of  lectures  on  chemistry. 
Mr.  Jacob  Stone  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Life  and  W^ritings 
of  Oliver  Goldsmith,"  and  Mr.  James  F.  Otis  delivered 
an  appropriate  and  appreciative  address  on  "  Robert  Burns." 
Other  lecturers,  previous  to  1850,  were  Rev.  Leonard  With- 
ington, on  "Inductive  Reasoning";  Caleb  Gushing,  on  the 
"  Regeneration  of  France "  ;  Henry  C.  Perkins,  on  the 
"  Theory  and  Nature  of  Eclipses  "  ;  Ebenezer  Moseley,  on 
"The  Life  of  Cicero";  David  P.  Page,  on  "Animal  In- 
stinct," "Acoustics"  and  "The  Weather";  Caleb  Gush- 
ing, on  "  Spain  "  and  the  "  Polish  Revolution  "  ;  Rev.  James 


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175 


Morss,  on  the  "  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  "  ;  Hon.  Rufus 
Choate,  on  the  "  Waverly  Novels  "  ;  George  Lunt,  on  "  Wal- 
ter Scott  "  ;  Rev.  Thomas  B.  Fox,  on  "  Forest  Trees  "  ;  Rev. 
Thomas  M.  Clark,  on  "  Popular  Educators  "  ;  Rev.  William 
S.  Bartlet,  on  "  William  Shakespeare  ";  and  Rev.  John  C. 
March,  on  the  "•  Crusades."  Dr.  Francis  V.  Noyes,  Roger 
S.  Howard  and  Wilham  S.  Allen  of  Newburyport,  Samuel  M. 
Felton  of  Cambridge  and  other  men  of  literary  ability  in 
Salem,  Andover  and  neighboring  towns  in  Essex  county  were 
included  in  the  list  of  lecturers.  At  a  later  date,  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  Edwin  P.  Whipple, 
Wendell  Phillips,  James  Russell  Lowell,  George  W.  Curtis, 
Thomas  Starr  King,  Theodore  Parker,  John  B.  Gough,  Park 
Benjamin,  Anson  Burlingame,  Rev.  John  Pierpont  of  Med- 
ford,  Hon.  Thomas  H.  Benton  of  Missouri,  Hon.  Sam  Hous- 
ton of  Texas,  Hon.  Albert  Pike  of  Arkansas,  Hon.  Joshua  R. 
Giddings  of  Ohio,  Hon.  John  P.  Hale  of  New  Hampshire 
and  others,  distinguished  orators,  poets  and  statesmen,  dis- 
cussed the  .social  and  political  problems  of  the  day  at  the 
regular  meetings  of  the  association. 

Rev.  Leonard  Withington  was  president  of  the  Lyceum 
Association  in  1830,  Rev.  James  Morss  in  183 1,  Hon.  George 
Lunt  in  1834  and  David  P.  Page  in  1841.  Other  prominent 
citizens  of  Newburyport  held  the  office  until  November,  1876, 
when  the  association  was  dissolved  for  lack  of  financial 
support. 

MERRIMACK    LIBRARY    ASSOCIATION. 

February  3,  1852,  a  meeting  was  held  in  the  ward  room  at 
City  hall  for  the  purpose  of  maturing  a  plan  for  the  purchase 
of  books  for  a  public  library  and  establishing  a  reading  room 
in  Newburyport.'  At  that  meeting  the  Merrimack  Library 
Association  was  organized.  William  H.  Wells  was  president, 
Eben  Y.  Stone,  \'ice-president,  Jacob  Haskell,  secretary,  and 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  523. 


T  7 6  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Philip  K.  Hills,  treasurer.  Rooms  were  engaged  in  the  Mer- 
chants Bank  building,  and  a  reading  room  established  for  the 
use  of  members  of  the  association.  In  order  to  encourage 
the  production  of  original  essays  and  poems  by  pupils  con- 
nected with  the  public  schools  or  by  citizens  of  Newbury  port, 
prizes  were  offered  by  the  association  in  October,  1852,  and 
February,  1853.  Donations  of  books  and  money  were  solic- 
ited, and  many  valuable  gifts  were  received,  which  were  trans- 
ferred to  the  Newburyport  Public  library  when  it  was  estab- 
lished in  1854. 

PUBLIC    LIBRARY    AND    READING    ROOM. 

In  September,  1854,  Hon.  Josiah  Little  gave  to  the  city  of 
Newburyport  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  for  the  purpose 
of  establishing  a  free  public  library.  The  gift  was  accepted, 
and  a  room  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  City  hall  was  fitted 
to  receive  the  books  purchased  by  a  committee  appointed 
by  the  mayor  and  board  of  aldermen.  In  1864,  the  Tracy 
house  on  State  street  was  purchased  and  re-modeled  for  the 
use  of  the  library.  A  reading  room,  supplied  with  newspapers 
and  magazines,  was  provided,  at  the  suggestion  of  William  C. 
Todd,  in  1870,  and  a  spacious  and  well-lighted  room  was  added 
to  the  library  building,  in  1882.  for  the  special  accommodation 
of  newspaper  readers.' 

NEWBURYPORT    LIBRARY    ASSOCIATION. 

In  January,  1855,  an  association  was  organized  for  the  pur- 
pose of  discussing  social  and  political  questions,  preparing 
essays  and  reading  works  of  historical  interest  to  be  found  in 
the  Public  library.^  Eben  V.  Stone  was  elected  president, 
Phihp  K.  Hills  and  Jeremiah  L.  Newton,  vice-presidents, 
George  W.  Hill,  secretary,  William  H.  Piper,  treasurer,   Sam- 

'  History  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I.  pages  524-528. 
*  Saturday  Evening  Union,  lanuary  13,  1855. 


NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T  A  THENM  UM,  1S78-  rSSi  1 7  7 

uel  J.  Spalding,  Joshua  Coffin,  William  C.  Todd,  D.  S.  Blake 
and  Jacob  Haskell,  executive  committee. 

Meetings  were  held  during  the  winter  months,  but  interest 
in  the  association  was  confined  to  a  few  members,  and  after  a 
brief  existence  it  was  dissolved. 

MECHANIC    LIBRARY    ASSOCIATION. 

May  6,  1857,  Henry  W.  Moulton,  John  H.  Smith,  Moses 
Sweetser,  Hiram  A.  Tenney,  ("harles  Osgood  Morse,  Edwin 
Blood,  George  J.  L.  Colby,  Joseph  H.  Bragdon,  William  H. 
Huse  and  others  were  incorporated  under  the  general  laws  of 
the  commonwealth  by  the  name  of  the  Mechanic  Library  As- 
sociation, for  the  purpose  of  promoting  useful  knowledge,  ''and 
more  especially  for  the  instruction  and  improvement  of  young 
men  engaged  in  mechanical  pursuits."' 

At  a  meeting  held  in  the  ward  room  at  City  hall,  on  the 
twenty-first  of  May  following,  the  organization  was  com- 
pleted and  by-laws  adopted.  For  two  or  three  years,  the  asso- 
ciation was  active  and  prosperous,  but  it  gradually  lost  its 
popularity  and  was  quietl)-  dissolved. 

NEWBURVPORT    ATHEN.EUM,     I  878- 1  88  I. 

When  the  Newburyport  Lyceum  was  discontinued  in  1876 
a  new  association  was  proposed  and  subsequently  organized 
for  the  purpose  of  stimulating  and  encouraging  the  prepara- 
tion of  essays,  the  delivery  of  lectures  and  the  discussion  of 
questions  of  local  historical  interest.  The  first  meeting  was 
held  in  Fraternity  hall  February  2,  1878,  when  rules  and 
regulations  were  agreed  upon,  officers  elected  and  the  name 
of  Newburyport  Athenasum  adopted.  At  the  next  meeting, 
on  the  fifteenth  of  February  following,  essays  on  "  Civil  Service 
Reform"  were  read  by  Nathan  N.  Withington .  and  Amos 
Noyes,  and  a  general  discussion  of  the  subject  followed. 

1  Acts  and  Resolves,  1857,  cliujiter  57:    Essex  Deeds,  book  550,  leaf  11  v 


178  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Subsequently,  lectures  were  delivered  by  James  Parton, 
Eben  F.  Stone,  Henry  M.  Cross,  William  H.  Swasey,  Joseph 
B.  Morss,  Eben  M.  Boynton,  Amos  A.Thompson,  William  C. 
Todd,  Rev.  Daniel  T.  Fiske,  Rev.  Edward  L.  Drown,  Dr. 
Edward  P.  Hurd,  Rev.  James  H.  Ross  of  Newburyport,  Prof. 
John  Fiske  of  Cambridge,  Hon.  Haydn  Brown  of  West  New- 
bury, Mrs.  Margaret  M.  Campbell  of  Boston  and  others. 

Meetings  were  held  in  Fraternity  hall  once  in  two  weeks 
during  the  winter  months,  and  a  small  admission  fee  was 
charged  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  association.  In  April, 
1 88 1,  these  meetings  were  discontinued,  and  were  not  re- 
sumed after  the  usual  summer  vacation. 

HISTORICAL    SOCIETY    OF    OLD    NEWBURY. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  eleven  o'clock  a.  m.,  September  6, 
1877,  on  the  lower  green  near  Parker  river,  the  Antiquarian 
and  Historical  Society  of  Old  Newbury  was  organized.  Wil- 
liam Little  was  elected  president,  David  L.  Withington,  cor- 
responding secretary,  Stephen  Ilsley,  recording  secretary  and 
Nathaniel  Dole,  treasurer.  Dinner  was  served  in  a  large  tent 
erected  on  the  green,  and  in  the  afternoon  Hon.  Caleb  Cush- 
ing  delivered  an  address  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  and 
speeches  were  made  by  Ben  :  Perley  Poore,  James  Parton, 
Eben  F.  Stone  and  others.  Subsequently,  rooms  were  se- 
cured in  the  Public  Library  building,  in  Newburyport,  and 
members  of  the  society  and  all  others  interested  were  invited 
to  attend  the  meetings  held  there  once  a  month  during  the 
winter  season. 

In  January,  1896,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  secure  an 
act  of  incorporation,  and  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  June  follow- 
ing William  Little,  Philip  H.  Lunt,  Nathan  N.  Withington, 
Susan  I.  Adams,  Lawrence  B.  Cushing,  Robert  N.  Toppan, 
Samuel  C.  Beane,  John  J.  Currier  and  others  were  incorpo- 
rated under  the  general  laws  by  the  name  of  the  Historical 
Society  of  Old  Newbury,  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  house- 


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179 


hold  utensils,  books,  manuscripts  and  other  objects  of  interest 
connected  with  the  early  history  of  the  towns  of  Newbury, 
Newburyport  and  West  Newbury.  William  Little  was  elect- 
ed president,  Emily  A.  Getchell,  secretary,  and  Philip  H.  Lunt, 
treasurer. 

The  societ}'  has  received  since  its  organization  many  gifts 
of  books,  manuscripts,  portraits  and  engravings,  and  recent- 
ly, from  Mrs.  Moses  H.  Fowler,  a  large  three-story  framed 
dwelling  house,  now  standing  on  the  corner  of  High  and 
Winter  streets,  in  Newburyport.  Owing  to  the  lack  of  avail- 
able funds,  the  purchase  of  rare  books  and  valuable  works  of 
art  has  been  necessarily  limited,  but  with  a  larger  income  and 
better  accommodations  in  a  fire-proof  building,  it  would  be 
possible  to  make  and  preserve  for  future  generations  an  inter- 
esting collection  of  ancient  documents,  furniture  and  clothing 
relating  to,  or  illustrating,  the  manners  and  customs  of  the 
early  settlers  of  old  Newbury. 

SOUTH    END    READING    ROOM    ASSOCIATION. 

January  25,  1900,  a  few  ladies,  interested  in  the  education 
of  children  and  the  diffusion  of  useful  knowledge,  leased  a 
building  on  Union  street,  in  Ward  One,  and  with  the  assist- 
ance of  friends  supplietl  it  with  books  and  magazines,  pro- 
vided an  attendant  and  invited  all  persons  living  in  that 
neighborhood  to  use  it  as  a  reading  room,  free  of  expense. 

In  February,  1904,  an  association  was  formed,  and  incorpo- 
rated on  the  third  of  March  following,  under  chapter  one 
hundred  and  fifteen  of  the  Public  Statutes,  by  the  name  of 
the  South  End  Reading  Room  Association,  for  the  purpose  of 
providing  and  maintaining  a  free  public  library  and  reading 
room  for  the  residents  of  Ward  One  in  Newburyport.  The 
officers  and  members  of  the  association  named  in  the  certifi- 
cate of  incorporatian  are  as  follows  : — 

Eben  C.  Knight,  president:  P^nima  M.  Lander,  secretary:  Anna  L. 
Coffin,  trea.surer  :  Cliarles  H.  Jackman,    Isaac  P.  Noyes,   Russell  S.  Tib- 


j  80  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

betts,  Henry  G.  Alley,  Edward  Osgood,  Edith  M.  McBurnie,  John  W. 
Sargent,  William  W.  Hicks,  George  F.  Woodman,  George  H.  Welch, 
Isaac  W.  Lane  and  Frank  S.  Osgood. 

In  May,  1905,  the  dwelling  house  No.  75  Purchase  street, 
corner  of  Marlborough  street,  formerly  owned  and  occupied 
by  William  T.  Humphries,  was  purchased  by  friends  of  the 
association,  re-modeled  and  dedicated  on  the  twentieth  of  July 
following.  It  has  several  well-furnished  and  convenient  read- 
ing rooms  and  a  small  library  of  useful  and  entertaining 
books  for  children. 

The  association  is  dependent  upon  gifts  and  bequests  of 
friends  for  its  maintenance  and  support,  the  appropriation 
made  for  several  years  in  succession  by  the  city  council  having 
been  declared  illegal. 

The  reading  rooms  are  open  every  evening,  Sundays  and 
holidays  excepted,  from  seven  to  nine  o'clock  p.  m.  The 
library  is  open  every  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Saturday,  from 
half-past  six  to  eight  o'clock  p.  m. 

MUSICAL    SOCIETIES. 

In  1 7 14,  Rev.  John  Tufts,  pastor  of  the  Second  church  in 
Newbury,  now  the  First  in  West  Newbury,  published  "  a  very 
plain  and  easy  introduction  to  the  art  of  singing  psalm  tunes." 
This  was  probably  the  first  book  published  in  America  con- 
taining tunes  to  be  sung  by  note.' 

When  Newbviryport  was  incorporated,  in  1764,  the  study 
of  vocal  and  instrumental  music  was  stimulated  and  encour- 
aged by  Daniel  Bayley,  who  compiled,  published  and  sold 
singing  books  at  his  house  near  St.  Paul's  church.  For 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years  his  books  met  with  a  ready  sale, 
and  helped  to  develop  the  musical  taste  and  ability  of  inex- 
perienced singers.^ 

'  History  of  Newbury  (Coffin),  pages  185,  186;  History  of  Newburyport  (Cur- 
rier), volume  I,  page  473. 

'^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  474-480, 


MUSICAL  SOCIETIES  l8l 

Singing  classes  and  musical  societies  were  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  imparting  instruction,  training  uncultivated  voices 
and  raising  the  standard  of  church  choirs.  Under  the  direc- 
tion of  skillful  teachers,  psalm  tunes  and  anthems  sung  in  the 
meeting-house  on  Sundays  were  made  specially  attractive  and 
acceptable. 

At  later  dates,  similar  associations  were  formed  to  study 
and  interpret  the  works  of  eminent  European  musical  com- 
posers, but  for  many  reasons  they  failed  to  receive  cordial 
support  and  after  a  brief  existence  were  dissolved. 

In  1848,  two  societies,  the  Musical  Institute  and  the  Sacred 
Music  Society,  were  organized  by  Moses  D.  Randall  and 
James  W.  (Cheney.  Warren  Currier  was  chosen  secretary  of 
the  Institute.  Concerts  of  sacred  music  were  given  in  the 
meeting-house  of  the  First  Rehgious  society,  on  Pleasant  street, 
Thursday  evening,  January  eleventh,  and  Thursday  evening, 
April  12,  1849,  and  in  the  First  Presbyterian  meeting-house, 
on  Federal  street,  November  twenty-first,    and    December   3, 

1850.  In  the  month  of  March  following,  the  two  musical 
societies  gave  a  concert  in  Town,  now  City  hall,  which 
was  repeated  on   Thursday    (Fast    day)    evening,    April    10, 

1851. 

The  Essex  North  Musical  convention,  under  the  direction 
of  Prof,  Lowell  Mason  and  George  J.  Webb  of  the  Boston 
Academy  of  Music  met  at  City  hall,   Newburyport,  June    18, 

185 1.  Rev.  Luther  P".  Dimmick  delivered  the  opening  ad- 
dress. The  exercises  concluded  on  the  evening  of  the  next 
day  with  a  concert  of  sacred  music  in  the  meeting-house  of  the 
First  Religious  society,  on  Pleasant  street. 

The  Musical  Institute,  assisted  by  the  Beethoven  Club,  or- 
ganized as  an  orchestra,  gave  a  free  public  rehearsal  of  vocal 
and  instrumental  music  in  City  hall,  February  twelfth,  and  a 
sacred  concert,  in  the  same  place,  Sunday  evening,  December 
5,  1852. 

"  A  Grand  Musical  Festival,"'  under  the  management  of 
Charles  P.  Morrison  of  Newburyport  and  S.  A.  Ellis  of  Bos- 


1 8  2  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  T 

ton,  was  held  in  City  hall,  beginning  October  eighth,  and 
ending  October  1 1,  1867.  Concerts  of  vocal  and  instrument- 
al music  were  given  every  afternoon  and  evening,  at  which 
Rossini's  Stabat  Mater  and  selections  from  Haydn's  Seasons 
and  other  eminent  composers  were  sung. 

Another  festival,  with  a  chorus  of  two  hundred  voices,  as- 
sisted by  eminent  soloists  and  the  Mendelssohn  Quintette 
club  of  Boston,  was  held  under  the  direction  of  Charles  P. 
Morrison,  beginning  October  fourteenth,  and  ending  October 
16,  1868,  at  which  selections  from  the  oratorios  "Elijah" 
and  "  Creation  "  were  sung.' 

May  28,  1869,  the  Choral  society,  Charles  P.  Morrison, 
conductor,  organized  for  the  purpose  of  taking  part  in  the 
"Grand  National  Peace  Jubilee"  in  Boston,^  gave  a  concert 
of  vocal  and  instrumental  music  in  City  hall,  Newburyport, 
and  on  the  twenty-seventh,  twenty-eighth  and  twenty-ninth 
days  of  October  following  the  third  musical  festival  was  held 
in  the  same  place,  at  which  selections  from  the  "  Messiah," 
"Creation,"  "St.  Paul"  and  "Elijah"  were  sung  by  a 
chorus  of  two  hundred  voices,  assisted  by  the  Germania  or- 
chestra of  Boston.  The  festival  closed  with  a  concert  of 
popular  and  patriotic  songs,  including  the  "  Star  Spangled 
Banner,"   "  Anvil  Chorus,"   Keller's  "  American  Hymn,"  etc. 

Mr.  Morrison  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  1870,  but 
previous  to  the  second  "  Peace  Jubilee  and  International  Fes- 
tival "  in  Boston,  in  June,  1872,  he  came  to  Newburyport 
every  week,  from  the  middle  of  March  to  the  middle  of  June,  to 
conduct  the  rehearsals  of  the  Choral  society.  A  rival  society, 
under  the  direction  of  Moses  D.  Randall,  was  organized,  and 
both  societies  took  part  in  the  jubilee  concerts.  Subsequent- 
ly, both  these  societies  were  united  to  form  the  Newburyport 

1  A  book  of  programmes  containing  words  of  the  oratorios  sung  at  the  musical 
festival  at  City  hall,  October  14,  15  and  16,  ]  86S,  was  printed  by  William  H . 
Huse  &  Co.,  and  advertised  for  sale  by  George  W.  Clark. 

-  The  first  Peace  Jubilee  was  held  in  Boston,  June  15-19,  1869.  and  the  second 
in  June,  1872, 


MUSICAL  SOCIETIES  183 

Oratorio  class,  which  held  its  first  rehearsal  October  8,  1872, 
in  the  North  Church  vestry,  under  the  direction  of  Carl  Zer- 
rahn  of  Boston.  January  2,  1873,  assisted  by  Myron  W. 
Whitney,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Smith  and  other  soloists,  the  class  sang 
the  Messiah  in  City  hall.  On  the  thirtieth  of  May  following, 
they  sang  Keller's  "  American  Hymn,"  with  selections  from 
the  "Creation,"  and  January  30,  1874,  assisted  by  the  Ger- 
mania  band,  they  gave  a  concert  of  vocal  and  instrumental 
music  before  the  Newburyport  Lyceum  Association. 

Soon  after  the  last-named  date  the  class  was  dissolved. 
October  24,  1876,  it  was  re-organized.  Elisha  P.  Dodge  was 
chosen  president,  Frank  Alley,  secretary,  and  George  H. 
Pearson,  conductor.  Two  public  rehearsals,  the  first  one 
January  30,  1877,  the  second  on  the  twelfth  of  April  follow- 
ing, were  given  in  City  hall. 

In  January,  1878,  a  ri\-al  association  was  organized  under 
the  direction  of  Prof.  L.  A.  Torrens  of  Boston.  This  associ- 
ation gave  three  concerts  in  City  hall,  the  first  one  April  1 1, 

1878,  the  second,  January  14,  1879,  and   the  third,   April   3, 

1879,  Soon  after  the  last-named  date  the  association  was 
dissolved. 

On  the  twenty-first  of  March,  1879,  the  Newburyport  Ora- 
torio class,  George  H.  Pearson,  conductor,  gave  a  concert  of 
vocal  and  instrumental  music  at  City  hall,  and  on  the  twenty- 
first  of  April  following  sang,  in  the  same  place,  selections 
from  the  oratorio,  "Judas  Maccabeas,"  and  the  cantata  of 
"  St.  Cecelia's  Day."      On  the  evening  of  Fast   day,   April   8, 

1880,  the  "  Redemption  Hymn,"  by  J.  C.  D.  Parker,  was 
sung,  with  the  assistance  of  eminent  soloists  from  Boston. 
A  few  months  later,  meetings  of  the  class  for  instruction 
and  practice  were  discontinued,  and  were  not  resumed. 

November  30,  1896,  the  Newburyport  Choral  Union  was 
organized,  rules  and  regulations  adopted,  and  the  following- 
named  officers  elected  : — 


1 84  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Vice-presidents. 


Rev.  Louis  A.  Pope,       President. 

Robert  E.  Burke,        \ 

Richard  G.  Adams,    \ 

John  W.  Winder,  Secretary. 

Charles  A.  Bliss,  Treasurer. 

Emil  Mollenhauer,  Conductor. 

March  4,  1897,  assisted  by  eminent  soloists  and  the  Ger- 
mania  orchestra  from  Boston,  the  Choral  union  sang  in  City 
hall  the  cantata  "Gallia,"  by  Gounod,  and  on  the  fifteenth  of 
April  following  gave  the  "  Messiah  "  in  the  same  hall  to  a 
large  and  appreciative  audience.  Since  the  last-named  date, 
the  members  of  the  union  have  given  three  concerts  annually, 
singing  the  oratorios  "  Arminius,"  "  Elijah,"  "  Creation," 
"St.  Paul,"  "Hiawatha,"  "Golden  Legend,"  "Faust," 
"  Aida,"  "  Carmen,"  "  Flying  Dutchman  "  and  other  works 
of  eminent  composers. 

Under  the  direction  of  Emil  Mollenhauer,  the  Choral  union 
is  still  active  and  prosperous.  The  twelfth  season  closed 
April  20,  1908.  After  the  usual  summer  vacation  rehearsals 
were  resumed,  and  the  oratorio  "  Elijah  "  was  sung  December 
7,  1908.  Other  oratorios,  not  yet  announced,  will  be  given  in 
February  and  April,  1909. 

THE    MALL    IMPROVEMENT    .\SSOCL\TION. 

In  1887,  an  association  was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  re-grad- 
ing and  improving  Bartlet  mall  and  the  public  grounds  in  the 
vicinity  of  Frog  pond.  The  funds  needed  to  make  the  proposed 
changes  were  raised  by  private  subscription,  and  September  4, 
1888,  the  city  council  adopted  a  joint  resolution,  authorizing 
the  association  to  make  the  improvements  in  accordance  with 
plans  submitted  by    Charles    Eliot,    landscape    gardener,    of 

'  In  1904,  Herbert  E.  Gillett  was  elected  president  in  place  of  Rev.  Louis  A. 
Pope,  deceased.  The  other  officers  named  above  have  been  annuallv  re-elected 
until  the  present  time. 


CITY  IMPROVEMENT  SOCIETY  185 

Cambridge,    Mass.      In  the    summer    of    1889  the  work  was 
completed,  and  the  association  dissolved.' 

CITY    IMPROVEMENT    SOCIETY. 

At  a  meeting-  held  Saturday  evening,  October  2,  1890,  in 
Fraternity  hall,  Pleasant  street,  after  a  brief  address  by  James 
Parton,  the  City  Improvement  society  was  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  preserving  and  improving  the  natural  beauties  of 
the  city  of  Newburyport.  Rules  and  regulations  were  adopt- 
ed, officers  elected  and  an  executive  committee,  consisting  of 
sixteen  members,  appointed  to  superintend  and  direct  the 
work  ordered  or  authorized  by  the  society. 

Since  that  date  the  officers  and  the  members  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  have  been  elected  annually,  in  October  or 
November,  and  have  published,  in  pamphlet  form,  several 
essays  on  subjects  of  local  interest,  and  printed,  for  free  dis- 
tribution, a  brief  description  of  the  historic  houses  and  nota- 
ble places  in  "  Ould  Newbury."  They  have  also  assisted, 
with  the  co-operation  of  the  society,  in  providing  pictures  and 
statuary  for  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  contributed  to  the 
cost  of  the  monument  erected  on  Atkinson  common  to  the 
soldiers  and  sailors  who  served  in  the  Civil  war  and  placed 
bronze  tablets  at  the  lower  and  upper  greens  in  Newbury  and 
at  the  entrance  to  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground  in  Newbury- 
port. 

The  society  is  now  engaged  in  an  effort  to  improve  the 
appearance  of  the  neglected  graveyards  within  the  limits  of 
the  city,  by  removing  unsightly  weeds  and  wild  cherry  bushes, 
repairing  gravestones,  laying  out  paths  for  the  convenience  of 
visitors,  and  providing  for  the  regular  and  frequent  cutting  of 
the  grass  during  the  summer  months.  The  funds  needed  for 
this  and  other  work  undertaken  by  the  society  has  been 
raised  by  an  annual  tax    on    members,    the    contributions  of 

'  See  annual  reports  to  the  city  council  for  the  year  ending  December  21,  1889, 
pages  269-283. 


1 86  ^  ,     HIST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

friends,  and  the  proceeds  of  various  public  entertainments  ; 
the  last  one  having  been  held  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Mayer  S.  Bernheimer,  Saturday  evening,  June  22,  1907, 
when  Edmond  Rostrand's  play,  "  The  Romancers,"  was 
given  to  a  large  and  appreciative  audience,  by  amateur  actors, 
on  a  stage  surrounded  by  lofty  trees  and  clambering  vines,  in 
a  secluded  nook  that  forms  a  part  of  the  garden  connected 
with  the  house  recently  owned  and  occupied  by  the  late  Solo- 
mon Bachman  of  New  York  city. 

BELLEVILLE    IMPROVEMENT    SOCIETY. 

September  4,  1893,  a  few  individuals  residing  near  the 
junction  of  Storey  avenue,  Moseley  avenue,  and  the  "  Ferry 
road  "  formed  an  association,  by  the  name  of  the  Belleville 
Improvement  Society,  for  the  purpose  of  laying  out  walks, 
planting  trees  and  shrubs  and  otherwise  improving"  Atkinson 
common.  Meetings  were  held  once  a  month  during  the  win- 
ter season,  and  early  in  the  month  of  May  following  the  work 
of  deepening  the  soil  and  grading  the  walks  and  drives  was 
begun,  and  has  been  continued  from  year  to  year  to  the  pres- 
ent time,  with  the  assistance  of  a  small  annual  appropriation 
from  the  city  council  and  the  contributions  of  a  few  interested 
friends. 


Biographical  Sketches 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

MERCHANTS,    SEA    CAPTAINS    AND    SHIP    OWNERS. 

Although  Robert  Hooper  was  born  in  Marblehead,  and 
lived  in  that  town  until  his  death,  in  1790,  several  of  his 
children  were  identified  prominently  with  the  early  history  of 
Newburyport.  His  son  Stephen  married  Sarah  Woodbridge, 
another  son,  Joseph,  married  Mary  Harris,  a  daughter  Ruth 
married  Tristram  Dalton,  another  daughter,  Alice,  married 
Joseph  Cutler,  and  a  younger  daughter,  Rcbekah,  married 
Lewis  Jenkins.  These  sons  and  daughters  of  Robert  Hooper 
subsequently  resided  in  Newburyport,  and  helped  to  stimulate 
and  develop  its  social  and  political  life. 

Robert  Hooper,  or  "  King  Hooper,"'  ashe  was  called,  was  the  wealthi- 
est merchant  in  Marblehead,  and  one  of  the  wealthiest  in  New  England 
previous  to  the  Revolution.  His  ships  sailed  to  every  port  of  Europe 
and  the  West  Indies,  and  his  name  and  fame  as  a  merchant  extended  to 
all  the  mercantile  centres  of  the  world.  He  lived  in  princely  style  for 
those  days,  and  some  of  the  highest  dignitaries  of  the  land  were  his 
frequent  guests. 

His  uniform  courtesy  and  kindness  and  his  benevolence  to  the  poor 
endeared  him  to  all,  especially  the  people  of  Marblehead,  by  whom  he 
was  greatly  beloved.  The  soubriquet  "  King,'"  it  is  said,  was  given  to 
him  by  the  fishermen,  not  on  account  of  his  wealth,  as  is  generally  sup- 
posed, but  because  of  his  honor  and  integrity  in  dealing  with  them. 
They  were  ignorant  men,  and  contrary  to  the  practice  of  some  of  the 
merchants  and  shore  men,  King  Hooper  was  never  known  to  cheat  them 
or  to  take  advantage  of  their  ignorance. 

During  the  Revolution  Mr.  Hooper  was  a  loyalist,  and  his  name  was 
reported  to  the  town  as  one  of  those  "  inimical  to  the  cause  of  their 
country.'"' 

'  History  of  Marblehead  (^.Samuel  Roads,  jr.),  pages  350 and  351. 
189 


190 


HIS  TO K  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


He  had  a  fine  large  house  in  Marblehead,  where  he  resided/ 
and  another  one,  equally  large  and  imposing,  where  his  son 
Joseph  lived  for  nearly  ten  years.-  In  1753,  he  bought 
twenty-eight  acres  of  land  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  where  he  built 
an  elegant  three-story  house,  which  is  now  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  Francis  Peabody,  esq. 

When  Gen.  Thomas  Gage,  governor  of  the  province  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,  came  to  Salem  to  attend  the  General 
Court  that  had  been  adjourned  to  meet  in  that  town  June  7, 
1774,  he  was  received  with  great  demonstrations  of  loyalty. 
A  brilliant  ball  was  given  in  his  honor  at  the  Assembly  rooms. 
The  Essex  Gazette,  describing  the  occasion,  says  :  "  His 
Excellency  the  Governor  resides  at  Danvers,  about  four  miles 
out  of  town,  at  the  elegant  country  seat  of  the  Honourable 
Robert  Hooper,  Esq." 

Two  companies  of  His  Majesty's  Sixty-fourth  regiment  of 
infantry  encamped  on  a  large  field  in  front  of  the  house  for 
the  protection  of  the  governor.  The  representatives  to  the 
General  Court  assembled  at  the  time  and  place  appointed  and 
elected  delegates  to  the  Continental  congress  to  be  held  in 
Philadelphia  in  the  month  of  September  following.  Alarmed 
at  these  revolutionary  proceedings,  the  governor  decided  to 
dissolve  the  General  Court.  On  the  seventeenth  of  June, 
his  secretary,  when  about  to  enter  the  upper  hall,  found  the 
door  locked  against  him,  and  was  obliged  to  read  the  procla- 
mation on  the  stairs  leading  to  the  representative  chamber. 

On  the  twenty-seventh  of  August,  the  governor,  with  a 
small  body-guard,  returned  to  Boston,  and  a  few  days  later 
two  companies  of  infantry,  with  a  band  playing  "  Roast  Beef 
and  Plum  Pudding,"  marched  through  the  streets  of  Danvers 
on  their  way  to  Boston  Neck,  where  British  troops  were  at 
work  throwing  up  entrenchments. 

1  This  house  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  the  Young  Men"s  Christian  Associa- 
tion of  Marblehead. 

"^  Joseph  Hooper  was  a  loyaHst.  In  1775,  he  went  to  England,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death,   in  181 2. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OJINERS      191 

Robert  Hooper,  owner  of  the  mansion  house  in  Danvers, 
where  General  Gage,  governor  of  the  province  of  Massachu- 
setts Bay,  resided  for  a  few  weeks,  was  the  son  of  Greenfield 
and  Alice  Hooper.  He  was  born  June  26,  1709  ;  and  married, 
September  10,  1735,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Joseph  (Barnard) 
Swett  of  Marblehead.  The  names  of  the  children  of  Robert 
and  Ruth  (Swett)  Hooper,  and  the  dates  of  their  births,  are  as 
follows  : — 

Greenfield,  born  October  14,  1736.' 


Ruth, 

'      August  5,  1739. 

Stephen,        ' 

'     July  3.  1741- 

Joseph,          ' 

'      May  29,  1743. 

Alice,             ' 

'      September  12,  1745 

Robert, 

'      February  9,  1746-7. 

Samuel,         ' 

'      January  25,  1748-9. 

Swett, 

■      May  5,  1750. 

Hannah,       ' 

'      June  8,  I  751. 

Rebeckah,    " 

August  15,  1755. 

Greenfield,  " 

May  10,  1762. 

The  first  son,  Greenfield,  probably  died  unmarried.  Ruth, 
born  in  1739,  married  Tristram  Dalton  of  Newburyport  Octo- 
ber 24,  1758.  Stephen,  born  in  1741,  graduated  at  Harvard 
college  in  1761,  and  married  Saiah  Woodbridge  of  Newbury- 
port October  10,  1764.  Two  years  later,  he  owned  and  oc- 
cupied a  dwelling  house  on  the  southerly  side  of  Frog  pond.- 

Joseph,  born  in  1743,  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1763, 
and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Harris  of  Newbury- 
port, in  1766.^ 

Alice,  born  in  1745,  married  Jacob  Fowle  November  7, 
1765,  and  Joseph  Cutler  in  1782.  Her  portrait,  painted  by 
Copley,  is  now  in  the  Boston  Athenaeum. 

Robert,  born  in  1746,  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1765. 
He    married  Anna  Cowell,    in    Marblehead,    May  23,  1769, 

1  Died  November  15,  1759. 

^  "  Ould  Newbur)' "  :      Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  610  and  612. 
^  Joseph  Hooper's  intention  of  marriage  was  filed  with  the  town   clerk  of  Mar- 
blehead September  13,   1766. 


192 


HI  ST  OK  y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  T 


and  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  address  to  Thomas  Hutch- 
inson, governor  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  just 
previous  to  the  Revolutionary  war.'      He  died  in  1784. 

Samuel,  born  in  1748-9,  died  when  only  fourteen  or  fifteen 
months  old.  Swett,  born  in  1756,  was  a  loyalist.  He 
signed  the  address  to  Governor  Hutchinson  in  1774;  and 
married,  in  Boston,  October  24,  1779,  Mary  McNeil.  He  died 
probably  in  October,   1781. 

Hannah,  born  in  1751,  probably  married  Samuel  White 
October  27,  1768,  or  possibly  John  Miller  July  30,  1772. 

Rebeckah,  born  in  1755,  married  Lewis  Jenkins  of  New- 
buryport  May  24,  1780. 

Greenfield,  born  in  1762,  probably  married  Abigail  But- 
man,  in  Danvers,  April  4,  1786. 

Robert,  or  "  King,"  Hooper,  died  in  Marblehead  May  20, 
1790.  Rev.  William  Bentley,  a  Congregational  minister  in 
Salem,  wrote  as  follows  concerning  the  sad  event : — 

On  the  same  evening  [May  23,  1790],  was  buried  at  Marblehead  Rob- 
ert Hooper  Esqr  ajt  80.  He  had  long  been  the  most  eminent  merchant 
in  the  place,  but  by  the  events  of  the  war  became  a  bankrupt.  He  was 
entrusted  by  his  creditors  with  the  improvement  of  his  real  estate  during 
his  natural  life,  &  was  called  King  Hooper  by  the  people.  The  highest 
affection  was  shown  to  him  at  his  death  &  his  memory  honored  by  his 
numerous  former  dependents.  The  Vessels  were  all  dressed  in  mourn- 
ing ;  the  Procession  exceeded  anything  before  known  in  honor  of  a  mer- 
chant in  that  place. - 

Administration  of  his  estate  was  granted  September  6, 
1790,  and  an  inventory  of  his  property  was  returned  to  the 
probate  court  July  2,  1791.-^     On  the  fourth  of  July,  commis- 

'  "  The  addresses  of  Mr.  I  lutchinson,  and  the  protestors  against  our  public  meas- 
ures, lead  a  devil  of  a  life.  In  the  country  the  people  will  not  grind  their  corn, 
and  in  the  town  they  refuse  to  purchase  from,  and  sell  to  them"  (Sabine's  Loy- 
alists, page  136). 

-  Diary  of   Rev.  William  Hentley,  volume  I,  l>age  169. 

•'  Essex  I'robate  Records,  book  361,  page  32S. 


MERCI/Ayj'S,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWXERS       193 


sioners  were  appointed  to  examine  claims  against  the  estate, 
which  was  declared  insolvent,  No\-ember  7,  1799.' 

The  half-tone  print  on 
this  page  is  reproduced 
from  a  portrait  of  '4Cing" 
Hooper,  painted  by 
Copley,  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  Robert  C. 
Hooper,  Beacon  street, 
Boston. 

Stephen,  son  of  Rob- 
ert Hooper,  graduated 
at  Harvard  college  in 
1 76 1,  and  came  to  New- 
bury soon  after  that  date. 
He  married  Sarah  Wood- 
bridge  October  10,  1764. 
and  in  1766  owned  and 
occupied  a  dwelling 
house  on  the  southerly 
side  of  Frog  pond,  in 
Newburyport.-  Sarah 
(Woodbridge)  Hooper 
died  June  26,  1779,  and  Stephen  Hooper  married,  in  1781, 
Alice  Roberts  of  Bradford,  Mass.  Five  years  later,  he 
purchased  a  mill  at  the  mouth  of  Artichoke  river,  and 
erected  a  dwelling  house  there,  removing,  early  in  the  year 
1800,  to  a  farm  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  the  Bradford 
road,  near  the  summit  of  Pipe-Stave  hill,  now  within  the 
Hmits  of  the  town  of  West  Newbury.  He  died  January  16, 
1802.  His  widow,  Alice  (Roberts)  I  loopcr,  died  May  8,  18 12, 
aged  sixty -five. 


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'  Essex  I'roliatf  Kfcnrds,  lionk  367.  jiatjes  1 71 -173. 

-  ''Ould  Newl)ury'':    Historical  ami  l-liographical  Sketches,  page  612;     Ilistory 
of   Newburyport  ( Currier ),  volume  I,  pages  120  and  121. 


194 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Thomas  Woodbridge  Hooper,  oldest  son  of  Stephen  Hooper 
by  his  first  marriage,  was  born  December  19,  1767,  and  died 
in  infancy.  His  second  son,  Thomas  Woodbridge  Hooper, 
was  born  January  25,  1771,  and  married,  September  17, 
1792,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Hon.  Theophilus  Bradbury  of 
Newbury  port.' 

Stephen  Hooper,  jr.,  son  of  Stephen  Hooper,  sr.,  by  his 
second  marriage,  was  born  April  7,  1785,  and  married,  March 
23,  1823,  Susan  Coffin  Marquand  of  Newburyport.' 

Joseph  Hooper,  son  of  Robert  and  Ruth  (Swett)  Hooper, 
was  married  by  Rev.  Edward  Bass,  October  30,  1766,  to 
Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Harris  of  Newburyport.  The 
children  by  this  marriage  w^ere  born  as  follows  : — 

Elizabeth,    born  in  Marblehead  Sept.  3,  1767  ;   died  Sept.  17,  1767. 
Benjamin  Harris,  born  in  Marblehead  Jan.  22,  1769  ;  died  in  infancy. 
Elizabeth  Harris,  born  in  Marblehead  Jan.  31,  1772  ;  died  Nov.  2,  1795  ; 
buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  Newburyport. 
Joseph,  born  in  Newburj^i^ort  in  1775.3 

Joseph  Hooper,  father  of  the  above-named  children,  was  a 
loyalist.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  war  he  went 
to  England,  where  he  died  in  1812.  His  wife,  Mary  (Harris) 
Hooper,  came  to  Newburyport,  where  she  died  October  3, 
1796.  Her  son  Joseph  was  born  in  a  house  then  standing  on 
State  street,  belonging  to  the  estate  of  her  father,  Benjamin 
Harris,  deceased.  This  house  was  subsequently  removed  to 
Marlborough  street ;  and  I^larris  street,  extending  from  State 
to  Green  street,  was  laid  out  through  land  in  the  possession 
of  Mary  (Harris)  Hooper  and  others  in  1795. 

The  committee  of  correspondence,  inspection  and  safety  of 
Marblehead  filed  a  certificate  in  the  probate  court,  dated  May 

'  Harriet  (Bradbury)  Hooper  died  November  28,   1798. 

*  See  Chapter  XXHI,  Doctors  and  Lawyers. 

3  Joseph  Hooper  was  baptized  June  18,  1775,   by  Rev.  Edward  Bass. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA  CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       195 

8,  1 78 1,  stating  that  Joseph  Hooper  had  absented  himself 
from  the  town,  and  was  supposed  to  be  in  Engiand.  Joseph 
Lee  of  Marblehead,  with  Nathaniel  Tracy  and  John  Tracy  of 
Newburyport,  as  sureties,  was  appointed  agent  to  take  charge 
of  the  estate,  dispose  of  the  property,  and  render  an  account 
of  the  same  to  the  court  as  often  as  once  in  twelve  months, 
unless  otherwise  ordered.' 

Alice  Hooper,  born  in  Marblehead  September  12,  1745, 
married  Jacob  Fowle  November  7,  1765.  Children  by  this 
marriage  were  baptized  in  Marblehead  at  dates  named  below.' 

Robert,  baptized  August  31,  1766.3 

Jacob,  "  August  14,  1768. 

Susannah,  "  March      3,  1771. 

James  Roland,  "  August     8,  1772.4 

Greenfield  Hooper,        "  September 4,  1774. 

Mr.  Fowle  remo\'ed  with  his  wife  and  children  to  London- 
derry, N.  H.,  in  1775,  and  afterward  to  Newburyport,  where 
he  died  January  14,  1778,  aged  thirty-six.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  Paul's  churchyard.  In  his  will,  dated  at  Londonderry, 
May  19,  1777,  and  proved  at  the  probate  court  held  in 
Salem,  Mass.,  April  6,  1778,  he  gave  one-third  of  his  estate 
to  his  wife  Alice,  and  the  rest  and  residue  to  his  children, 
Robert,  Jacob,  Susannah  and  Stephen  Hooper  Fowle. 

\x\  1782,  Mrs.  Alice  (Hooper)  Fowle  married  Joseph  Cutler 
of  Newburyport.  He  bought  of  John  Babson  of  Gloucester, 
March  9,  i  786,  a  brick  dwelling  house,  with  the  land  under 
and  adjoining  the  same,  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of  Green 

'  Essex  I'robate  Records,  liook  354,  page  42S. 

-  First  Congregational  Church  records,  Marblehead,  Mass. 

3  Robert  Fowle  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  17S6,  and  was  ordained  to  the 
priesthood  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in  1791.  He 
died  at  Holderness,  N.  H.,  in  1847. 

■•  James  Roland  Fowle  was  not  living,  proliably.  when  his  father,  Jacob  Fowle, 
died,  and  the  name  Greenfield  Hooper,  in  the  bajitismal  record,  isprobal)ly  incorrect, 
and  should  read  .Stephen  Hooper  Fowle. 


196  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

street  and  Union,  now  Washington,  street,  Newburyport,  and 
lived  there  for  many  years.'  Joseph  and  Alice  (Hooper) 
Cutler  had  one  son  and  two  daughters,  born  in  Newburyport, 
as  follows : — 

Joseph,  born  January  4,  1783  :  died  in  Boston  May  9,  1848. 
Sarah,       ''     July  18,  1784;  died  in  Newburyport  Sept.  26,  1863. 
Susan,      •'     in     1 786 ;    married     Rev.   Robert  Fowle  of  New 

Holderness,  N.  H. 

Joseph  Cutler  died  November  17,  1804,  aged  fifty-six. 
His  widow  died  September  15,  1826,  aged  eighty-one.  Both 
were  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  Newburyport. 

Lewis  Jenkins  of  Newburyport  married  Rebeckah  Hooper 
of  Marblehead  May  24,  1780.  The  following-named  children 
of  Lewis  and  Rebeckah  (Hooper)  Jenkms  were  born  in 
Newburyport : — 

Rebecca  Hooper,  August  13,  1782. 
Joseph  Marion,       September  20,  i  783. 
Robert  Dalton,       November  ig,  1785. 

Mrs.  Rebeckah  (Hooper)  Jenkins  died  December  18,  1790.- 
Mr.  Jenkins  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Ruth  Hooper  July 
3,  1791.3 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  145,  leaf  87. 

The  land  on  which  this  brick  dwelling  house  stands  was  sold,  April  2,  1782,  by 
Nathaniel  Tracy  to  Jonathan  Mulliken,  watchmaker,  "  with  the  building  materials 
and  rubbish  thereon"  (Essex  Deeds,  book  141,  leaf  6).  Mr.  Mulliken  died  June 
19,  17S2,  and  the  executors  of  his  will  sold  the  land,  "with  the  buildings,  stone 
and  rubbish  thereon,"  to  John  Babson  of  Newburyport  August  12,  1782  (Essex 
Deeds,  book  141,   leaf  48). 

'■*  "  Died  on  Saturday  last  Mrs.  Rebekah  Jenkins,  aged  35,  the  amiable  consort 
of  Mr.  Lewis  Jenkins,  and  youngest  daughter  of  the  late  honorable  Robert  Hoop- 
er, Esq.,  of  Marblehead.  Her  funeral  will  be  this  afternoon,  precisely  at  3  o'clock, 
which  her  Friends  and  acquaintances  are  desired  to  attend"  (Essex  Gazette, 
Salem,  Mass.,  December  22,  1790). 

^  "  Married  last  Sunday  evening  [July  3,  1791],  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bass,  Mr. 
Lewis  Jenkins  of  this  town,  merchant,  to  Miss  Ruth  Hooper,  grand-daughter  to 
the  Hon.  Robert  Hooper,  Esq.,  of  Marblehead,  merchant,  deceased"  (Essex 
Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  July  6,  1791  (American  Anticjuarian  Society, 
Worcester,  Mass.). 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS      197 

Lewis  and  Ruth  (Hooi^er)  Jenkins  had  a  daut;hter,  Mary 
Dalton,  born  August  25,  1795,  and  perhaps  other  children 
whose  names  have  not  been  ascertained.  Mr.  Jenkins  died 
May  2,  1798,  when  forty-one  years  of  age,  and  was  buried  in 
St.  Paul's  church-yard.  His  widow,  Ruth  Jenkins,  married, 
June  22,  1809,  George  De  Klois  of  Boston. 

Joseph  Hooper,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Harris)  Hooper, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  in  1775.  At  that  date,  his  father, 
a  loyalist,  was  in  England,  and  his  mother  was  living  in  a 
house  on  State  street,  formerly  owned  and  occupied  by  Ben- 
jamin Harris,  deceased,'  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Rachel  (Waters)  Whittemore,  November  11,  1802.' 
Children  by  this  marriage  were  born  in  Newburyport  at  the 
following-named  dates  : — ^ 

Joseph,  born  September  26,  1803. 

Mary  Harris,  "  December    16,  1804. 

Amelia  Whittemore,     "  May  24,  1  806. 

Benjamin  Harris,  "  July   11,  1S07. 

John  Whittemore,  "  January  30,  1809. 

Elizabeth   Harris,  "  May  28,  18 10. 

William  Woart,  "  June  3,  1812. 

Lucy,  "  February  6,  1814. 

Henrietta  Tracy,  "  August  17,  1815. 

Harriet,  "  December  5,  1817. 

Joseph  and  Rachel  (Waters-W'hittemore)  Hooper  occupied 
a  dwelling  house  on  Harris  street  in  1803,  and  several  years 
later  a  three-story  house  on  the  northeasterly  side  of  Wash- 
ington street,  between  Boardman  and  Strong  streets,  where 
Lucy  Hooper,  the  poetess,  was  born.-* 


'  See  pages  194  and  201. 

^  Rachel,  daughter  of  Samuel  Waters  of  Salem,  Mass.,  l)i)ni  October  8,  1734, 
married  Col.  Joseph  Whittemore  in  1760,  probably.  Maiy  Whittemore  was  born 
in  Newburyport  Sept.  21,  1778.     She  died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  12,  1852. 

*  The  dates  of  birth  are  taken  from  the  Newburyport  town  records.  They  vary 
somewhat  from  the  dates  given  in  the  family  records.  Lucy  Hooper  was  probably 
born  February  6,  1S14,  not  February  4,  1816,   as  usually  printed. 

■"This  house  is  still  standing.  It  is  owned  by  the  estate  of  ^b•s.  Harriet  Morion, 
who  died  Dec.  14,  1908. 


198  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Mr.  Hooper,  with  his  wife  and  family,  removed  to  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  in  1830.      He  died  in  that  city  May  20,  1838. 

Joseph  Atkins,  son  of  Andrew  and  Sara  Atkins,  was 
baptized  November  4,  1680,  in  St.  Clement's  church,  in  the 
town  of  Sandwich,  county  of  Kent,  England.  He  probably 
came  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  in  1724,  and  tradition  asserts  that 
his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Strover,  and  two  sons, 
Joseph  and  William,  came  with  him.  He  bought  a  small  lot  of 
land  extending  from  Merrimack  river  to  Poore's  lane,  now 
Merrimack  court,  in  October,  1725.' 

His  son  Joseph,  born  in  England  in  1706,  married  Ruth 
DoHber  in  1735,  and  purchased  a  dwelling  house  and  land  in 
Marblehead,  which  he  sold  in  1740.-'  He  applied  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in 
1 748,  for  a  divorce,  w^iich  was  not  granted  \^  but  he  separated 
from  his  wife,  and  removed  to  Newburyport,  where  he  died 
February  6,  1782. 

His  son  William,  born  in  England  in  171 1,  married  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Joshua  and  Abigail  (Daniels)  Beck,  previous  to 
1738.  She  died  December  5,  1786  ;  and  he  died  August  27, 
1788.  Both  were  buried  in  St,  Paul's  churchyard,  Newbury- 
port. 

Mrs.  Atkins,  wife  of  Joseph  Atkins,  sr. ,  probably  died 
previous  to  1729.  After  her  decease.  Captain  Atkins  pur- 
chased about  one  acre  and  a  half  of  land,  at  the  foot  of  what 
is  now  Strong  street,  extending  from  Merrimack  river  to  the 
land  of  Hawthorne  Coker  on  the  southwest,  "  it  being  a  part 
of  the  homestead  of  Richard  Bartlet,  junior,  of  Newbury, 
deceased, "^  and  on  this  land  he  built  a  spacious  dwelling 
house.  April  7,  1730,  he  married  Mary,  widow  of  Francis 
Wainwright  of  Boston,  daughter  of  Joseph  Dudley,  governor 
of  the  province,  and  sister  of  Katherine,  wife  of  Lieut. -gov. 
William   Dummer. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  45,  leal  267. 

-  Essex  Deeds,  book  82,  leal  91. 

■'  Joseph  Atkins,  the  Stoiy  ol  a  P'amily,  In-  Francis  Higginson  Atkins,  page  44  no/e. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  54,  leal  128. 


MERCHAXTS,   SEA   CAPTAIXS  A. YD  SHIP  OWNERS        199 

In  1732,  he  bought  of  John  Stocker  land  on  the  south- 
easterly corner  of  Merrimack  and  Queen  streets,  with  a  dwel- 
ling house  thereon,  which,  twenty  years  later,  was  occupied  by 
his  son,  Dudley  Atkins.'  In  1738,  he  was  granted  liberty, 
with  Joseph  Titcomb,  John  Ordway  and  others,  to  build  a 
wharf  at  the  lower  end  of  Queen,  now  Market,  street.'  On 
this  wharf  he  subsequently  built  an  "OylMill,"  a  distillery 
and  several  warehouses.  He  purchased  and  conveyed  to  the 
wardens  and  vestrymen  of  St.  Paul's  church  the  land  on  the 
corner  of  High  and  Queen  streets,  on  which  the  church  was 
erected,  in  1741.^  The  statement  that  he  was  in  early  life 
an  officer  in  the  English  navy  is  probably  incorrect,  although 
he  may  have  served  in  an  inferior  capacity  at  the  taking  of 
Gibralter,  in  1704.^ 

He  died  January  21,  1773,  and  was  buried  in  St. Paul's  church- 
yard.    The  inscription  on  his  tombstone  reads  as  follows  : — 

This  Stone 
Is  erected  to  the  Memory 

of 

Joseph  Atkins,  Esquire, 

One  of  the  P'ounders  and  a  Generous 

Benefactor 

of  this  Church 

Formerly  an  Eminent  Merchant 

In  this  town 

And  Highly  Esteemed  by  those  who  knew  him, 

He  departed  this  life 

Jan.  21,  1773,  .Etat  92 

and  of 

Mrs.  Mary  Atkins 

The  virtuous  &  amiable  Relict 

of  Joseph  Atkins,  Esquire 

and  daughter  of 

His  Excellency  Joseph  Dudley. 

She  died  November  19,  1774,  .E>tat  82. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  61,  leaf  125;    and  liDok  67,  leaf  5. 

2  History  of    Newbury  (Currier),  page  482. 

'  "  Ould  Newbury  "' :    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  397. 

■•  Joseph  Atkins,  the.'^toryof  a  Kaniily,  Ijy  Francis  Higginson  Atkins,  pages  29-43. 


200  HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Soon  after  the  death  of  Joseph  Atkins  the  following  notice 
was  published  in  the  Essex  Gazette  : — 

Newbury-Port,  January  25,  1773 
On  the  2ift  Inftant  died,  and  on  this  Day  was  decently  interred,  Jo- 
seph Atkins,  Efq  :  in  the  93d  Year  of  his  Age.  He  was  born  at  Sand- 
wich, in  Old-England.  In  the  early  Part  of  his  Life  he  was  of  the 
Royal  Navy  of  England,  and  an  Officer  therein  ;  He  was  in  the  Sea 
Fight  between  the  Englifh  and  French  in  the  Year  1692,  when  the  Eng- 
lifh  gained  a  famous  naval  Victory;  He  was  at  the  taking  of  Gibralter 
and  Port-Mahon,  from  the  Spaniards.  Afterwards  he  was  a  noted  Sea 
Commander  in  the  Merchants  Service.  In  the  latter  Part  of  his  Life 
he  fettled  in  this  Place,  and  was  an  eminent  Merchant,  and  one  of  his 
Majefty's  Juftices  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of  Essex:  a  Man  of  much 
Politeness,  and  sustained  a  fair  Character  through  his  whole  life." 

Mary  (Wainwright)  Atkins,  widow  of  Joseph  Atkins,  died 
November  19,  1774.  The  following  obituary  notice  was  pub- 
lished two  weeks  after  her  decease  : — 

Died.  At  Newbury-Port,  Mrs.  Mary  Atkins,  aged  84,  Relict  of  the 
late  Jofeph  Atkins,  Efq;  of  that  place.  She  was  the  youngeft  daughter 
of  Jofeph  Dudley,  Elq ;  many  years  Governor  of  this  Province,  and 
Grand-Daughter  of  Thomas  Dudley,  Efq.,  who  was  alio  feveral  years 
Governor  under  the  firft  Charter. ^ 

Dudley,  the  only  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Dudley  (Wain- 
wright) Atkins,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  early  in  the  year 
1 73 1.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1748,  and  mar- 
ried May  7,  1752,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Hannah 
(Gookin)  Kent.  He  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for  the  in- 
corporation of  the  town  of  Newburyport  in  1764,  and  was 
elected  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  session 
beginning  May  29,  1765.  During  the  excitement  that  followed 
the  enforcement  of  the  stamp  act  in  Newburyport,  in  October 
of  that  year,  he  was  instructed  to  use  his  influence  to  secure 
for  the  inhabitants  of  Massachusetts  Bay  the  rights  and  priv- 

1  Essex  Gazette,  February  2-9,  1773  (Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.). 

2  Salem  Gazette  and  Newbury'  and  Marblehead  Advertiser,  December  2,  17  74 
(Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.). 


MKRC/IA.VTS,   SEA   CAPTAIXS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS        201 

ileges  guaranteed  to  them  by  the  provincial  charter."  He  died 
September  24,  1767  ;  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 
His  widow,  Sarah  (Kent)  Atkins,  died  October  16,  18 10,  aged 
eighty-one.  Dudley  and  Sarah  (Kent)  Atkins  had  children 
as  follows : — 

Mary  Russell,  born  in  1753  :  married  George  Searle  Mar.  21,  1779. 

Joseph,  '•  December  13,  1755.- 

Hannah,  "  April  14,  1757;  died  in  1771. 

Katherine,  "  October  9,  1758;  married  Samuel  Eliot 

Dudle}-,  "         September  3,  1 760.3 

Rebecca,  "         March  12,  1767  ;  died  June  23,  1842. 

Bex  I  AM  IN  Harrls,  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Harris  of  Boston, 
was  born  in  1718.  When  only  twenty  years  of  age  he  came 
to  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  was  one  of  the  subscribers  to  the 
fund  raised  in  1738  to  defray  the  cost  of  building  St.  Paul's 
church.  He  was  one  of  the  wardens  of  that  church  in 
1743,  and  a  vestryman  from  1746  to  1753,  and  perhaps 
longer.^  He  purchased  land  and  probably  erected  a  dwelling 
house  on  Greenleaf's  lane,  now  State  street,  as  early  as  1754.' 
In  January,  1758,  he  purchased  additional  land  through  which 
Harris  street  was  subsequently  laid  out.'^ 

He  married,  in  October,  1740,  Lucy  Whitman  of  Stowe.^ 
Elizabeth  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Lucy  (Whitman) 
Harris,  was  born  November  8,  1741,  and  another  daughter 
Mary,  who  married  Joseph  Hooper  of  Marblehead,  was  born 
November  9,  1746. 

1  Histor)'  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  43  and  44. 

-  The  gravestone  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard  erected  to  the  memor)-  of  Joseph  At- 
kins reads  as  follows:  "  Memento  Mori.  Here  are  interred  the  remains  of  Capt. 
Joseph  Atkins  who  with  his  whole  ships  company  perished  by  shipwreck  on 
Cape  Cod  Feb.  ye  8th  1787  aged  31  years." 

^  Dudley  Atkins  was  authorized  by  the  General  Court,  January  16,  1790,  to  take 
the  name  of  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng.     See  biographical  sketches,  Chapter  XXIII. 

■*  "  Ould  Newbury:"      Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  39S-404. 

"  Essex  Deeds,  book  98,  leaf  232. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  106,  leaf  159. 

'  Notice  of  the  intended  marriage  of  I.enjaniin  Harris  was  filed  with  the  town 
clerk  of  Newburj-  .Septendier  30,  1740. 


202  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Benjamin  Harris  died  March  8,  1773,  and  a  few  days  later 
the  following  notice  was  published  in  the  Essex  Gazette  : — 

Newbury-Port,  March  12,  1773. 
On  the  8th  Inftant  died  here,  much  lamented,  Benjamin  Harris,  Efq.  : 
aged  55  years,  one  of  his  Majefty's  Jultices  of  the  Peace,  only  furviving 
Son  of  the  late  Rev'd  Henry  Harris,  King's  Chaplain  in  Bofton.  He 
was  for  a  number  of  years  a  principal  merchant  in  this  Town,  in  which 
Station  of  Life  he  maintained  a  fair  Character  ;  and  by  his  fuperior 
Judgment,  and  fingular  Knowledge  in  Bufinefs  (which  he  was  ever  ready 
to  communicate)  made  himfelf  very  ufeful  to  his  Brethren  in  Trade. — 
He  had  a  peculiar  Turn  for  Society,  and  was  highly  acceptable  to  his 
Friends.  As  to  his  domeftic  Relations,  he  was  a  very  tender  Huf  band 
and  Parent,  a  very  kind,  humane  mafter.  In  the  Courfe  of  his  Affairs 
he  employed  many  People,  by  whom  he  was  greatly  refpected,  and  who 
are  among  the  numerous  and  fincere  Mourners  at  his  Death.' 

The  inscription  on  his  tombstone  in   St.  Paul's  churchyard 
reads  as  follows  : — 

Sacred  to  the  Memory 

of 
Benjamin  Harris,  Esq'' 
who  died  March  8,   1773, 
Aged  55  years 
This  modest  stone,  what  few  proud  marbles  can. 
May  truly  say ;  Here  lies  a  worthy  man 
Who  never  suffered  fickle  Fortune's  power 
To  swell  his  Heart  with  Pride,  or  Temper  sour 
But  passed  the  space  to  him  by  Heaven  assigned 
In  useful  actions  and  with  cheerful  mind. 
When  Death  approached,  with  life  quite  satisfied 
Thank"d  Heaven  that  he  had  lived  and  that  he  died. 


His  widow,  Lucy  Harris,  died  October  15,  1776,  aged  fifty- 


six. 


William  Farris,  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1753,  came 
to  Newburyport  in  1765,  and  was  with  Benedict  Arnold  in  the 
expedition  to  Quebec  in  1775.      He  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 

'  Essex  Gazette,  March  9-16,  1773  (Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.). 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  S/IIF  OITNEA'S        203 

ter  of  Joseph  Laughton  of  Boston,  soon  after  the  close  of  the 
RevoUitionary  war.  Margaret,  daughter  of  W'iUiam  and  Eliz- 
abeth Karris,  born  in  Newburyport  February  i,  1786,  was 
baptized  in  St.  Paul's  church  on  the  twelfth  of  March  follow- 
ing. Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Laughton)  Farris  died  November  29, 
1787,  when  only  twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  was  buried 
in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

Mr.  Farris  married  F" ranees  Jenkins,  his  second  wife,  De- 
cember 15,  1789;  and  in  company  with  Ebenezer  Stocker, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Farris  &  Stocker,  was  for  ten  or 
fifteen  years  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits.'  He  was  sub- 
sequently appointed  president  of  the  Newburyport  Marine 
Insurance  Company,  and  was  elected  representative  to  the 
General  Court  eight  consecutive  years,  his  term  of  service 
extending  from  May  30,  1827,  to  December,  1834.  He  died 
November  22,  1837,  and  his  widow,  Frances  (Jenkins)  Farris, 
died  April  5,  1839.     Both  were  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

During  the  war  between  France  and  England,  in  1798,  the 
firm  of  Farris  &  Stocker  met  with  reverses  and  retired  from 
business  three  or  four  years  later.  Subsequently,  Mr.  Farris 
applied  for  and  received  a  pension  from  the  United  States 
government,  as  stated  in  the  following  petition  : — 

To  the  Honorable  Lewis  Cass, 
Secretary  of  War. 

William  P'arris  of  Newburyport,  in  the  county  of  Essex  and  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  one  of  the  surviving  officers  of  the  Navy  of 
the  Revolution,  asks  leave  respectfully  to,  Represent : 

That  under  the  late  Act  of  Congress,  of  the  7th  of  June,  A.  D.  1832, 
"supplementary  to  an  Act  for  the  relief  of  certain  surviving  officers  and 
soldiers  of  the  Revolution,"  he  made  application  conformably  to  the 
regulations  of  your  Department  for  its  benefits,  and  a  Certificate  has 
been  issued  to  him  which  is  numbered  21,294,  by  which  he  becomes  en- 
titled to  a  pension  of  seventy-two  dollars  per  annum  during  his  natural 

1  In  1798,  Ebenezer  Stocker  built  and  sul.sequently  occupied  the  dwelling  house 
on  High  street  now  known  as  the  Old  Ladies  Home  ("Quid  Newbury:"  Histori- 
cal and  Hiographical  Sketches,  page  173). 


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HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


life,  and  he  has  regularly  received  the  amount  due  thereon,  as  far  as  the 
fourth  day  of  September  last  past  ;  but,  in  as  much  as  your  petitioner 
apprehends,  that  an  error  has  been  committed  in  the  computation  of  his 
term  of  service,  or  that  he  may  have  been  mis-apprehended,  in  the  dec- 
laration which  he  then  made,  as  respects  the  different  periods  in  which 
he  served,  or  the  station  which  was  assigned  him  in  said  service,  he 
would  now  pray  your  indulgence  while  he  lays  before  you  the  whole 
amount  of  what  he  believes  to  be  his  just  claims  for  further  considera- 
tion under  the  said  Act,  that  such  additional  allowance  may  be  awarded 
to  him  as  you  shall  believe  him  to  be  entitled  to  receive  under  all  the 
circumstances  of  his  case  ;  respectfully  requesting,  should  further  evi- 
dence be  required,  he  ma}'  be  permitted  to  offer  such  as  it  may  be  within 
his  power  to  procure. 

In  his  application  to  your  Department  in  July,  1832,  your  petitioner 
stated  that  he  was  at  Quebec  as  first  officer  of  the  Ship  Mary  Ann,  be- 
longing to  Boston,  in  the  summer  of  the  year  1775,  and  there  made  ar- 
rangements with  Captain  Hector  McNiel,  and  was  under  further  engage- 
ment with  him  for  a  voyage  and  as  first  Officer  of  a  vessel,  in  the 
Merchants  service  with  him,  and  while  thus  engaged,  and  before  the 
lading  of  the  vessel,  information  was  received  of  an  expedition  under- 
taken by  General  Arnold,  in  the  service  of  the  United  States,  who  was 
then  on  his  way  through  the  woods.  To  the  best  of  his  remembrance, 
General  Arnold  appeared  with  his  Army  in  the  month  of  November  of 
that  year,  and  immediately  thereupon  a  proclamation  was  issued  by 
Lieutenant  Governor  Crambries  requiring  every  Individual  in  the  City 
to  take  arms  in  its  defence,  or  depart  therefrom  within  three  days,  and 
declaring  all  who  did  not  thus  manifest  their  allegiance  Rebels  and  Spies. 
Your  petitioner  did  not  hesitate  to  make  his  election,  but  immediately 
procured  a  passport,  leaving  all  his  effects  behind  him,  excepting  only 
such  few  articles  as  were  necessary  for  a  change,  and  those  contained  in 
a  single  handkerchief,  left  the  City,  and  proceeded  to  join  the  standard 
of  his  country,  under  General  Arnold,  who  was  then  at  about  thirteen 
miles  distance  ;  he  was  favorably  received  by  the  General,  and  was  im- 
mediately stationed  by  him  at  a  place  called  Point  aux  Trembles,  and 
there  given  in  charge  the  care  of  several  vessels,  which  had  been  cap- 
tured from  the  British,  and  placed  in  a  small  creek  at  that  place  ;  from 
these  vessels  various  articles  which  were  considered  useful  and  necessary 
for  the  American  Army  were  selected  and  sent  down  from  thence  by 
land.  At  this  place  he  was  stationed  during  the  whole  of  the  following 
Winter,  having  with  him  an  officer  from  General  Arnold's  Army,  and  a 
few  soldiers,  for  the  protection  of  this  property.  On  the  breaking  up  of 
the  ice  in  the  spring  following,  he  was  sent  across   the  river  to  direct 


MERCHAXTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AXD  SHIP  OIVXERS         205 

some  Canadians,  who  were  employed  for  that  purpose,  in  making  a  num- 
ber of  sweeps,  or  large  bars,  for  the  use  of  gondolas,  which  were  to  be 
employed  in  transporting  heavy  cannon,  and  as  soon  as  the  Ice  was 
sufficiently  cleared  away  he  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the 
Schooner  Isabella,  one  of  the  prises  which  had  been  captured  from  the 
British,  mounting  four  carriage  guns,  and  with  this  vessel  was  ordered 
for  Montreal,  as  a  transport,  with  supplies  for  the  American  army.  On 
arriving  at  said  Montreal,  it  was  found  that  General  Arnold  had  been 
superceded  in  the  command  at  Quebec,  and  that  information  had  been 
received  of  the  arrival  of  a  British  fleet,  upon  which  General  Arnold 
immediately  ordered  all  the  materials  which  were  considered  useful  and 
proper  for  the  American  Army  to  be  selected,  and  these  were  laden  and 
put  on  board  the  said  Schooner,  which  was  then  under  the  command  of 
vour  petitioner,  and  General  Arnold,  Colonel  Burr,  and  several  other 
officers  of  the  American  Army  took  passage  in  said  Schooner  with  him 
and  went  down  to  the  River  Sorcel,  where  reinforcements  for  the  Army 
were  arriving,  and  at  that  place  said  Schooner  was  hauled  in  near  the 
banks,  and  the  General  and  all  his  officers  continued  on  board  several 
days,  having  no  convenient  place  on  shore  for  their  accommodation. 

When  it  became  necessary  to  leave  the  said  Schooner,  there  appearing 
no  further  use  for  her,  or  for  the  services  of  your  petitioner  at  thatplace, 
he  procured  a  passport  from  Colonel  Burr,  with  which  about  the  middle 
of  June,  1776,  he  proceeded  for  the  United  States,  with  a  view  of  enter- 
ing the  Navy,  having  been  employed  in  the  service  of  the  United  States, 
having  the  charge  of  said  prises,  and  in  the  command  of  said  Schooner, 
the  full  term  of  seven  months.  In  this  service  and  in  this  station,  al- 
though a  volunteer,  he  humbly  conceives  that  under  the  provisions  of 
the  said  Act,  he  became  entitled  to  3'our  consideration,  notwithstanding 
he  has  not  at  this  day  an}'  document  which  shall  evidence  his  appoint- 
ment, or  may  not  be  able  to  offer  further  evidence  than  that  which  may 
be  found  in  the  rolls  of  the  War  Department,  if  such  have  been  pre- 
served. Vour  petitioner  would  further  respectfully  represent,  that  after- 
wards, in  the  year  1776,  and  to  the  best  of  his  present  recollection,  in 
the  month  of  August,  or  September  at  farthest  of  that  year,  he  entered 
the  Navy  of  the  United  States,  and  served  as  midshipman  in  the  United 
States  Frigate  Boston,  then  under  the  command  of  Captain  Hector  Mc- 
Niel,  and  in  the  Summer  of  the  year  1777  sailed  in  her  as  such  on  a 
cruise  in  company  with  the  United  States  Frigate  Hancock,  commanded 
by  Captain  Manley,  and  was  absent  on  that  cruise  until  the  Autumn  of 
1777,  when  she  returned  to  the  United  States.  On  her  return,  there 
having  been  a  disagreement  between  the  Lieutenants,  Master,  and  other 
Officers  of  the  Frigate  and  Captain  McNiel,  they  left  the  Ship,  and  pre- 


2  o6  fil^  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

ferred  charges  against  the  commanding  officer,  which  were  made  the  sub- 
ject of  a  Court  of  Inquiry,  and  under  the  direction  of  Captain  McNiel^ 
your  petitioner  was  appointed  and  acted  in  the  capacity  of  a  Lieutenant, 
and  in  attending  to  the  repairs,  recruiting,  and  refitting  the  Frigate  and 
preparing  her  for  Sea,  so  ser\'ed  until  she  was  fully  in  readiness,  in  the 
daily  expectation  of  receiving  a  commission  as  Lieutenant,  having  had 
assurances  from  Captain  McNiel  that  such  would  be  furnished  him  be- 
fore proceeding  on  another  cruise.  Captain  McNiel  was,  however,  super- 
ceeded,  and  Captain  Tucker  was  appointed  to  the  command,  and  on  his 
arrival  brought  with  him  the  officers  which  had  been  selected  and  ap- 
pointed to  serve  with  him,  and  there  remained  no  further  service  for  your 
petitioner  which  he  could  perform  with  honor  to  himself  or  benefit  to  his 
country  on  board  that  Ship,  and  remained  ashore.  In  this  service  your 
petitioner  had  been  actually  employed  the  full  term  of  twenty-one 
months,  as  stated  in  his  declaration  now  in  your  Department,  and  his- 
whole  term  of  service,  two  years  and  four  months,  several  months  of 
which  was  in  the  capacity  of  Lieutenant  on  board  said  Frigate,  although 
not  commissioned,  and  holding  only  his  Warrant  as  Midshipman  as 
aforesaid.  If  therefore  he  be  considered  as  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the 
said  Act  which  provides,  as  he  believes,  full  pay  for  Officers  and  Seamen; 
who  shall  have  served  the  full  term  of  Two  years,  he  would  respectfully 
ask,  whether  the  time  which  he  served  as  a  volunteer  at  Quebec,  as  com- 
mander of  said  Schooner  Isabella,  which  was  then  admitted  to  be  use- 
full,  will  not  entitle  him  to  further  consideration  in  the  appointment  of 
pension  than  that  which  is  allowed  to  soldiers  and  Seamen.  Your  peti- 
tioner is  not  now  receiving  any  benefit  from  the  Act  of  Congress  of  the 
1 8th  of  March,  1818,  which  made  provision  for  him  as  a  Midshipman  in 
the  Navy  on  Continental  Establishment,  as  will  be  seen  by  reference  to- 
the  record  in  the  War  office,  he  did  indeed  make  apphcation  for  the 
benefits  of  that  act,  and  in  the  declaration  which  he  then  made  of  his 
service,  it  was  not  required  that  further  seivice  should  be  shewn  than 
what  established  Nine  months  service  on  the  Continental  Establishment,, 
no  other  provision  being  made  by  said  act  than  what  was  established  for 
Officers  and  seamen.  Certificate  was  issued  to  him  as  of  the  latter,  and 
under  that  Certificate,  which  was  numbered  2638,  he  was  entitled  to 
Eight  dollars  per  month,  which  he  continued  to  receive  until  by  a  subse- 
quent Law  of  Congress,  he  was  required  to  submit  a  schedule  of  his 
estate  to  your  department,  to  do  which  your  petitioner,  although  in  cir- 
cumstances in  life  absolutely  requiring  the  aid  of  his  country  for  sup- 
port, was  apprehensive  would  wound  the  feelings  of  his  family  and 
friends,  and  not  having  rendered  such  Schedule  was  dropped  from  said 
Roll,  and  has  not  since  received  any  benefit  therefrom.     Your  petitioner 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAIXS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       207 

asks  leave  further  to  represent  tliat  it  is  not  now  in  his  power  to  state 
the  amount  of  pay  allowed  him  while  commanding  officer  of  said  Schoon- 
er or  that  of  Midshipman  on  board  said  Frigate,  and  can  only  expect 
the  apportionment  that  had  been  made  to  others  for  similar  service. 
That  he  is  now  in  the  Eightieth  year  of  his  age,  and  under  the  necessity 
of  relying  on  this  provision  made  by  his  country  to  support  him  in  his 
declining  years. 

William  Farris. 

Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 

Essex,  ss.  Newburyport,  Nov.  2,  1 833.  Then  personally  came 
William  Farris,  within  named,  and  on  oath  declared  in  due  form  of  Law, 
that  all  the  facts  contained  in  the  within  written  application  by  him  sub- 
scribed are  correct  and  true,  according  to  his  best  knowledge,  before  me, 

W.  Woart,  Justice  of  the  Peaces 

Jonathan  Greenleaf,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Moody) 
Greenleaf,  was  born  in  1723,  in  the  town  of  Newbury.  When 
only  seven  years  of  age,  his  father  having  been  drowned  two 
years  previously,  leaving  his  mother  in  destitute  circumstances, 
he  was  bound  by  a  written  contract  to  serve  as  an  apprentice 
to  Edward  Presbury,  who  owned  and  occupied  a  ship-yard  on 
Water  street,  near  the  foot  of  Chandler's  lane,  now  Federal 
street,  Newburyport.  In  1 744,  he  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  his  master,  Edward  Presbury,  and  probably  lived  in  a  house 
on  the  southwesterly  side  of  Water  street,  near  the  residence 
of  his  father-in-law.  In  October,  1747,  he  purchased  land 
between  the  house  where  he  resided  and  the  house  of  Nathan 
Brown,  and  in  December  of  the  same  year  bought  of  Edward 
Presbury  a  small  lot  of  land  bounded  in  part  by  the  land 
purchased  in  October.- 

He  was  a  ship-carpenter,  and  began  building  ships  on  his 
own  account  previous  to  1750.     A  crockery  punch  bowl,  pre- 

'  Papers  and  public  documents  formerly  in  the  possession  of  the  late  Hon. 
Jeremiah  Nelson,  member  of  congress  from  the  Fourth  Massachusetts  district,  re- 
cently presented  to  the  Old  Newbury  Historical  Society. 

■•^  Essex  Deeds,  book  93,  leaves  102  and  120. 


208 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YT'OR  T 


sented  to  him  by 
a  merchant  in  Ed- 
inburgh, Scotland, 
for  whom  he  had 
built  several  ves- 
sels, is  now  in  the 
possession  of  his 
great-great  -  grand  - 

daughter,  Mrs.  Henry  B.  Little  of  Newburyport.      This  bowl 
is  shown  in  the  engravings  on  this  page.     On  the  inside  is  the 

figure  of  a  ship, 
tl\mg  the  provin- 
cial flag,  with  the 
mscription  : — 

A  Ship  at  Lanch 
lonathan  Greenleaf 

1752 


On  the  sixth  of 
June,  1765,  he 
bought  of  Isaac 
Johnson  one-un- 
divided-eighth part  of  the  lower  long  wharf,  with  the  ware- 
house thereon,  and  in  the  month  of  September  following- 
Joseph  Swasey  conveyed  to  him  one-undivided-twenty-fourth 
part  of  the  "  land  granted  by  the  town  of  Newbury  to 
Build  a  Wharf  upon  at  the  lower  end  of  Chandler's  lane,  or 
King  street,  so  called,  together  with  the  wharf  thereupon  com- 
monly called  Lower  Long  Wharf,  or  King  Wharf,  now  in  New- 
buryport, together  with  all  the  Priviledges  and  appurtenances 
thereunto  belonging.'''  One  year  later  he  purchased  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  town  of  Newbury  land  adjoining  the  above- 
described  property,  and  in  1 769  one-undivided-sixth  part  of 
the  wharf  was  conveyed  to  him   by   Woodbridge   Cottle  and 


1  Essex  Deeds,  book  ii8,  leaves  24,  26  and  28. 


MERC/IAXrS,   SEA   CAPTAINS  AXD  SHIP  OIVXERS        209 

l^enjamin  Luiit.'  In  1770,  Isaac  Johnson  sold  the  building 
yard  that  his  father  gave  him  by  will,  adjoining  the  lower 
long  wharf,  to  Jonathan  Greenleaf.- 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  Mr.  Greenleaf 
was  a  member  of  the  committee  of  correspondence,  inspection 
and  safety,^  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  provincial  congress 
held  at  Cambridge  in  February,  and  at  Watertown  in  May, 
1775.'*  He  was  associated  with  Stephen  and  Ralph  Cross  in 
building  the  frigate  Boston,  mounting  twenty-four  guns,  the 
Hancock,  thirty-two  guns,  and  the  Protector,  twenty  guns,  for 
Massachusetts,  in  1776  and  1778,5  and  was  a  member  of  the 
convention  called  for  the  purpose  of  framing  a  new  constitu- 
tion for  the  state  in  1780.  He  represented  Newburyport, 
from  1769  to  1780,  at  the  annual  sessions  of  the  General 
Court,  except  for  the  year  1776,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
state  senate  in  1780,  1781,  and  1782,  a  representative  to  the 
General  Court  in  1787,  1788  and  1789  and  state  senator  in 
1790  and  1 79 1.  He  was  a  man  of  great  executive  ability, 
with  a  good  share  of  common  sense  and  a  profound  knowledge 
of  human  nature.  By  his  persuasive  speech  and  conciliatory 
manner  he  was  able  to  overcome  his  poHtical  opponents  and 
secure  the  adoption  of  measures  that  were  sometimes  vigorously 
opposed.  In  his  later  years,  he  generally  wore  shoes  with  oval 
silver  buckles,  knee  breeches,  a  dark  blue  coat  with  brass 
buttons,  a  ruffled  shirt,  a  powdered  wig  and  a  cocked  hat. 
He  died  May  24,  1807,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill 
burying  ground,  near  the  Pond  street  entrance,  a  few  rods  in 
a  northwesterly  direction  from  the  graves  of  Nathaniel  Tracy 
and  Rev.  Thomas  Cary. 

The  inscription  on  his  gravestone  reads  as  follows  : — 


'  Essex  Deeds,  book  121,  leaf  92;  and  book  129,  leaf  19. 

-  Essex  Deeds,  book  129,  leaf  19;  andHistorj'  of  Newbun-  (Ciuriei),  page  480. 

'  History  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  535  and  555  note. 

■•  History  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  537. 

*  History  of  Ne\vbur\'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  572  and  587. 


2  lo  HIST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Sacred 

To  the  Memory  of 

The  Honorable  Jonathan  Greenleaf  Esq. 

professor  of  rehgion  in  youth,  a  ruhng  Elder  in  the 

Church  &  member  of  the    Legislature   &   Council  of 

Massachusetts.     Likewise    of  Mrs.    Mary  Greenleaf, 

his  Wife.     They    were  united  in   the   Married  State 

62  years  ;  they  were  distant  in  birth  a  few  months,  in 

death  a  fortnight,  each  expiring  about  the  age  of  84, 

May,  1807. 

Jonathan  and  Mary  (Presbury)  Greenleaf  had  nine  chil- 
dren,— six  sons  and  three  daughters.  Two  sons  and  one 
daughter  died  in  infancy  or  early  childhood.  The  names  of 
the  children  who  lived  to  a  mature  age  are  as  follows  : — 

Simon,  born  in  1752  ;  married  Hannah  Osgood  of  Andover;  died  in  1776. 
Sarah,  born  May  31,    1753;  niarried   Capt.   William    Pierce    Johnson  in 

October,  1770;  died  February  3,  1839. 
Moses,  born  May  ig,  1755  ;  married  Lydia  Parsons  September  17,  1776; 

died  December  18,  1812. 
Enoch,  born   October  ir,    1757;  married    Mary   Stone,    and    afterward 

Dorothy  Ingersoll  ;  died  Jan.  9,   179S. 
Catherine,  born  Nov.  12,  i  759:  married  Anthony  Davenport  Nov.  25,  i  788; 

died  November  15,  1838. 
Richard,  born  July  3,  1762;  married  Marcia  Tappan   October  2,    1762; 

died  February  1 1 ,  i  796. 

Philip  Coombs  was  born  on  the  island  of  Guernsey,  in  the 
Enghsh  channel,  in  the  year  1705.  He  came  to  Newbury, 
Mass.,  at  a  very  early  age,  and  purchased,  November  30, 
1734,  of  Ralph  Cross,  a  dwelling  house  on  Water  street,  with 
land  extending  to  the  Merrimack  river.'  He  married,  July 
lO)  I735>  Lydia,  daughter  of  William  and  Martha  (Pierce) 
Johnson  of  Newbury.^ 

Philip  Coombs  was  a   ship-carpenter,    and  during  the  war 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  78,  leaf  261. 

2  William  Johnson,  by  his  will,  dated  March  12,  1739,  and   proved  July  6,  I  741 
gave  to  his  daughter,  "  Lydia  Coombs,"  several  acres  of  land  and  a  silver  mug. 


MERC//A.VTS,   SEA   CAPTA/XS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS      211 

between  France  and  England,  in  1756,  he  went  with  Stephen 
and  Ralph  Cross  and  others  to  the  eastern  shore  of  Lake 
Ontario,  where  he  was  employed  for  several  months  in  build- 
ing sloops  and  whaleboats  for  the  transportation  of  troops 
and  munitions  of  war."  At  the  surrender  of  Fort  Oswego,  he 
Avas  taken  prisoner,  carried  to  France,  and  imprisoned  at 
Dijon,  where  he  died  January  2,  1757. 

The  following-named  children  of  Philip  and  Lydia  (John- 
son) Coombs  were  born  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport  :— 

William,  born  in  September,  1736. 

Martha,       •■      May  29,  1739  •  niarried  Benj.  Knight  Nov.  25,  1762  ; 

died  December  24,  1806. 
Lydia,         •■     in  1742  :        married  William  Knapp  July  2,  1761. 
Betty,         ••     June  S,  1744:  married  probably  Robert  Lascomb, 

;  and  afterward  WiUiani  Bartlet. 

John,  "      March  23,  1746-7. 

Mary,         ••     February  7,  1747-8. 

William  Coombs,  son  of  Philip  and  Lydia  (Johnson) 
-Coombs,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1736.  Me  learned  the  trade  of  a  ship-carpenter,  and 
went  to  Fort  Oswego,  on  Lake  Ontario,  with  his  father,  in 
the  war  of  1756.  He  was  taken  prisoner,  carried  to  France, 
and  confined  for  several  months  in  a  stone  fortress  at  Dijon. 
After  his  release  he  returned  to  Newbury,  and  married,  July 
17,  1760,  Jane,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Abigail  (Moody) 
Greenleaf.  He  lived  for  many  years  in  the  house  that  his 
father  had  previously  occupied,  on  Water  street,  between 
Federal  and  Lime  streets. 

Nine  children  were  born  to  William  and  Jane  (Greenleaf) 
•Coombs,  as  follows  : — 

Lydia,  born  December  7,  1761  ;  died  May  5,  1785,  unmarried. 
Jane,       "     Jan.  22,  1764;  married  Ebenezer  Greenleaf  Dec.  28,  1796; 

died  in  1849. 

'  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  560-564;  History  of  Newburyport  (Mrs. 
E.  Vale  Smith),   pages  381-383. 


2  r  2  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Anna,    born  Mar.  23,  1765  ;  married  Ebenr  Wheelwright  May  10,  1791 

Wilham,    ••  June  25,  1767. 

Mary,         •■  p^eb.  13,  1769;  married  Luther  Waterman  May  24,  1798. 

Philip,        •'  July  10,  1770;  married  Elizabeth  Harrod  July  7,  1799. 

Abigail,      ••  in  March,  1772;  died  September  13,  1773. 

Elizabetli,  ••  Aug.  8,  1773;  married  Rev.  Daniel  Dana  Dec.  30,  1800. 

Susanna,    •■  Nov.  4,  1779;  married  Rev.  Samuel  Dana  April  12,  1801  ; 

died  September  13,  1805. 

Jane  (Greenleaf)  Coombs  died  April  9,  1783,  and  William 
Coombs  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Michal  Jenkins,  widow 
of  Robert  Jenkins,  October  21,  1784.'  There  was  only  one 
child  by  this  marriage,  Lydia,  born  January  i,  1786.  She 
died  August  19,  18 12. 

At  an  early  age,  Mr.  Coombs  became  interested  in  com- 
mercial affairs,  and  had  command  of  a  ship  engaged  in  the 
West  India  trade.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary 
war  he  brought  a  large  supply  of  arms  and  ammunition  from 
the  island  of  Gaudeloupe  for  the  use  of  the  Continental  army. 
When  peace  was  declared  he  was  an  active  and  enterprising 
merchant  in  Newburyport,  and  soon  became  one  of  the  largest 
importers  of  foreign  merchandise  in  the  town.  In  1783,  he 
built  and  afterwards  occupied  the  three-story  brick  dwelling 
house  on  the  southwesterly  side  of  Water  street,  near  the 
corner  of  Lime  street.-  A  large  garden,  extending  back  to 
Milk  street,  filled  with  fruit  trees  and  flowering  shrubs,  added 
to  the  dignity  and  elegance  of  the  mansion  that  is  now  a 
somewhat  dilapidated  two-tenement  boarding  house. 

He  was  one  of  the  contributors  to  the  fund  raised  in  New- 
buryport in  1 798  for  the  purpose  of  building  the  ship  Merri- 
mack for  the  United  States  government,  and  was  elected  rep- 
resentative to  the  General    Court   for  the  session  beginning 

1  Robert  Jenkins  married  Michal  Martjuand  December  30,  1764.  Children: 
Sarah,  born  November  2  7,  1765;  married  William  Wesley  Prout.  Robert,  married 
Elizabeth  Fouquet.  Frances,  married,  December  15,  1789,  William  Farris. 
Elizabeth  (?),  married  Israel  (?)  Young. 

■•'  Essex  Deeds,  book  141,  leaf  102. 


MERCHANTS,   SKA   CAPTAIXS  AXD  SHIP  OWNERS         213 

May  29,  1799,  being  re-elected  for  three  consecutive  years. 
He  was  treasurer  of  the  Newburyport  Marine  Society  from 
November  13,  1772,  to  November  2,  1775;  vice-president 
from  November  2,  1775,  to  November  6,  1777;  and  presi- 
dent from  November  28,  1782,  to  November  29,  1804.  He 
died  May  27,  18 14,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill  burying 
ground.  His  widow,  Michal  (Jenkins-Marquand)  Coombs, 
died  November  23,  1834. 

Michael  Dalton,  son  of  Philemon  and  Abigail  Dalton, 
was  born  in  Hampton,  N,  H.,  February  22,  1709.  He  came 
to  Newbury,  Mass.,  at  a  very  early  age,  and  after  several 
voyages  to  the  West  Indies,  as  an  ordinary  seaman,  he  was 
placed  in  command  of  a  ship,  and  was  soon  a  ship  owner  and 
large  importer  of  West  India  goods.  He  married,  February 
5,  1733-4,  Mary,  daughter  of  Tristram  Little,  and  lived  for 
ten  or  twelve  years  in  a  dwelling  house  on  the  northerly, 
or  northwesterly,  side  of  Market  square.  He  was  one  of  the 
prominent  members  of  St.  Paul's  church  when  it  was  organized, 
in  1738,  and  contributed  liberally  to  its  support.  In  1746, 
he  bought  about  three  acres  of  land  on  Fish  street,  now 
State  street,  Newburyport,  where  he  erected  a  fine  large 
dwelling  house,  now  owned  and  occupied  as  a  club  house  by 
the  members  of  the  Dalton  club.  In  1765,  he  purchased  a 
wharf  at  the  foot  of  Queen,  now  Market,  street,  and  built  a 
distillery  which  he  operated  for  several  years.  He  died 
March  i,  1776,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard.' 

The  following  notice  was  published  in  the  Essex  Gazette, 
March  6-13,  1770  : — - 

Newbury-Port,  March  i. 
This  Day  died  here,  after  a  hngering  Indilpofition,  and   the   Monday 
following  was  decently  interred,  Michael  Dalton,  El'q ;  He  was  a  Gentle- 
man much  esfteemed  in  this  Place,  and  his  Death  of  Confequence  much 
lamented.     His  religious  Character  was  very  exemplary:  He  was  a  con- 

'  "  Oukl  Newbury:"    Historical  and  Hiographical  Sketches,  pages  475-477. 


2J4 


HISTOR  V  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 


ftant  and  devout  Communicant  in  the  Church ;  to  which  he  was  a  great 
Benefactor.  He  was  a  good  member  of  Society;  a  hofpitable  man,  and, 
while  in  Health,  a  focial,  agreeable  Companion;  very  amiable  in  his 
domeftic  Relations  ;  a  great  Friend  to  the  Poor,  many  of  whom  he  em- 
ployed and  fupported,  and  by  whom  his  memory  is  bleffed." 

Tristram  Dalton,  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  (Little) 
Dalton,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  May  28, 
1738.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1755,  and  mar- 
ried, October  24,  1758,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Robert  Hooper  of 
Marblehead.  Previous  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  he  was  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  and  commercial  pursuits,  and  was  after- 
wards elected  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  several 
years  in  succession.  At  the  first  session  of  congress,  after 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  he  was 
a  senator  from  Massachusetts.  His  term  of  office  expired  in 
March,  1791.  When  Washington,  D.  C,  was  selected  as  the 
permanent  seat  of  the  government,he  sold  his  property  in  New- 
bury and  Newburyport  and  removed  to  Washington.  In  181  5, 
owing  to  financial  reverses  and  heavy  losses  in  real  estate,  he 
returned  to  Massachusetts  and  accepted  a  clerkship  in  the 
Boston  custom  house.  He  died  in  Boston  May  30,  181 7, 
and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  Newburyport. - 

Peter  Le  Breton,  son  of  Anthony  and  Mary  Le  Breton, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  Nantes,  France,  October  17,  1745. 
At  a  very  early  age  he  went  to  the  island  of  Gaudaloupe,  in 
the  West  Indies,  where  his  brother  Stephen  had  a  plantation, 
but  was  advised,  on  account  of  ill  health,  to  make  a  trip  to 
New  England,  in  1766.  He  came  to  Newburyport,  and 
boarded  for  several  years  in  the  family  of  Capt.  William 
Noyes,  on  Liberty  street,  devoting  most  of  his  time  to  mer- 
cantile pursuits.     Meeting  with  reverses,   he  decided  to  turn 

^  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

2  For  additional  facts  relating  to  the  life  of  Tristram  Dalton,  see  biographical 
sketch,  by  Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone,  published  in  the  Historical  Collections  of  the 
Essex  Institute,  volume  XXV;  "  Ould  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical 
Sketches,  pages  475-483;  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  568. 


MFRCHAXTS,   SEA   CAPJ'AIXS  AXD  S///P  OirXKA'S      215 

his  attention  to  maritime  affairs,  and  soon  became  a  ship- 
master and  ship-owner.' 

Remarried  Elizabeth  Pearson  April  28,  1776;  and  pur- 
chased, May  20,  1777,  *' land  on  a  way  two  rods  broad  for- 
merly called  new  lain,"^  now  Middle  street,  where  he  built 
a  two-story  dwelling  house,  which  he  owned  and  occupied  for 
many  years.^  His  wife  died  in  December,  1781,  and  he  mar- 
ried, March  4,  1783,  Elizabeth  Sawyer.  He  died  February 
24,  181  3.  The  members  of  St.  Peter's  and  St.  Mark's  lodges 
of  F'ree  and  Accepted  Masons  attended  the  funeral  services 
at  his  residence  on  Middle  street.  His  widow,  Elizabeth 
{Sawyer)  Le  Breton,  died  May  4,  1822. 

Peter  and  Elizabeth  (Pearson)  Le  Breton  had  a  son,  Peter, 
born  August  6,  i  yyj,  and  a  daughter,  EUza,  born  May  22,  1 780. 
Eliza  Le  Breton  married  David  Stickney  January  4,  1805. 
Mr.  Stickney  died  in  1820,  and  his  widow  married,  in  1826, 
Rev.  Henry  C.  Wright  of  West  Newbur)-.  Peter  Le  Breton, 
jr.,  born  in  1777,  married  Tabitha  Lewis  of  Marblehead  in 
September,  1800.  The  children  of  Peter  and  Tabitha  (Lewis) 
Le  Breton  were  as  follows  : — 

Peter,  bom  Feb.  15,  1802;  married  Sarah  Ellen  Chase  Nov.  2,  1823. 
Elizabeth,  born  Aug.  21,  1803;  married  Henry  Johnson  April  10,  1823. 
Edmund  Lewis,  born  Mar.  7,  1805  ;   married  Lucy  O.  Prescott,  daughter 

of  Oliver  Prescott,  Sept.  i,  1829. 
Mary  Anthony,  born  Dec.  20,  1806;  married  Henry  Johnson  May  4,  1829. 
Stephen,  born  October  30,  1808:  died,  unmarried,  Nov.  4,  1834. 
Caroline  Lewis,  bom  Feb.   11,    1811;    married   John    Stephen    Bartlett 

in  July,  1832.     He  died  in  1840,  and 

she    married,   in    May,    1842,    Capt. 

William  Hammond  of  Marblehead. 
•George  Washington,  born  May  5,  1813  ;  killed  in  a  tight  with  the  Indians 

in  Oregon  March  6,  1844. 

'  John  Woodwell,  Enoch  Hale  and  others  built  for  Captain  Le  Breton  the  brig 
Peter,  in  1794,  the  ship  William  F.  Johnson,  in  1S04,  and  the  ship  Hercules  in  1810. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  135,  leaf  142. 

3  When  Fair  street  was  laid  out  in  1782,  the  house  was  then  standing  on  the 
northwesterly  corner  of  that  street  and  Middle  street. 


2  1 6  HIS  TORY  OF  NEIVB  UR  YPOR  T 

Patrick  Tracy  was  probably  born  in  the  county  of  Wex- 
ford, Ireland,  in  171 1.  He  came  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  at  a 
very  early  age,  and  soon  became  a  prominent  ship-master  and 
ship  owner.  He  married,  January  23,  1742,  Hannah  Carter 
of  Hampton,  N.  H.  She  died  March  27,  1746;  and  Cap- 
tain Tracy  married  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Gookin  of 
Hampton,  July  25,  1749.  Soon  after  that  date,  he  purchased 
a  dweUing"  house,  with  a  small  lot  of  land,  on  the  southwest- 
erly side  of  Water  street,  near  the  foot  of  State  street,  where 
two  sons,  Nathaniel  and  John  Tracy,  and  one  daughter,  Han- 
nah, who  married  Jonathan  Jackson,  were  born. 

Mrs.  Hannah  (Gookin)  Tracy  died  August  20,  1756,  and 
Captain  Tracy  married,  for  his  third  wife,  Mary,  widow  of 
Michael  Dalton,  March  23,  1773.  There  were  no  children 
by  this  last  marriage. 

Captain  Tracy  was  one  of  the  petitioners  to  the  General 
Court,  in  1763,  for  the  incorporation  of  Nevvburyport,  and 
was  afterwards  a  prominent  merchant  in  the  new  town  and  a 
large  importer  of  foreign  merchandise.  In  1774,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  of  safety  and  an  active  supporter 
of  the  provincial  government  during  the  Revolutionary  war. 
He  died  February  28,  1789,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's 
churchyard."  A  portrait  of  Captain  Tracy,  painted  by  an 
unknown  artist,  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the 
opposite  page. 

Nicholas  Tracy  was  probably  born  in  Wexford  county, 
province  of  Lemster,  Ireland,  in  1726.  He  came  to  Newbury 
at  a  very  early  age,  and  for  several  years  was  employed  as  an 
ordinary  seaman  in  the  coasting  trade.  He  married  Miriam, 
daughter  of  Col.  Moses  Titcomb  of  Newbury,  in  1750,  prob- 
ably, and  soon  after  that  date  had  command  of  a  small  vessel, 
in  which  he   made  several  profitable  voyages    to    the  West 

]  For  further  details  relating  to  the  business  career  of  Patrick  Tracy  and  his 
sons  Nathaniel  and  John  Tracy,  see  "  Ould  Newbury  "  :  Historical  and  Biogiaph- 
ical  Sketches,  pages  545-585. 


r.VrKKK    TKACV, 


2 1 8  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  \VB  L  'R  ]  'FOR  T 

Indies  and  Europe.  When  Newburyport  was  incorporated^ 
in  1764,  he  owned  a  dwelling  house  on  "new  lane,"  now 
Middle  street,  Newburyport.  The  children  of  Nicholas  and 
Miriam  (Titcomb)  Tracy,  born  in  Newbury  and  Newbury- 
port, were  as  follows  : — 

Robert,     born  August  28,  1752;  died,  unmarried,  Dec.  16,  1804.' 
Elizabeth,    "     January  13,  1771  ;  died  December  20,  1772. 
Nicholas,     "     July  24,  1773;  died  July  26,  1811.2 

In  1769,  Capt.  Nicholas  Tracy  purchased  one-twentieth 
part  of  the  Upper  Long  wharf,  at  the  foot  of  Queen,  now 
Market  street,  Newburyport,  and  in  1772  and  1784  bought  of 
Tristram  Dalton,  William  Atkins,  John  Tracy  and  others 
their  undivided  interests  in  this  wharf  property,  including  the 
warehouses  and  other  buildings  thereon. 

He  died  May  23,  1787,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill 
burying  ground.  Three  years  previous  to  that  date  he  pur- 
chased a  dwelling"  house  on  the  northwesterly  corner  of  State 
and  High  streets,  which  he  owned  and  occupied  at  the  time 
of  his  death. 3 

His  will,  dated  January  17,  1787,  and  proved  June  13,. 
1787,  provided  for  the  settlement  of  his  real  and  personal 
estate,  as  follows  :•♦  One-third  to  his  wife  Miriam  ;  the  use 
and  occupation  of  a  dwelling  house  on  the  northwesterly  side 
of  Queen,  now  Market,  street,  to  his  son  Robert,  and  the 
rest  and  residue  to  his  son  Nicholas.  The  will  also  provided 
that  in  case  the  said  son  Nicholas  should  die  before  he 
reached  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  the  real  estate  devised 
to  him  should  become  the  property  of  Matthew  and  John 
Tracy,  brothers,  and  Catherine  Devereux,  sister,  of  the  testa- 
tor,  "all  of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland." 

'  Gravestone  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 

-  Gravestone  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  142,  leaf  214. 

■•  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  359,  leaf  1 10. 


MEKC/UXTS,   SEA   CAPTA/XS  AXD  SHIP  OWXERS      219 

In  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  filed  in  the  probate  court  at 
Salem,  Mass,,  arc  the  following  items  : — 

Mansion  House  and  Store,  with  land  on  Fish  street,            .  ^450.0.0 

Dwellino;  House  and  Barn,  with  land  on  Queen  street,         .  260.0.0 

Dwelling  House,  with  land  on  New  Lane  (so  called),           .  300.0.0 

I  8  1-2  rights  in  Queen  Wharf,             .....  450.0.0 

On  a  gravestone  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground  is  the  fol- 
lowing inscription  :  "  Miriam  Tracy,  relict  of  Capt.  Nicholas 
Tracy,  died  October  28,  18 10,  aged  78." 

Nicholas,  son  of  Capt.  Nicholas  and  Miriam  Tracy,  born  in 
Newburyport  July  24,  1773,  married  Lydia  St.  Barbe  of  Mar- 
blehead  March  19,  1795.  Nicholas  and  Lydia  (St.  Barbe) 
Tracy  had  one  son  and  four  daughters,  born  in  Newbury- 
port, as  follows  : — 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  9,   1796;    married,  Nov.  22,  1818,  Charles  Massey 
of  Portland,  Me.:  died  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  June  i,  1851. 
Nicholas,  born  June  19,  1797:  died  April  10,  179S. 

Eleanor  St.  Barbe,  born  June  13,  1799  ;  married  Joseph  Eustis  October 

2,  1820:  died  June  17,  1889. 
Henrietta  Louisa,  born  Sept.  5,  i  802  :  married  George  Brooks  of  Portland, 
Maine,  Nov.  16,  1825;  died  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  March  19,  1878. 
Harriet  Maria,  born  July  5,  1805  :  married  John  Adams  Smith  in  Febru- 
ary, 1825  :  he  died  Sept.  27,  1833.     She  then  married  Kev.  John  W. 
Ellingwood  of  Bath,  Maine:  died  in  Portland.   Me.,   Jan.  19,    1879. 

Nicholas,  son  of  Capt.  Nicholas  Tracy,  died  in  Newbury- 
port July  26,  181 1,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 
From  an  inventory  of  his  estate,  filed  in  the  probate  court 
December  5,  181 1,  it  appears  that  he  owned  at  the  time  of 
his  death  a  dwelling  house,  with  the  land  under  and  adjoining 
the  same,  on  the  northwesterly  corner  of  State  and  High 
streets,  valued  at  $4,000  ;  dwelling  house  and  land  on  Middle 
street,  $1,500;  dwelling  house  and  land  on  Market  street,. 
$2,500  ;  wharf,  with  buildings  thereon,  at  the  foot  of  Market 
street,  $8,333  ;  pew  in  St.  Paul's  church,  $80  ;  pew  in  Rev. 
Mr.  Andrews'  meeting-house,   $80  ;  farm   in    Salisbury,  with 


2  2  o  ^IfS  TOR  Y  OF  XE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

buildings  thereon,  $4,500;  and  other  items   of  real  and  per- 
sonal estate.' 

Lydia  (St.  Barbe),  widow  of  Nicholas  Tracy,  died  in  Boston 
December  2,  1832. 

Jonathan  Jackson,  son  of  Edward  and  Dorothy  (Ouincy) 
Jackson,  was  born  in  Boston  June  4,  1743.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1761,  and  soon  after  that  date  accepted  a  position 
as  clerk  with  Capt.  Patrick  Tracy,  who  was  a  large  importer 
of  West  India  goods  and  merchandise  in  Newburyport.  He 
married,  January  3,  1767,  Sarah  Barnard  of  Salem.  She  died 
June  22,  1770  -^  and  he  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Captain  Tracy. ^  In  1771,  he  built  and  after- 
ward occupied  the  three-story  dwelling  house  on  High  street 
sold  to  "  Lord  Timothy  Dexter  "  in  1798. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  of  safety,  correspond- 
ence and  inspection,  in  1774  and  1775,"*  and  was  elected  rep- 
resentative to  the  General  Court  in  1776  and  1777.  For 
nearly  twelve  months  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  board 
of  war,  established  by  the  provincial  government  at  Water- 
town,  but  resigned  December  6,  1776,  in  order  to  devote  the 
whole  of  his  time  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  represent- 
ative. May  2,  1782,  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  from  the 
state  of  Massachusetts  to  the  Continental  congress,  then  in 
session  at  Philadelphia,  and  took  his  seat  on  the  third  of  July 
following. 

In  1784,  the  firm  of  Jackson,  Tracy  &  Tracy,  merchants 
and  importers,  became  involved  in  financial  difficulties,  and 
the  senior  partner,  Mr.  Jackson,  went  to  Europe,  hoping  to 
make  a  favorable  settlement  with  creditors  there.  His  efforts, 
however,  were  unsuccessful,  and  in  May,    1785,   he   returned 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  381,  leaf  46S. 

2  See  obituary  notice  in  Essex  Gazette,  June  19-26,  \']']0. 

^  "Married  at  Hampton  Falls  yesterday  se'n  night  [June  2,  1772]  Mr.  Jonathan 
Jackson  of  Newbury  Port,  merchant,  to  Miss  Hannah  Tracey,  only  daughter  of 
Mr.  Patrick  Tracey  of  that  place  (Essex  Gazette,  June  2-9,  1772  (Essex  Insti- 
tute, Salem,  Mass.). 

*  History  of  Newburj-port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  535  and  555. 


MERCHAXrS,   SEA   CAPTAIXS  AXD  SHIP  OWNERS      221 

home,  and  soon  after  removed  his  family  to  Boston. '  Two  or 
three  years  later  he  returned  to  Newburyport  and  occupied  a 
part  of  the  three-story  brick  dwelling  house  on  State  street 
now  known  as  the  Public  Library  building.  He  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  for  the  session  be- 
ginning May  27,  1789,  and  in  1790  was  appointed  one  of  the 
commissioners  to  take  the  census  for  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment. In  May,  1795,  he  sold  his  dwelling  house  on  High 
street  to  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas,  and  again  removed  with  his 
family  to  Boston,  where  he  died  in  March,  1810.- 

Jeremiah  O'Brien  was  captain  of  the  sloop  Unity  when 
she  captured  the  British  armed  cutter  Margaretta,  in  Machias 
harbor,  June  12,  1775.  In  the  month  of  August  following. 
Captain  O'Brien  was  appointed,  by  the  colony  of  Massachu- 
setts Bay,  commander  of  the  sloop  Machias  Liberty  and  the 
schooner  Diligent,  and  provided  with  arms  and  ammunition 
for  the  defence  of  the  sea-coast.  After  a  cruise  of  nearly  six 
months,  he  arrived  in  Newburyport,  and  February  8,  1776, 
was  instructed  by  the  General  Court  to  purchase  additional 
supplies  and  sail  as  soon  as  possible  with  a  full  complement 
of  officers  and  men  on  a  second  cruise.^  He  remained  in  the 
service  of  the  colony  until  September,  1777.  In  1780,  he  was 
master  of  the  ship  Hannibal,  a  privateer,  built  in  Newburyport. 
The  ship  was  captured  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York  by  two 
English  frigates.  The  crew  was  released,  but  Captain  O'Brien 
was  taken  to  England  and  confined  in  Mill  prison.  He  died 
in  Machias,  Maine,  September  5,  18 18,  aged  seventy-four. 

'  "  Monday  last  arrived  here  the  ship  Ceres — Captain  St  Karbe — in  20  days  from 
Cork.  In  her  came  passengers  ihe  Hon.  Jonathan  Jackson  and  Nathaniel  Tracy 
Esquire,  of  this  town  "  (Essex  lournal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  May  18, 
1785). 

-  For  a  more  extended  account  of  Jonathan  Jackson,  see  "  Ould  Newbur)-:" 
Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  564-568;  History  of  Newburjport 
(Currier),  volume  I,  pages  532-535,  564-574,  and  Memoirs  Dr.  James  Jackson, 
pages  26-67. 

•*  Histor)'  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  569-571  and  61 2. 


2  22  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPOR  T 

John,  William  and  Joseph,  brothers  of  Capt.  Jeremiah 
O'Brien,  came  to  Nevvburyport  as  early  as  1778,  and  perhaps 
earlier.  John  O'Brien  was  appointed  captain  of  the  brigantine 
Adventure,  a  letter-of-marque,  owned  by  Caleb  Toppan,  and 
received  his  commission  January  5,  1779.'  On  the  seven- 
teenth of  May  following,  he  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
schooner  Hibernia,  a  privateer  of  about  seventy  tons  regis- 
ter, William  O'Brien,  lieutenant.^  He  sailed  from  Nevvbury- 
port on  the  ninth  of  June,  and  during  the  next  two  or  three 
months  captured  several  prizes,  which  he  sent  into  port. 

He  married,  sometime  during  the  year  1779,  Hannah  Top- 
pan,  and  purchased,  October  23,  1781,  land  on  Water  street^ 
"  partly  bounded  by  an  alley  or  drift  way  laid  down  by  William 
Arnold,"  with  a  dwelling  house  thereon,  previously  occupied 
as  a  post-ofifice.^  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Newbury- 
port  Marine  Society  November  25,  1785. 

Four  sons  and  three  daughters,  children  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Toppan)  O'Brien,  were  born  in  Newburyport,  as  follows:— 

Polly,  born  May  5,   1782. 

Marcy,                   "  March  6,  1784.4 

John,                      "  September  9,  1 786. 

Jeremiah,              "  November  7,  1 790. 

Richard  Morris,  "  Nov.  12,  1792. 

Richard  Morris,  "  March  14,  1795. 

Hannah,                "  September  5,  1 797. 

The  following  advertisement  was  published  in  the  Essex 
Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet  March  28,  1792  : — 

To  be  sold  by  John  O'Brien  in  Newburyport  the  three  story  dwelling^ 
house  in  which  he  Hves  being  in  a  pleasant  situation  and  the  very  centre 
of  business.  Should  it  be  most  agreeable  to  the  Purchaser  he  will  give 
very  long  Credit  to  whom  also  he  wishes  to  sell  his  whole  stock  in  Trade, 
consisting  of  English  and  India  Goods  on  reasonable  terms. 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  641. 
2  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  634. 
^  Essex  Deeds,  book  13S,  leaf  281. 

*  She  married  Rev.  Jeremiah  Chaplin.  He  was  president  of  the  college  in 
Waterville,  Maine,  now  Colby  University. 


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223 


October  8^  J 799-,  Captain  O'Brien  bought  of  Richard  Pike 
about  three  acres  of  land  on  the  southwesterly  side  of  High 
street,  between  Federal  and  Lime  streets,  and  built  the  three- 
story  dwelling  house  that  is  still  standing  there.' 

He  resigned  his  membership  in  the  Newburyport  Marine 
Society  November  27,  18 17,  and  probably  removed  to  Bruns- 
wick, Maine,  soon  after  that  date.  May  19,  1820,  he  sold 
the  house  on  High  street  to  Jacob  Gerrish,  esq.  October  14, 
1843,  it  came  into  the  possession  of  Nathaniel  Hills,  esq., 
and  is  now  the  property  of  his  son,  Dr.  John  M.  Hills  of 
New  York  City.^ 

William  O'Brien  was  lieutenant  of  the  privateer  Hibernia 
when  she  sailed  from  Newburyport  in  June,  1779.  After 
several  successful  cruises  in  that  vessel,  he  married,  April  22, 
1 780,  Lydia  Tappan  of  Newburyport.  At  the  close  of  the 
Revolutioiiary  war  he  found  employment  in  the  merchant  ser- 
vice, and  made  several  voyages  as  captain  of  a  small  schooner 
to  the  West  Indies.  He  was  probably  lost  at  sea,  or  died  in 
a  foreign  port.  His  brother,  John  O'Brien,  was  appointed 
administrator  of  his  estate  March  27,  1786,  and  two  or  three 
months  later  the  judge  of  probate  declared  the  estate  insolvent. 

Joseph  O'Brien  married  Rebecca  Moody  November  7, 
1786,  and  on  the  tenth  of  September,  1789,  he  bought  of 
Edward  Harris  one-undivided-half  of  a  dwelling  house  on  the 
northwesterly  side  of  King,  now  Federal,  street,  with  the 
land  under  and  adjoining  the  same.^ 

Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Moody)  O'Brien  had  six  sons  and 
three  daughters,  born  in  Newburyport,  as  follows : — 

Dennis,  born  August  5,  1787. 

David,       ■'     June  15,  1789;  died  July  17,  1811. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  i66,  leaf  89. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  247,  leaf  170;    and  book  339,  leaf  298. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  150,  leaf  186. 


224 


HISTOR  V  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 


Joseph.  born  July  21,  1791  :  married  Betsey  Bartlett  Mar. 

Mary  Johnson,     "  April  23,  1794  :  died  August  4,  1794. 

Thomas  Moody,  "  November  10,  1795. 

Willia:m  Moody,  "  September  2,  1797  :  died  in  infancy. 

Harriot,  '•  September  4,  1799. 

William  Moody,  •'  May  i,  1802. 

Valeria,  ••  May  10,  1804. 


:,  1819. 


June  20,  1817,   he  purchased  a  three-story  dwelling  house 
on  the  northeasterly  side  of  High  street,  between  Federal  and 


RESIDENCE   OK    JOSEPH    O'BRIEN. 

Lime  streets,  built  probably  by  Samuel  Swett  in  the  year 
1800/  Ln  1822,  or  1823,  Mr.  O'Brien  removed  to  Reading, 
Pennsylvania,  with  his  family,  and  sold  his  house  in  Newbury- 


The  land  on  which  this  house  stands  was  sold  to  Samuel  .Swett  July  3,  1799, 
no  buildings  being  mentioned  (Essex  Deeds,  book  166,  leaf  124).  It  came  into 
the  possession  of  Isaac  Park  of  Boston  September  26,  1814  (Book  of  Executions, 
No.  2,  leaf  96);  and  be  conveyed  the  house  and  land  to  Joseph  O'Brien  June  20, 
1817,  as  stated  above  (Essex  Deeds,  book  214,  leaf  130).  '■ 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTALXS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       225 

])ort  to  Charles  W.  Storey,   who  was  for  more  than  twenty 
years  a  prominent  merchant  in  Havana,  Cuba,' 

Moses  Brown,  son  of  Edward  and  Dorothy  (Pike)  Brown, 
was  born  January  23,  1742,  on  Ring's  island,  in  the  town  of 
Salisbury,  near  the  old  ferry  landing-place,  opposite  the  foot 
of  State  street,  Newburyport. 

When  only  fifteen  years  of  age,  he  was  bound  an  appren- 
tice to  Capt.  William  Cofifin,  and  sailed  with  him,  in  October, 
1757,  in  the  sloop  Swallow,  for  Halifax,  returning  to  New- 
buryport in  the  month  of  November  following.  He  subse- 
quently made  several  voyages  to  the  West  Indies  and  the 
continent  of  Europe.  His  apprenticeship  covered  a  period  of 
six  years,  terminating,  according  to  agreement,  in  June,  1763. 

He  married,  September  6,  1764,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Abigail  (Thomas)  Coffin,  and  sailed,  one  week  later,  in 
the  sloop  Merrimack,  Capt.  William  Friend,  for  Antigua.  In 
1767,  he  was  captain  of  the  schooner  Phoebe,  and  retained 
that  position  for  five  years,  when  he  took  command  of  the 
brig  Martha,  and  sailed  for  St.  Eustatius.  The  homeward 
voyage  was  exceedingly. boisterous,  the  vessel  sprang  a  leak 
and  was  abandoned  at  sea.  The  officers  and  crew,  rescued 
by  the  schooner  Polly,  were  landed  at  Santa  Cruz.  Captain 
Brown  arrived  home  January  2,  1774,  after  an  absence  of 
fifteen  months. 

The  memorable  and  interesting  incidents  connected  with 
his  career  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  his  service  as  com- 
mander of  the  sloop-of-war  Merrimack,  built  in  Newburyport 
in  1798,  have  been  described  elsewhere,  and  need  not  be 
reprinted  here.- 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  232,  leaf  244.  Mr.  Storey  died  in  Havana  January  8, 
1S45,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  I lill  cemeter)',  Newburyport.  His  daughter,  Lydia 
M.  Storey,  having  come  into  possession  of  the  property  by  inheritance  and  purchase, 
conveyed  it,  May  8,  1892,  to  Nathaniel  N.  Jones,  esq.,  who  sold  it  in  November, 
1908,  to  Mrs.  Clara  Erskine  (Clement)  Waters,  the  present  owner  and  occupant. 

2  Biographical  Sketch,  by  Samuel  Swett  (1846);  History  of  Newbur>'port  (Mrs. 
E.  Vale  Smith),  pages  110-114,  and  352-356  ;  Moses  Brown,  Captain,  U.  S.  A. 
(Edgar  Stanton  Maclay);  History-  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages 
II2-114,  611-614,  and  630-633. 


2  26  filS TOR  Y  OF  NE  \VB  UR  }  'FOR  T 

At  the  close  of  the  war  between  France  and  England,  in 
1 80 1,  Captain  Brown  was  honorably  discharged  from  the 
United  States  navy.  He  soon  found  employment,  however, 
in  a  merchant  vessel,  and  made  several  voyages  from  New- 
buryport  to  the  West  Indies.  Returning  from  Guadaloupe, 
he  died  of  apoplexy  January  i,  1804,  and  was  buried  at  sea. 
His  widow,  Sarah  (Coffin)  Brown,  died  November  19,  1808. 

Capt.  Moses  and  Sarah  (Coffin)  Brown  had  the  following- 
named  children : — 


Susanna,  bom  July  27,  1765  :  died  August  8,  1765. 

Moses,         ••     January  20,  1766;  died  Sept.  8,  1768. 

William,      '•     Feb.  23,  1768  ;  married  Catherine  Jones  ;  lost  at  sea,  1799. 

Moses,         •'      Mar.  22,  i  770  :  married  Eunice  Stickney  ;  lost  at  sea,  1819. 

Edward,     ••      August  2,  1772  ;  died  in  1780. 

Joseph,        '■      Nov.  17,  1774;  married,  first,  Mary  Pillsbury  : 

second,  Sarah  Hoitt  ;  died  Oct.  10,  1845. 
James,        '•     October  30,  1777  ;  died  July  22,  1858. 
Sarah,         ■•     May  26,  i  78 1  ;  married  James  Reed  ;  died  Jan.  1 3.  1 840. 

Three  great-grandsons  of  Capt.  Moses  and  Sarah  (Coffin) 
Brown  are  now  living,  namely,  Ex-Mayor  Moses  Brown  of 
Newburyport,  Causten  Brown,  esq.,  of  Boston  and  George 
Brown  of  Bangor,  Me. 


Moses  Brown,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Pearson)  Brown, 
was  born  October  2,  1742,  in  that  part  of  Newbury  after- 
wards set  off  and  incorporated  by  the  name  of  West  Newbury. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  a  chaise-maker,  and  when  only 
twenty-one  years  of  age  began  the  manufacture  of  carriages 
in  Newburyport.  Ten  years  later,  he  turned  his  attention  to 
the  importation  of  sugar  and  molasses,  which  he  sold  to  whole- 
sale dealers  at  a  good  profit. 

In  1772,  he  married  Mary  Hall  of  Newburyport,  and  lived 
for  nearly  twenty  years  after  that  date  in  a  house  then  stand- 
ing on  State  street,  where  the  Merchants  Bank  building  now 


MFRC/IAXTS,   SEA   CAPTAINS  AXD  SHIP  OU'XERS      227 


Stands.  His  wife  died  June  28,  1778,  leaving  no  children, 
and  he  married,  October  i,  1786,  Mary  White  of  Haverhill, 
for  his  second  wife. 

Four  or  five  years  later,  he  purchased  of  Tristram  Dalton 
a  house  on  State  street,  nearly  opposite  Harris  street,  to  which 
he  removed,  and  in  1 792  he  bought  of  Thomas  W.  Hooper  a 
wharf  on  the  northeasterly  side  of  Merrimack  street,  at  the  foot 
of  Green  street,  with  some  land  adjoining,  on  which  he  erected 
several  large  warehouses,  a  distillery,  and  other  buildings 
needed  for  the  storage  of  merchandise  and  the  manufacture 
of  New  England  rum. 

He  accumulated  a  large 
amount  of  property,  and  in  his 
will  gave  to  the  inhabitants 
of  Newburyport  six  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  kept  at  interest 
until  it  amounted  to  the  sum 
of  fifteen  thousand  dollars, 
when  the  income  was  to  be 
devoted  "  to  the  use  and  sup- 
port of  a  grammar  school  in 
said  town  forever."  He  had 
one  daughter,  Mary,  by  his 
second  wife,  who  married 
Hon.  William  B.  Bannister 
November  30,  18 12. 

Mrs.  Mary   (White)   Brown   died   August    11,    182 1, 
husband,  Moses  Brown,  died  February  9,  1827.' 


MOSES   BROWN. 


Her 


EinvAKi)  Wic.glesnnorth,  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Martha 
W'iggles worth,  was  born  in  Ipswich  Januarv  3,  1 741-2.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1761,  and  soon  after  that 
date  came  to  Newburyport,  where  he  was  employed  as  clerk 
by  his  classmate,  Jonathan  Jackson.      Subsequently,   he  had 

'  For  further  details,  see  "  Ould  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketch- 
es, pages  632-637. 


2  28  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 

command  of  a  small  vessel,  owned  by  the  firm   of  Jackson, 
Tracy  &  Tracy,  and  made  several  voyages  to  the  West  Indies. 

January  i8,  1770,  he  married  Bridget  Cogswell,  and  on  the 
fourth  of  November,  1773,  purchased  a  small  lot  of  land  on 
the  southeasterly  corner  of  Fair  and  Temple  streets,  extending 
to  Orange  street,  with  a  dwelling  house  and  barn  thereon.' 

During  the  Revolutionary  war,  he  was  prominent  and 
patriotic,  serving  with  honor  in  the  Continental  army  from 
July,  1776,  until  March  19,  1779,  when  his  resignation  was 
accepted  by  the  commander-in-chief.^ 

He  was  elected  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the 
sessions  beginning  May  29,  1776,  and  May  25,  1785,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  to  present  an  address 
of  welcome  to  Washington  when  he  came  to  Newburyport  in 
October,  1789.  After  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  constitu- 
tion and  the  enactment  of  laws  regulating  the  importation  of 
merchandise,  Stephen  Cross,  who  had  been  collector  of  cus- 
toms, was  succeeded  by  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth,  who  held 
that  office  from  1792  to  1795. 

Owing  to  financial  embarassment,  he  became  involved  in 
litigation  with  the  United  States  government,  and  his  dwelling 
house  and  land  were  taken  on  execution,  November  3,  1796, 
to  satisfy  the  claims  of  his  creditors.  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng, 
who  succeeded  him  as  collector  of  the  port,  conveyed  the 
property  to  David  Coffin  December  14,  1799.^ 

Discouraged  by  these  misfortunes,  Colonel  Wigglesworth 
sought  and  obtained  a  pension  from  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment during  the  administration  of  President  Monroe,  and 
with  the  assistance  of  relatives  and  friends,  managed  to  eke 
out  a  scanty  subsistence  until  his  death,  December  8,  1826. 
He  was  buried  with  military  honors  on  the  twelfth  of  Decem- 
ber following. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  132,  leaf  76;  and  book  139,  leaf  208. 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  581-584, 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  165,  leaf  184.     Abel  Lunt  purchased  the  house  February 

3,  1800  (Essex  Deeds,  book  165,  leaf  217);   and  his  son,  lion.  George  Lunt,  was 

born  there  December  31,  1803. 


MERCHANTS,   SEA   CAPTALXS  AXD  SHIP  OWNERS         229 

Charles  Herbert,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Herbert,  or 
Harbut,  as  the  name  is  spelled  in  the  town  records,  was  born 
in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  November  17,  1757.  When 
only  nineteen  years  of  age  he  shipped  on  board  the  privateer 
brigantine  Dalton  and  sailed  from  Newburyport  November  15, 
1776. 

The  vessel  was  captured  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  December 
following  by  the  English  ship  of  war  Reasonable,  and  taken 
to  Plymouth,  England,  where  her  officers  and  crew  were  con- 
fined in  Mill  prison.  The  trials  and  hardships  that  preceded 
and  followed  this  unfortunate  event  are  described  in  detail  in 
the  diary  of  Charles  Herbert,  published,  with  a  brief  sketch 
of  his  life,  in  a  small  volume  entitled,  "  The  Prisoners  of 
1776:  A  Relic  of  the  Revolution,  by  Rev.  R.  Livesey." 

After  many  disappointments  and  much  suffering,  the  pris- 
oners were  released  in  1779,  and  Charles  Herbert  shipped  on 
board  the  frigate  Alliance,  then  in  command  of  John  Paul 
Jones,  and  sailed  from  Holland  on  a  cruise  through  the  straits 
of  Dover  and  down  the  English  channel  to  Corunna,  in  Spain, 
returning  to  America  in  August,  1780. 

At  that  date  his  father,  John  Harbut,  was  established  in 
business,  as  a  block-maker,  on  the  upper  long  wharf  at  the 
foot  of  Queen,  now  Market,  street,  Newburyport,  and  occu- 
pied a  dwelling  house  on  Bartlett's  lane,  now  Winter  street, 
at  or  near  the  corner  of  Washington  street." 

Having  learned  the  trade  of  a  block-maker,  Charles  Her- 
bert carried  on  the  business,  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and 
continued  to  reside  in  the  old  homestead  on  Bartlett's  lane. 
He  married  Molly  Butler  November  8,  1783,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 3,  1808,  leaving  a  widow,  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
His  gravestone  is  still  standing  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 

William  Farnham,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sibyll  (Angier) 
Farnham,  was  born    in   Newburyport  November   26,    1760. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  96,  leaf  36:  book  103,  leaf  175;  and  book  118,  leaves  130 
and  131. 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  XE  \VB  UR  YPOR  T 


Under  the  command  of  Capt.  Moses  Novvell,  he  marched,  on 
the  nineteenth  of  April,  1775,  to  re-inforce  the  Continental 
troops  at  Lexington  and  Concord.'  A  few  years  later,  he  was 
prominent  in  the  social  life  of  the  town,  and  was  held  in  high 
esteem  by  his  associates.  In  1788,  when  John  Ouincy  Adams 
was  a  student-at-law  in  Newburyport,  he  wrote  in  his  diary 
as  follows  : — 

Every  one,  it  is  said,  possesses  his  peculiar  excellence.  Mr.  Farn- 
ham's  talent  lies  in  the  science  of  politeness.  He  understands  to  per- 
fection all  the  nice  and  subtile  distinctions  between  confidence  and  assur- 
ance, between  ease  of  behavior  and  familiarity,  between  elegance  and 
foppery,  &c.,  a  science  in  which  I  am  very  ignorant,  as  in  all  others. - 

At  that  date,  Mr.  Farnham,  with  ample  means  at  his  com- 
mand, devoted  much  time  to  the  study  of  music  and  English 
literature,  as  well  as  to  the  social  festivities  of  the  day.  He 
married,  October  31,  1790,  Hannah  Bliss  Emerson,  daughter 
of  Rev.  William  Emerson  of  Concord,  Mass.,  and  lived  for 
fifteen  or  twenty  years  in  a  house  on  High  street,  opposite 
Market  street,  which  his  father,  Daniel  Farnham,  built  in 
1750.3 

He  was  for  several  years  head  master  of  the  grammar 
school  at  the  northwesterly  end  of  Frog  pond,  and  was  ap- 
pointed in  August,  1796,  collector  of  the  taxes  assessed  by 
the  commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  on  the  owners  of  car- 
riages in  Essex  county. ■♦  In  1798,  he  was  collector  of  reve- 
nue, for  the  United  States  government,  in  the  eastern  division 
of  the  same  county,  and  held  the  office  until  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son was  elected  president  in  1801. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Religious  Society  of  New- 
buryport, and  was  elected  deacon  of  the  church  on  the  nine- 
teenth of  March,  1804. 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  540. 

^  Life  in  a  New  England  Town  (Diary  of  John  Quincy  Adams),  page  108. 

•^  This  house  was  removed  to  make  room  for  the  Kelly  School  building,  erected 
in  1872  by  the  city  of  Newburyport  ("Quid  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Bio- 
graphical Sketches,  page  132  j. 

^  Impartial  Herald,  August  9,  1796. 


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A  fine  portrait  of  William  Farnham,  painted  by  Trumbull,  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  Francis  D.  Cobb,  esq., 
of  Barnstable  and  Boston.  With  his  permission,  a  photographic 
copy  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page. 

William  and  Hannah  Bliss  (Emerson)  Farnham  had  chil- 
dren as  follows  : — 

John  Hay,  born  July  22,  1791  ;  graduated  at  Harvard  in   181 1  ;  married 

Evelyn  Leonard  May  3,  1821  :  died  in  Salem,*  Indiana,  July  10,  1833, 

leaving  no  children. 
Mary  Bliss,  born  December  i,  1792  :  died,  unmarried,  February  7,  1816. 
Louisa',  born  June  6,  1794;  married  Rev.  Orville  Dewey;  died  January 

25,  1884.     She  has  three  descendants  living. 
Charlotte,  born  April  15,  1796;  married  George  W.  Leonard   of   Madi 

son,  Indiana  ;  died  in  that  town  in  1862,  leaving  no  children. 
Daniel,  born  Dec.  16,  1797;  died  at  sea  Sept.  8,  1824,  unmarried. 
WiUiam  Emerson,  born  Nov.  25,  1799  ;  lost  at  sea  in  December.  1819. 
Sibyl  Angier,  born  July  8,  1801  ;  married    Allen    Lombard    of  Augusta, 

Maine;  died  June  29.  18S7,  leaving  one  son.  Charles  Lombard,  and 

two  daughters,  Charlotte,  who  married  Bishop  Armitage,  and  Sibyl. 

who  married  Henn,'  P,  Baldwin. 
Phebe  BHss,  born  July  8,  1801  ;  married  Matthew  Cobb  of  Barnstable, 

Mass.:  died  August  30.  1875,  leaving  one  son.  Francis  Davis  Cobb.- 

and  a  daughter,  now  Mrs.  Kathrine  H.  Hay  ward. 
Elizabeth  Cordis,  born  Aug.  17.  1803  :  died,  unmarried.  Sept.  6.  181 9. 
Hannah  Bliss,  born  May  4,  1805  :  died,  unmarried,  October  11,  1806. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Bliss  (Emerson)  Farnham,  wife  of  William 
Farnham,  died  March  27,  1807,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old 
Hill  burying  ground.  In  April,  18 16,  Mr.  Farnham  sold  the 
house  formerly  owned  and  occupied  by  his  father,  Daniel 
Farnham,  to  Dr.  Lawrence  Sprague,^  and  removed  to  Boston, 
and  afterwards  to  Salem,  Indiana,  where  he  died  September 
9,  1829,  at  the  residence  of  his  son,  John  Hay  Farnham. 

'  "  Catherine  Louisa,"  according  to  the  town  records,  but  baptized  "  Louisa  " 
by  the  pastor  of  the  First  Religious  Society  of  Newburj'port,  June  8,  1794. 

-  Francis  Davis  Cobb  married  his  cousin,  Katherine  S.  Dewey.  He  has  two 
sons  and  one  daughter  now  living,  Richard  Cobb,  William  Cobb  and  Louisa 
Farnham  Cobb. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  209,  leaf  118. 


MERCHAXTS,   SEA   CAPTAINS  AXD  SHIP  O IV. VERS        233 

Edmund  Bartlett,  born  March  3,  1723,  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Richard  Bartlett  who  settled  in  Newbury  in  1635/ 
married  Hannah  Hall  October  3,  1745.  Two  or  three  weeks 
previous  to  that  date  he  purchased  one-half  of  a  dwelling 
house  on  "  new  lane,"  in  Newbury,  now  Middle  street,  in 
Newburyport.  The  other  half  of  the  house,  with  land  adjoin- 
ing, was  conveyed  to  him  by  Isaac  Hall,  shipwright,  in  the 
month  of  June  followiug.- 

WiLLiAM  Bartlet,  SOU  of  Edmund  and  Hannah  (Hall) 
Bartlet,  was  born  January  20,  1746-7,  in  the  house  then 
owned  and  occupied  by  his  father,  on  "  new  lane."  Septem- 
ber 14,  1753,  his  mother  died;  and  his  father  married,  Octo- 
ber 2,  1754,  Mary  Marsh  of  Haverhill^  The  children  by  this 
second  marriage  were  Edmund,  Samuel,  David,  Richard, 
Ebenezer  and  Mary. 

In  his  boyhood,  William  Bartlet  attended  one  of  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  the  town  for  two  or  three  years,  and  then 
learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker.  When  only  twenty-one 
years  old  he  was  actively  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account,  and  soon  accumulated  money  enough  to  buy  one- 
undivided-quarter  part  of  a  dwelling  house,  with  one-quarter 
part  of  the  land  under  and  adjoining  the  same,  in  Newbury- 
port. •♦ 

He  probably  married,  in  1774,  Betty  (Coombs)  Lascomb, 
widow  of   Robert  Lascomb. 5      In    1778,    he  bought    of  Mary 

1  "  Ould  Newbury."    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  230-246. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  98,  leaf  18;  and  book  88,  leaf  2:25. 

^  Edmund  Bartlet  died  October  I,  1804.  His  will,  dated  July  29,  1793,  was 
proved  December  6,  1864.  His  widow,  Mary  (Marsh)  Bartlet,  died  May  27, 
1813,  aged  eighty-eight. 

■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  128,  leaf  285. 

'"  No  record  of  his  marriage  in  Newbury  or  in  Newburyport  has  been  found,  and 
therefore  the  maiden-name  of  his  wife  is  somewhat  uncertain.  She  was  probably 
born  in  Newbury  June  8,  1 744,  and  was  probably  the  oldest  daughter  of  Philip 
and  Lydia  Coombs.  In  the  division  of  her  father's  estate,  August  16,  1762,  she 
received  twenty  pounds  from  William  Coombs,  her;  oldest-  brother,  for  her  undivi- 
ded interest  in  the  land  and  dwelling  house  belonging  to  the  estate.     She  probably 


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HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 


Gwyn  land  on  King,  now  Federal,  street,  Newburyport,'  and 
in  1784,  Alice  Hughes,  of  the  town  of  Swansea,  in  the  county 
of  Glamorgan,  in  the  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain,  "only  sister 
and  next-of-kin  to  Anthony  Gwyn,  deceased,  and  also  mother 
and  next  of  kin  to  David  Jones  of  Newburyport,  deceased," 
conveyed  to  William  Bartlett  all  her  right,  title  and  interest  in 
the  land  "  now  in  the  possession  of  the  said  Bartlet,  on  which 
he  now  dwelleth,"  it  being  the  same  lot  oi  land  which  Samuel 
Swasey  sold  to  David  Jones  June  21,  1771.' 

At  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war  Mr.  Bartlet  became 
interested  in  commercial  affairs,  and  soon  afterward  was  the 
owner  of  a  large  fleet  of  vessels  which  were  constantly  em- 
ployed in  trade  with  the  East  and  West  Indies,  England,. 
Holland  and  Russia. 

In  1787,  he  purchased  of  Stephen  Cross  "one  undivided 
fourth  part  of  the  flatts  granted  by  the  town  of  Newbury  ta 
William  Johnson  and  others  to  build  a  wharf  upon  at  the 
lower  end  of  Chandler's  lane  [now  Federal  street,  Newbury- 
port]," and  subsequently  bought  of  Joseph  Noyes,  William 
Coombs  and  Jonathan  Greenleaf  fourteen-undivided-twenty- 
fourth  parts  of  the  same  property,  on  which  he  erected  large 

married  Robert  Lascomb  in  1763  or  i  765.  He  bought  land  on  a  lane  now  known 
as  Temple  street,  extending  from  King  to  Fish  street,  in  1766  (Essex  Deeds,  book 
121,  leaf  214);  and  died  previous  to  December  19,  1767  (Essex  Deeds,  book  129, 
leaf  258),  leaving  one  daughter,  Mary  Lascomb.  She  married,  March  26,  1792,. 
Israel  Ol  earof  Salem,  mariner.  He  died  in  1795,  ^^^  ^'^  widow  was  appointed 
administratrix  of  his  estate  (Impartial  Herald,  March  31,  1795).  On  the  sixteenth 
of  April  she  married  Ebenezer  Steele  of  Cape  Ann  (Impartial  Herald,  April  17, 
1795).  In  October,  1796,  Mr.  Steele  bought  of  James  Kettle  a  lot  of  land  on 
Orange  street,  Newburyport  (Essex  Deeds,  book  163,  leaf  106),  on  which  he  built 
a  dwelling  house.  In  1798,  he  conveyed  the  property  to  Edmund,  son  of  William 
Bartlet  and  half-brother  to  Mrs.  Steele  (Essex  Deeds,  book  163,  leaf  170;  and  book 
166,  leaf  2).  September  28,  1799,  Edmund  Bartlet  gave  a  deed  of  the  land  on 
Orange  street,  with  the  dwelling  house  thereon,  to  William  Bartlet  (Essex  Deeds, 
book  166,  leaf  73).  April  30,  1799,  William  Bartlet,  merchant,  and  wife  "Betty" 
conveyed  house  and  land  on  Temple  street  to  Mary,  wife  of  Ebenezer  Steele  (Es- 
sex Deeds,  book  165,  leaf  102). 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  136,  leaf  167. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  1  ook  141,  leaf  219. 


MERCI/AXTS,   SEA   CAPTAINS  AXD  SHIP  OU'XEKS        235 

warehouses  for  the  storage  of  sugar,  molasses,  coffee  and 
hemp.' 

Although  French  privateers  captured  some  of  his  vessels, 
the  losses  he  sustained  did  not  check  his  enterprise,  exhaust 
his  funds  or  shake  his  credit.  In  1794,  he  was  a  stockholder 
in  a  company  organized  to  manufacture  woolen  goods  at  By- 
field,  in  Newbury,  and  afterwards  bought  out  the  original 
stockholders  and  converted  the  factory  into  a  mill  for  the 
manufacture  of  cotton  cloth. ^ 

At  that  date  his  family  consisted  of  himself,  his  wife  and 
four  children,  as  follows  : — 

Edmund,  born  Dec.  i.  1775  :   married  Zilpha  Gerrish  in  October,  1801. 
Betse}-.         ■•     Oct.  23.  1777  :  married  George  Jenkins  March  7,  1799; 

died  October  10,  1810. 
William,      ■•     July  22.  17.S2  :  married  Betsey  Stoodley  June  21,  1808. 
Hannah,      ••     May  17,  1787:  married  John  Porter  Sept.  16,  1811. 

In  1798,  Mr.  Bartlet  purchased  additional  land,  adjoining 
his  lot  on  Federal  street,  extending  to  Beck  street  on  the 
southwest  and  to  Ship  street  on  the  southeast,^  and  erected  a 
three-story  brick  dwelling  house  which  he  owned  and  occupied 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  A  photographic  view  of  this  house 
is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  next  page. 

He  was  elected  representative  to  the  General  (^ourt  for 
the  sessions  beginning  May  28,  1800,  May  27,  1801,  and  May 
26,    1802  ;  and    when    Andover    Theological    Seminary  was 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  148,  leaf  123;  book  158,  leaves  52  and  53;  and  book 
157,  leaf  166. 

■■^  Historj-  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  293-295. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  163,  leaf  171.  Mr.  Bartlet  gave  this  house  and  land,  in 
his  will,  to  his  daughter  Hannah,  wife  of  John  Porter.  The  p  roperty  was  sold  to 
Sewall  B.  Noyes  August  i,  1S74,  and  on  the  twenty-seventh  of  June,  1906,  it 
was  conveyed  by  deed  from  Henry  J.  Noyes,  trustee  under  the  will  of  Sewall  B. 
Noyes,  to  John  J.  Williams,  Roman  Catholic  archbishop  of  Boston,  and  is  now 
occupied  as  a  parochial  residence  by  Rev.  J.  L.  M.  Levesque,  pastor  of  the  church 
of  St.  Aloysius  de  Gonzaga. 


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founded,  in  1808,  he  gave  twenty  thousand  dollars  to  the 
associate  fund,  fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  endowment  of 
a  professorship,  and  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  to  be  used 
in  building  a  chapel  for  Sunday  services  and  dwelling  houses 
for  the  professors. 

When  the  Wessacumcon  Mill  was  built,  on  the  corner  of 


RESIDEN'CE    OF    WILLIAM    BARTLhT. 


Pleasant  and  Inn  streets,  in  1837,  he  was  one  of  the  largest 
stockholders,  and  when  the  second  mill  was  built  on  an  ad- 
joining lot,  in  1840,  he  subscribed  for  five  hundred  additional 
shares,  and  the  name  of  the  corporation  was  changed  to  the 
Bartlet  Steam  Mills  Company. 

His  wife  died  January  24,  1825.  He  died  February  8, 
1 841.  The  inscription  on  the  southeasterly  side  of  his  mon- 
ument, in  Oak  Hill  cemetery,  reads  as  follows  :^ 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       237 

In  jMemory  of 

Hon.  William  Bartlet, 

Who  died 

February  VIII.  MDCCCXLI. 

Aged  XCIII  years. 

Also  of  Betty,  his  wife, 

who  died 

January  XXIV,  MDCCCXXV 

Aged  LXXX. 

On  the  northwesterly  side  of  this  monument  is  the  follow- 
ing inscription  : — 

Descended 

From  the  First  Settlers  of 

Ancient  Newbury 

His  Firmness, 

Decision  of  Character 

And  habits  of  Thought  and  Action 

Exhibited  to  Posterity 

The  Qualities  of 

His  worthy  ancestrj-. 

By  his  Enterprise 

His  native  town 

Was  benefitted  and  improved. 

His  name  was  long  familiar 

Both  in  this  country  and  other  lands 

Asa 

Distinguished    Merchant 

And  a 

Liberal  Patron 

of 

Theological  Learning. 

In  his  will,  dated  February  seventh,  and  proved  February 
16,  1 84 1,  Mr.  Bartlet  gave  his  dwelling  house,  on  the  south- 
easterly side  of  Market  street,  near  Merrimack  street,  to  his 
son  Edmund  ;  a  dwelling  house  on  the  northeasterly  side  of 
Water  street,  near  the  foot  of  Federal  street,  to  his  son  Wil- 
liam ;  and  the  brick  house  on  Federal  street,  in  which  he  lived 
at  the  time   of  his   death,    to   his   daughter    Hannah,   wife  of 


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HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


John  Porter.  He  also  gave  twenty  thousand  dollars  to  each 
of  his  grandchildren  ;  and  to  the  trustees  of  Phillips  Academy 
in  Andover,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Theological  Seminary,  the 
sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  gifts  made 
to  that  institution  in  his  lifetime. 

Edmund  Bartlet,  son  of  William  and  Betty  (Coombs- 
Lascomb)  Bartlet,  was  born  in  Newburyport  December  i,  1775. 
At  an  early  age,  he  became  interested  in  the  improvement  of 
public  property  in  the  vicinity  of  Frog  pond,  and  at  his  sugges- 
tion, and  expense  mainly,  a  deep  ravine  was  filled  with  gravel 
during  the  summer  of  1800,  and  a  broad  walk  made  parallel 
to  High  street,  that  has  since  been  known  as  Bartlet  Mall. 

In  October,  1801,  he  married  Zilpha,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Ruth  Gerrish  of  Newbury,  and  a  few  months  previous  to 
that  date  he  purchased  a  three-story  dwelling  house  on  Broad 
street,'  which  he  occupied  until  1805,  when  he  removed  to  a 
new  brick  house  built  by  his  father,  William  Bartlet,  on  the 
southeasterly  side  of  Market  street,  near  Merrimack  street. 
He  was  engaged  for  many  years  in  the  manufacture  of  woolen 
yarn  and  cotton  batting  in  the  building  now  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  Renton  M.  Perley,  on  the  corner  of  Market  and 
Merrimack  streets. - 

Edmund  and  Zilpha  (Gerrish)  Bartlet  had  seven  children, 
namely  : — 

Betsey,  bom  April  2,  1S02;  died  unmarried. 

Martha  Gerrish,  ••  Jan.  26,  1S04  ;  married  W.  Wheelwright  Feb.  to,  1829. 
Hannah,  ••    Jan.  16,  1S06;  married  Dr.  John  Atkinson  in  1836. 

Maria.  '•      April  27,  iSio;  died   May  12,  1810. 

Catherine  Maria.  ••     May  i,  181 1  ;  married  Dr.  Moses  L.  Atkinson. 
Harriet  Holmes.  ■•     July  24.  1813:  married  Rev.   Frederick  A.    Barton 

of  Collinsville,  Conn.,  Sept.  S.  1840. 
William.  ••     December  ig,  1816:  married  Harriet  Thacher. 

'  This  house  was  Ijuilt  in  1797  l)y  Thomas  Thomas,  esq,,  son  of  Capt.  Thomas 
Thomas,  It  was  purchased  by  the  Anna  Jaques  Hospital  Association  in  18S3,  and 
used  as  a  hospital  from  that  date  until  1904. 

■■^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  i,  page  iSo. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       239 

Mrs.  Zilpha  (Gerrish)  Bartlet  died  November  30,  1849. 
Her  husband,  Edmund  Bartlet,  died  May  9,  1854. 

William,  son  of  William  and  Betty  (Coombs-Lascomb) 
Bartlet,  was  born  in  Newburyport  July  22,  1782.  He  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  college  in  1801,  and  married,  June  21,  1808, 
Betsey  Stoodley  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  His  children  by  this 
marriage  were  born  in  Newburyport  at  the  following-named 
dates  : — 

William  Stoodly,  born  April  8,  1809;  died  in  Chelsea  Dec.  12,  1883. 
Elizabeth,  bom  Jan.  i,  181 1  ;  married  Charles  J.  Brockway  Oct.  29,  1835. 
Margaret  Brierly,  born  August  10,  1812;  died  April  13,  1815. 
Edmund,  born  Jan.  9,  181 5;  married  Louisa  S.  Bartlett  Oct.  29,  1844. 
Margaret  Brierly.  born  in  December,  1816;    married  Albert  Holton. 
Caroline  Hall,  born  Sept.  7,   1818;  married  Dr.  F.  Williams  of  Yonkers, 

New  York,  in  December,  1844. 
Mary  McClintock,  born  August  5,  1S20:  died  January  22,  1909. 
Adelaide  Stoodley,  born  Aug.  10,  1822  :  married  J.  D.  Alden  of  Hartford, 

Connecticut,  in  May,  1844. 
Henry,  born  July  22,  1824;  married  Abbie  W.  Williams  Dec.  15,  1844. 
Nathaniel  Stoodly,  born  Aug.  20,  1825  ;  married  Frances  Ann,  daughter 

of  Richard  M.  Bartlett,  Oct.  29,  1846. 

Mr.  Bartlet  made  several  voyages  to  Europe  and  the  East 
Indies  as  supercargo,  and  afterwards  had  command  of  one  of 
the  ships  owned  by  his  father,  William  Bartlet,  sr.  During 
the  war  of  1812,  he  served  as  orderly  sergeant  in  a  voluntary 
association  of  ship-masters  and  seamen,  called  the  "  Sea 
Fencibles,"  organized  in  Newburyport  for  the  defence  of  the 
seacoast.'  He  lived  in  a  brick  dwelling  house  on  the  north- 
easterly side  of  Water  street,  near  the  foot  of  Federal  street, 
where  his  wife  died  February  8,  1849,  "^^^^  he  died  December 
29,  1852. 

Joseph   M.\rqu.\xd,  son  of  Daniel   and   Mary   Marquand, 
born  in  Newbury  October  16,  1748,  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  6^9. 


240 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


ter  of  William  Coffin,  Nov.  17,  1776.  The  following-named 
children  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Coffin)  Marcjuand  were  born 
in  Newburyport : — 

Rebecca,  born  Aug.  23,  1777  :  died  Jan.  30,  177S. 

Rebecca,  "  December  14,  i  7 7.S. 

Eliza  Coffin,  "  Nov.  3,  1  7.S0  ;  died  Sept.  12,  1781. 

Eliza  Coffin,  "  January  i,  17S2. 

Mary,  "  December  13,  1 783. 

Ann,  •'  October  16,  1785. 

Susanna  Coffin,  "  May  23,  1789. 

Charles,  "  September  23,  1792. 

Joseph,  "  December  25,  1793. 

Mr.  Marc[uand  was  the  owner  or  part  owner  of  a  large 
number  of  privateers.  During  the  first  year  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  they  brought  many  prizes  into  Newburyport ;  but, 
at  a  later  date,  many  of  these  privateers  were  captured  by 
English  cruisers. 

He  lived  in  a  spacious  two-story,  gambrel-roofed  dwelling 
house  on  Water  street,  at  the  head  of  what  is  now  Commer- 
cial wharf.'  John  Ouincy  Adams,  when  a  student-at-law  in 
Newburyport,  in  1788,  was  frequently  entertained  there,  with 
other  distinguished  guest s.- 

He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  to  receive 
James  Monroe,  president  of  the  United  States,  when  he 
visited  Newburyport,  in  July,  181 7,  and  was  collector  of 
customs  from  the  year  181 1  until  his  death,  September  6, 
1820.  A  marble  tablet  marks  his  last  resting-place  in  the 
New  Hill  burying  ground. 

'  This  house  was  probably  built  and  owned  by  Daniel  Marquand.  In  his  will, 
dated  September  i8,  178S,  and  proved  May  2,  1791,  he  gave  to  his  grandchildren, 
"  Rebekah  Marcjuand,  Elizabeth  Coffin  Marquand,  Maiy  Marquand,  and  Anne 
Marquand,  children  of  my  son,  Joseph  Marquand,  all  my  river  lotts  now  improved 
by  my  son,  with  the  dwelling  house,  wharf,  warehouses,  and  all  other  buildings 
thereon,  also  one  half  part  of  my  other  estate  wherever  the  same  may  be."  This 
house,  with  llic  warehouses  and  other  buildings,  was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  of 
1811. 

-  Life  in  a  New  England  Town,  pages  102  and  157. 


MEKCIIAXTS,   SEA   CAPTAIXS  AXD  SHIP  QlWXKRS      241 

Thomas  Johnson,  as  early  as  1695,  built  a  dwelling  house 
on  land  belonging  to  the  town  of  Newbury,  near  the  foot  of 
Chandler's  lane,  now  Federal  street,  in  Newburyport,  and  had 
a  ship-yard  there,  for  which  he  paid  an  annual  rent  to  the 
selectmen  of  the  town.' 

Wn.i.iAM  Johnson,  probably  a  brother  of  Thomas  John- 
son, came  from  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1698,  to  Newbury, 
and  began  ship-building  at  or  near  the  same  place.-  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Capt.  Daniel  Pierce,  November 
9,  1702.  The  children  by  this  marriage  were  born  at  the 
following-named  dates  : — 

Elizabeth,  born  August  17,  1703  :   married  Isaac  Hall  Nov.  23,  1721. 

Martha,  •'  November  1 7,  1704. 

William,  "  May  13,  1706;   married  Betty  Bradstreet. 

Sarah,  "  in  1707:  married  Ralph  Cross  October  31,   172S. 

Mary,  "  Sept.  14,  i  70S  ;   married  John  Currier  Jan.  23.  172.S-9. 

Isaac,  "  in  1710:  married  Martha  Greenleaf  May  10,  1733. 

Moses,  "  August  i,  1711  :  died  young. 

Nicholas,  "  March  9,  1714:   married  Sarah  Huse  March  23,  1737. 

Lydia,  •'  in  1716:   married   Philip  Coombs  July  10,  1735. 

Eleazer,  "  May  11,  171N:  married  Elizabeth  Toppan  Aug.  18,1741. 

Martha  (Pierce)  Johnson  died  August  3,  1732  ;  and  her 
husband,  William  Johnson,  married,  February  14,  1733-4, 
Mrs.  Abigail  (Moody)  Stickney,  widow,  first  of  Josiah  Em- 
ery, and  subsequently  of  Jonathan  Stickney.  Three  children 
of  William  and  Abigail  (Stickney)  Johnson  were  born  in 
Newburyport  at  the  following-named  dates  : — 

Joseph,  born  November  20,  1734. 
Moses,      •'     June  2,  1 737. 
Abigail,    "      February  6,  i  73S. 

Eleazer  John.son,  ])()rn  May  11,  i7i<S,  son  of  William  and 
Martha  (Pierce)  Johnson,  married  Elizabeth  Toppan  Atigust 
18,  1 74 1,  as  stated  above. 

His  children  by  this  marriage  were  born  in  Newi)uryi)ort 
at  the  following-named  dates  : — 

'  History  of  Xt-wbury  (Currier),  pa<5f  479. 
-  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  480. 


242  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  VPOR  T 

Joseph,  born  November  28,  i  743  ;  married  Elizabeth  Dole. 
William  Pierce,  born  April  22,  i  745  :  married  Sarah  Greenleaf. 
Eleazer,  bom  February  14,  1746;  married  Hannah  Pearson. 
Sarah,  born  November  7,  1748  ;  married   Phineas  Parker. 
Jane,  born  July  7,  1750  ;  married  Nathaniel  Newell. 
Nicholas,  bom  in  1752  ;  married  Mary  Perkins. 
Martha,  bom  in  1754;  married  John  Desannette. 
Philip,  born  in  1756;  married,  first,  Dolly  Noyes  ;  and,  second, 

Sarah  Noyes  ;  d.  in  1789. 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1758  :  probably  died  in  infancy. 

Elizabeth  Toppan,  wife  of  Eleazer  Johnson,  died  October 
20,  1761  ;  and  he  married,  in  1766,  his  second  wife,  Sarah 
Bayley,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  John  Bayley  Johnson,  born 
January  26,  1768. 

Eleazer  Johnson  was  one  of  the  prominent  ship-builders  in 
Newburyport  previous  to  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  occu- 
pied a  part  of  the  ship-yard  owned  by  his  father,  William 
Johnson,  and  lived  in  a  dwelling  house  near  the  corner  of 
Federal  and  Water  streets,  where  he  died  May  12,  1792. 

William  Pierce  Johnson,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Elizabeth 
(Toppan)  Johnson,  born  April  22,  1745,  was  a  successful 
ship-master,  and  also  the  owner  of  a  large  number  of  vessels 
engaged  in  the  W'est  India  trade.  He  married,  October  23, 
1770,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Hon.  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Presbury)  Greenleaf.  The  following-named  children  by  this 
marriage  were  born  in  Newburyport  : — 

Mary,  born  April  25,  1777  ;  died  January  19,  i860. 
Catharine,  born  January  4,  17S0  ;  died  April  27,  1859. 
William  Pierce,  born  May  13,  1785  ;  married,  first,  Henrietta  Tracy; 

and,  second,  Sarah  Waite. 
Sarah,  born  in  1788  ;  died  in  1791. 
Eleazer,  born  Nov.  12,  1790;  married  Fanny  Toppan  Oct.  i,  181 1  ; 

died  P'ebruary  27,  1870." 
Jonathan  Greenleaf,  born  Nov  12,  1790  ;  married  Elizabeth  White 

in  1813.- 

'  Eleazer  Johnson  was  town  clerk  for  twenty  years,  and  afterwards  clerk  of  the 
city  of  Newburyport  for  nineteen  years. 

'■^  [onathan  Greenleaf  Johnson,  a  twin-brother  of  Eleazer  Johnson,  was  for  many 
years  a  prominent  physician  in  Newburyport. 


MEKCHANrS,   SEA   CAPTAINS  A XD  SHIP  OU'XERS      243 


Capt.  William  Pierce  Johnson  built,  in  1798,  the  wharf  at 
the  foot  of  Pudding  lane,  now  Ship  street,  Newburyport.  He 
died,  \'ery  sudden!)-,  June  4,  1802. 

Philip  Johnson,  son 
of  Eleazer  and  Eliza- 
beth (Toppan)  John- 
son, born  in  1756,  was  a 
soldier  in  Capt.  Moses 
Nowell's  company,  and 


SILVER  taxkakd;   side  view. 

marched  from  Newburyport, 
April  19,  1775,  to  re-in force  the 
Continental  troops  at  Lexington 
and  Concord.  He  was  afterward 
in  Capt.  Benjamin  Perkins'  com- 
pany, and  was  severely  wounded 
at   the   battle   of    Bunker    Hill. 

He  subsequently  learned  the  trade  of  a  ship-carpenter,  and 
built  a  large  number  of  vessels  in  the  ship-yard  previously 
occupied  by  his  father  and  grandfather.  In  1795,  he  was 
presented  with  a  silver  tankard,  made  by  "  Revere,"  probably 


SI[.\EK    TA.NKAKH:     IKON  I     VIEW. 


244 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  7 


son  of  Paul  Revere,  bearing"  the  following"  inscription,  as  shown 
in  the  half-tone  prints  on  the  preceding  page : — ' 

Presented  by  Head  &  Amory  to  Mr.  Philip  Johnson  as  a  token  of 
their  respect  for  his  fidelity  in  building  the  ship  Romona,  I79';- 

Patrick  Tracy  Jackson,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah 
(Tracy)  Jackson,  was  born  in  Newburyport  August  14,  1780. 
When  ten  years  of  age  he  attended  the  grammar  school  at 
the  northwesterly  end  of  Frog  pond,  and  a  few  years  later 
coi"npleted  his  education  at  Dummer  academy.  In  1796,  he 
was  bound  by  a  written  contract  to  serve  for  five  years  in  the 
store  of  William  Bartlet,  attending  to  the  sale  of  foreign 
goods  and  merchandise.  Several  months  previous  to  the  ter- 
mination of  his  apprenticeship  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
captain's  clerk  in  a  ship  commanded  by  his  brother,  Henry 
Jackson,  who  was  six  years  older  than  himself.  With  the 
consent  and  approval  of  Mr.  Bartlet,  the  offer  was  accepted, 
and  the  ship  sailed  for  Madras  and  Calcutta. 

When  the  voyage  was  completed,  Patrick  Tracy  Jackson, 
having  learned  the  art  of  navigation,  chartered  a  ship,  ob- 
tained consignments  of  merchandise,  and  sailed  again  for 
Calcutta,  where  he  sold  the  cargo  at  a  fair  profit,  and  with 
the  proceeds  purchased  goods  that  were  afterwards  disposed 
of  to  good  advantage  in  Newburyport  and  Boston.  Owing  to 
some  financial  complications,  the  compensation  he  received  for 
his  services  was  small,  but  he  decided  nevertheless  to  make 
another  voyage,  and  was  absent  four  years,  having  been  de- 
tained twelve  months  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  when  that 
place  was  taken  by  the  English,  in  1806.  Returning  home 
in  1808,  he  established  himself  in  business  in  Boston,  and  in 
181 3  was  associated  with  his  brother-in-law,  Francis  Cabot 
Lowell,  and  Paul  Moody,  a  native  of  Newbury,   in   the   manu- 

'  This  tankard  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Miss  Clara  A.  Johnson,  No.  177  C^en- 
tral  street,  Somerville,  Mass.  She  is  a  great-granddaughter  of  Philip  and  Sarah 
(Noyes)  Johnson,  granddaughter  of  Philip  and  Miriam  (Sargent)  Johnson  and 
daughter  of  Philip  and  Anne  (Adams)  Johnson. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTALVS  AND  SHIP  OUWERS      245 

factnre  of  cotton  cloth  b)-  machinery  in  a  mill  erected  for 
that  purpose  in  Waltham,  Mass. 

In  1821,  in  comi)any  with  Nathan  A]:»pleton,  Kirk  l^oott 
and  a  few  other  ca})italists,  he  purchased  several  hundred 
acres  of  land  adjoining  the  Fawtucket  canal  at  Chelmsford,  on 
the  Merrimack  river,  and  laid  the  foundation  for  the  large 
manufacturing  city  of  Lowell,  named  in  honor  of  Francis 
Cabot  Lowell,  who  died  four  years  previous  to  that  date. 

He  was  afterwards  engaged  in  many  imj^ortant  enterprises, 
and  in  1830  began  the  construction  of  a  railroad  between 
Lowell  and  Boston,  which,  notwithstanding  many  difficulties 
and  discouragements,  was  completed  in  1835.  I'"'  1838,  he 
accepted  the  agency  of  the  company  organized  in  1792  for 
the  construction  of  locks  and  canals  on  the  Merrimack  river, 
and  in  1840  was  appointed  treasurer  and  agent  of  the  Great 
Falls  Manufacturing  Company  at  Somersworth,  N.  H.  He 
died  at  his  summer  residence  in  Beverly,  Mass.,  September  12, 
1847.' 

F^RANCis  Cabot  Lowell,  son  of  John  and  Susan  (Cabot) 
Lowell,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  7,  1775.'  He  grad- 
uated at  Flarvard  college  in  1793  ;  and  married,  October  31, 
1798,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Tracy) 
Jackson.  Fie  became  interested  in  the  East  India  trade,  and 
established  himself  in  business  in  Boston,  where  he  accumu- 
lated a  large  fortune. 

In  18 10  and  18 ir,  while  tra\eling  in  England  and  Scot- 
land, he  carefully  examined  the  methods  adopted  there  for 
the  manufacture  of  cotton  cloth  by  machinery.  Two  or 
three  years  later,  in  company  with  Patrick  Tracy  Jackson, 
Paul  Moody  and  others,  he  erected  a  mill  at  Waltham,  Mass., 
and  supplied  it   with    power   looms,    spindles,   and   other  ma- 

'  Memoir  of  Dr.  lames  Jackson,  by  James  Jackson  Putnam,  AL  D.,  pajijes  I2<S- 
156;  History  of  Newburyport  (Mrs.  E.  \'ale  Smith),  pages  338-351;  Hunt's 
Merchant  Magazine,  1848;    Newburyport  Daily  Herald,  June  10-13,  1848. 

■^  "  ( )ul(l  Newbury;'"    Hisl<jrical  and  P>iographical  Sketches,  page  578. 


246  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 

chinery  necessary  to  convert  raw  cotton  into  finished  cloth/ 
The  mill,  when  completed,  was  successfully  operated,  and  led, 
in  1 82 1,  to  the  building  of  the  city  of  Lowell,  named  in 
honor  of  Francis  Cabot  Lowell,  the  enterprising  merchant  and 
manufacturer,  who  died  in  Boston  August  10,  18 17. 

Thomas  March  Clark,  son  of  Enoch  and  Mary  Clark, 
was  born  in  Greenland,  N.  H.,  March  24,  1771.  When  only 
seventeen  or  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  came  to  Newburyport, 
and,  December  4,  1793,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Alexander 
and  Mary   Caldwell. 

Li  1803,  he  purchased  of  Joshua  Titcomb,  Enoch  Titcomb, 
Samuel  Huse  and  others,  land  on  the  southeasterly  side  of 
Green  street,  between  High  and  Harris  streets,  where  he 
built  a  three-story  dwelling  house,  in  which  he  resided  until 
his  death. - 

He  was  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits,  and  during  the 
war  between  France  and  England  several  small  vessels  in 
which  he  was  interested  were  captured.  \\\  1798,  he  was 
associated  with  William  Cross  in  building  the  ship  Merri- 
mack, which  was  presented  by  the  merchants  of  Newburyport 
to  the  United  States  government,  and  in  1803,  1804,  1808, 
1 83 1,  1832  and  1839,  he  was  elected  and  served  as  repre- 
sentative to  the  General  Court. 

His  wife,  ^lary  (Caldwell)  Clark,  died  June  15,  18 10,  and 
he  married,  May  28,  181 1,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Abraham 
and  Rebecca  Wheelwright,  for  his  second  wife.  The  children 
by  this  second  marriage  were  born  in  Newburyport  at  the 
following-named  dates  : — 

Thomas  March,  bom  July  4,  I1S12  ;  died  September  7,  1903. 

Rufus  Wheehvrit^ht,      "  December  17,  1813;  died  Aug.  9,  18S6. 

Edward  Warren,  ••  October  30,  1S15:  died  Aug.  12,  1837. 

Abraham  Wheelwright,"  Sept.  13,  1817;  died  Dec.  14,  1818. 

George  Henry,  "  Nov.  7,  1819;  died  March  31,  1906. 

Samuel  Adams,  •'  January  27,  1822:  died  Jan.  28,  1875. 

Mary  Rebecca,  ••  August  i,  1825;  died  April  29,  1843. 

'  See  biogra])hical  sketch  of  Patrick  Tracey  lackson  on  page  244. 

-  Essex  Deeds,  hook  171,  leaves  244  and  245  ;   and  book  172,  leaf  167. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS      247 

Mr.  Clark  was  a  prominent  merchant  in  Newburyport  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed 
to  make  arrangements  for  the  reception  of  President  Monroe 
in  18 1 7,  and  for  the  reception  of  General  LaFayette  in  1824. 
He  died  March  31,  1850,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  cem- 
etery, where  his  widow,  Rebecca  (Wheelwright)  Clark,  who 
died  July  27,  1865,  at  the  residence  of  Rev.  Rufus  W.  Clark, 
in  Albany,  N.  V.,  is  also  buried. 

Capt.  William  Nichols,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Nich- 
ols, was  born  in  Newburyport  July  i,  1781.  During  the 
war  between  France  and  England  he  made  several  voyages  to 
the  West  Indies,  and  was  twice  captured  by  French  priva- 
teers, once  in  the  ship  Fox  in  1798,  and  again  in  the  ship 
Rose  in  1799.  He  subsequently  became  part  owner  and 
master  of  the  brig  Sally  Ann.  This  vessel  was  captured  in 
December,  1807,  and  taken  to  Bristol,  England.  She  was 
released,  recaptured,  and  afterward  condemned  and  sold  in 
Amsterdam,  Holland,  as  stated  in  the  following  deposition 
recorded  in  the  registry  of  deeds  at   Salem,  Mass.  : — 

1  William  Nichols  of  NewbuiTport  in  the  County  of  Essex  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  mariner,  testify  and  depose,  that  in  the  month 
of  November  A  D  One  thousand  eight  hundred  and  Seven  I  Sailed 
from  Beverly  in  the  brig  Sally  Ann  belonging  to  Abner  Wood  of  Said 
Newburyport,  and  myself  as  master  of  said  brig,  On  a  voyage  to  Am- 
sterdam: that  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  December  in  16"  W  longitude 
lat  about  49°,  I  was  captured  by  the  Diana  British  Letter  of  Marque, 
and  the  brig  carried  into  Bristol  England  :  I  with  the  rest  of  the  people, 
except  the  mate,  was  taken  out  of  said  brig  on  board  the  Diana,  in 
which  we  arrived  at  Bristol  on  the  twenty  eight  day  of  said  December, 
which  was  three  days  after  the  arrival  of  the  Sally  Ann  at  the  same 
place.  Within  a  few  days  after  my  said  arrival,  the  Sally  Ann  was 
given  up  to  us  by  the  Captors  without  a  trial,  and  we  proceeded  on  or 
about  the  twenty  second  day  of  January  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
eight  on  our  voyage  to  Amsterdam:  having  previously  attempted  it,  but 
being  obliged  to  put  back  on  account  of  contrary  Winds.  When  the 
Sally  Ann  was  given  up  to  us,  we  found  her  entirely  destitute  of  cabin 
Stores,  which  when  she  was  taken  possession  of  by  the  Diana,  consisted 
of  two  thirds  of  a  barrel  of  Sugar,  about  Seventy  pounds  coffee,  about 


248  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPORT 

forty  gallons  of  Wine,  and  Sundry  other  articles  of  less  \'alue  :  about 
two  barrels  of  Ships  provision  were  also  missing ;  Some  of  the  Water 
casks  were  Scuttled,  and  some  of  the  rigging  was  cut  and  destroyed  : 
about  eight  or  nine  days  after  we  left  Bristol  we  arrived  off  the  Texal 
and  were  about  taking  a  pilot  on  board,  when  we  were  captured  by  a 
French  Privateer.  We  were  at  that  time  about  half  a  mile  from  the 
outer  buoy,  and  between  that  and  the  Shore  ;  I  was  taken  out  with  two 
of  my  people  and  put  on  board  the  privateer,  which  proceeded  with  the 
Sally  Ann  to  New  Dieppe,  and  a  few  days  after  her  arrival  there,  took 
out  a  part  of  the  cargo  of  the  Sally  Ann,  which  consisted  of  Sugar, 
coffee,  ginger,  potash,  pearlash  and  logwood,  and  sent  up  the  Same  in 
Lighters  to  Amsterdam :  and  the  brig  with  the  residue  of  her  cargo  fol- 
lowed soon  after  to  Amsterdam:  the  whole  of  said  cargo  was  deposited 
in  the  Government  Stores.  The  Dutch  Admiral  laid  claim  to  the  Sally 
Ann  and  cargo,  as  being  taken  within  the  jurisdiction  of  his  Govern- 
ment ;  I  also  claimed  them  of  the  Captor,  and  took  the  advice  of  the 
house  of  Hope  and  Company  and  Alstorphin  and  Van  Humel,  and  em- 
ployed Counsel  to  assist  me,  but  without  Success.  After  ineffectually 
petitioning  the  King,  on  the  Second  day  of  June  following,  I  Sat  out  for 
Paris,  having  understood  that  the  brigs  papers  had  been  sent  thither, 
where  I  arrived  in  four  days,  and  immediately  employed  De  la  Grange 
as  my  Attorney,  who  laid  before  the  Council  of  Prizes  a  Statement  of 
the  whole  of  the  voyage  of  the  Sally  Ann.  I  remained  in  Paris  until 
the  twelfth  day  of  May,  1809,  using  every  exertion  to  obtain  the  release 
of  the  Sally  Ann,  but  finding  no  prospect  of  her  being  restored  to  us, 
nor  of  her  being  given  up  to  the  Dutch  Government,  and  feeling  confi- 
dent that  she  would  be  condemned,  I  returned  to  Amsterdam,  with  a 
view  of  endeavouring  to  effect  some  compromise  by  which  I  might  have 
some  part  of  the  property.  I  employed  a  merchant  to  sound  the  owner 
and  captain  of  the  Privateer  to  know  what  they  were  disposed  to  do 
with  the  brig  and  cargo.  At  first  they  proposed  to  sell  the  Vessel  and 
cargo  and  allow  the  concerned  one  eight:  but  they  afterwards  proposed 
to  sell  the  Vessel  and  cargo  at  auction  and  to  allow  me  and  the  con- 
cerned one  third  of  the  Nett  proceeds,  the  parties  each  to  pay  their  own 
costs.  This  proposition  was  agreed  to  by  me,  by  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  merchants  above  named  and  of  Van  Baggen  Parker  and  Com- 
panv,  who  were  all  consignees,  and  was  afterwards  carried  into  effect. 
While  the  Sally  Ann  was  in  the  possession  of  the  Captors  at  Amsterdam 
she  was  stripped  of  all  her  running  rigging,  her  standing  rigging,  with 
her  sails  and  cables,  were  cut  and  for  the  most  part  carried  off,  her  boats 
were  lost.  I  went  frequently  on  board,  but  was  ordered  away,  and  not 
suffered  to  take  care  of  anything  belonging  to  her.' 

'  Essex  Deeds,  Book  of  Executions,  No.  i,  pages  254-256. 


ArERCI/ANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       249 

In  addition  to  the  facts  printed  above,  Captain  Nichols 
gave,  in  a  deposition,  signed  in  Newburyport  July  28,  1812, 
and  acknowledged  before  Nicholas  Pike  and  Joseph  Dana, 
justices  of  the  peace,  a  detailed  account  of  his  expenses  in 
England,  France  and  Holland,  with  some  other  items  of  minor 
importance. 

Returning  to  the  United  States  in  18 10,  Captain  Nichols, 
in  command  of  the  brig  Alert,  sailed  for  Bordeaux,  France,  in 
I S 1 1 .  The  vessel  was  captured,  and,  provided  with  a  prize 
crew,  was  ordered  to  proceed  to  Plymouth,  England.  At 
midnight,  the  following  day.  Captain  Nichols  surprised  the 
watch  on  deck,  and  with  the  assistance  of  his  mate  and  two 
boys,  regained  possession  of  the  brig.  A  week  later,  the 
English  frigate  Vestal  captured  the  Alert  and  sent  her  into 
Portsmouth,  England,  where  she  was  condemned  and  sold. 
Captain  Nichols  was  placed  in  confinement,  but  escaped,  and 
returned  to  Boston.  Taking  command  of  the  privateer  De- 
catur, he  sailed  from  Newburyport  August  4,  18 12,  and  dur- 
ing the  next  two  or  three  months  captured  many  valuable 
prizes."  January  17,  18 13,  after  a  desperate  conflict  with  the 
English  frigate  Surprise,  he  was  compelled  to  surrender,  and 
his  vessel  and  crew  were  taken  into  Barbadoes.  Captain 
Nichols  was  sent  to  England,  and  released  several  months 
later. 

In  September,  18 14,  he  sailed  from  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  the 
privateer  Harpy,  and  subsequently  made  several  successful 
cruises  in  that  vessel,  arriving  in  Salem,  Mass.,  at  the  close 
of  the  war  with  a  full  cargo  of  valuable  merchandise  taken 
from  prizes  captured  on  the  high  seas.^ 

He  subsequently  made  many  voyages  to  Amsterdam,  Den- 
mark and  Russia.  In  1 831,  he  purchased  one-half  of  a  dwell- 
ing house  with  the  land   under  and  adjoining  the  same  on 


1  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  651-653. 
-  Newburyport  Herald,  February  10,  1 815;    and  Histor)-  of  Xewburypcjrt  (Cur- 
rier), volume  I.  paj^es  661-664. 


250 


HI  ST  OK  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Harris  street,  Newburyport,  where  he   resided  for  more  than 
thirty  years.' 

In  1845,  he  was  appointed  collector  of  customs  by  Presi- 
dent Polk,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  1849.  He  died 
February  12,  1863,  and  was  buried  in  the  Oak  Hill  cemetery.^ 

MicAjAH  LuNT,  son  of  Abner  and  Miriam  (Coffin)  Lunt, 
was  born  in  Newbury  November  9,  1 764.  When  only  fifteen 
years  of  age,  he  enlisted  in  the  Continental  army,  and  served 
until  January  i,  1779.  Six  months  later,  he  shipped  on  board 
the  privateer  Vengeance,  Thomas  Thomas,  captain,  and 
sailed  from  Newburyport  to  join  the  expedition  to  the  Penob- 
scot. Notwithstanding  the  disastrous  failure  that  followed  this 
attempt  to  dislodge  the  English  forces  at  the  mouth  of  that 
river,  he  returned  to  Newburyport  and  shipped  on  the  armed 
brig  Pallas,  commanded  by  William  Knapp.  The  vessel  was 
captured,  and  the  captain  and  crew  thrown  into  prison,  and 
after  being  detained  there  several  months,  were  exchanged 
and  sent  home.  Re-enlistnig  July  19,  1780,  Mr.  Lunt  served 
in  the  Continental  army  until  December  4,  1780. 

In  July,  1782,  he  sailed  in  the  ship  Intrepid.,  mounting 
twenty  guns,  Moses  Brown,  captain,  for  L'Orient,  France, 
where  a  cargo  of  ammunition  and  other  military  supplies  was 
purchased  and  taken  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  before  the  formal 
treaty  of  peace  between  England  and  the  American  colonies 
was  signed  at  Versailles. ^  After  the  close  of  the  war,  he 
made  several  voyages  to  the  West  Indies,  and  soon  became 
part  owner  and  master  of  a  small  vessel,  and  later  a  promi- 
nent merchant  and  importer  of  foreign  merchandise. 

He  married,  June  11,  1792,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Giddings  of  Ipswich.     She  died  January  5,  1827  ;  and  on  the 

1  See  half-tone  print  on  page  66  of  this  vohune. 

'■^  For  further  details  relating  to  the  life  of  Capt.  William  Nichols,  see  History  of 
Newburyport  (Mrs.  E.  Vale- Smith),  pages  194-197;  Newburyport  Herald,  August 
I  and  2,  1855;  Historical  Collections  of  the  Essex  Institute,  volume  VI,  pages 
229-236;    History  of  Essex  County  (D.  Hamilton  Hurd),  volume  II,  page  1764. 

•^  History  of  Newburyport  (Mrs.  E.  Vale  Smith),  page  1 18. 


MERCHANTS,  SEA   CAPTAINS  AND  SHIP  OWNERS       251 

thirty-first  of  July  following  he  married  Sarah  B.,  daughter 
of  Edmund  Swett,  for  his  second  wife.  For  nearly  forty  years 
he  owned  and  occupied  a  dwelling  house,  built  in  1795  by 
David  Coffin,  on  the  easterly  side  of  High  street,  between 
Lime  and  Parsons  streets.'  He  died  August  30,  1840,  leav- 
ing two  sons  and  four  daughters  by  his  first  marriage,  and  a 
widow  and  one  son  by  his  second  marriage. 

MiCAjAH  LuNT,  son  of  Micajah  and  Sarah  (Giddings) 
Lunt,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  22,  1796.  In  181 3, 
when  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  shipped  on  board  the  brig 
Argus,  a  letter  of  marque,  commanded  by  Capt.  Harry  Par- 
sons, carrying  thirteen  guns,  and  sailed  from  Boston  for 
Nantz,  P'rance,  with  a  cargo  of  merchandise,  capturing  on  the 
homeward  voyage  one  English  ship  and  two  brigs. 

In  181 5,  Captain  Lunt  was  part  owner  and  master  of  the 
brig  Olive,  and  made  several  voyages  to  the  continent  of 
Europe.  Ten  years  later,  he  had  a  counting-room  and  ware- 
houses on  P^erry  wharf,  and  was  the  managing  owner  of  a 
large  number  of  Merrimack-built  ships. 

He  married.  May  29,  1826,  Hannah  Gyles,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Mulliken  of  Newburyport.  She  died  October  8, 
1829,  leaving  no  children.  Captain  Lunt  married,  for  his 
second  wife,  Mary  Johnson,  daughter  of  Edmund  Cofifin  of 
Newbury,  December  13,  183 1. 

In  July,  1838,  he  purchased  a  three-story  framed  dwelling 
house  on  the  corner  of  High  street  and  a  lane  or  way  called 
Brown  street,  which  he  owned  and  occupied  until  his  death.^ 

He  was  vice-president  of  the  Newburyport  Marine  Society 

'  John  Kimball  of  Portland,  Me.,  sold  to  David  Coffin  the  land  on  which  this 
house  stands  February  7,  1795  (Essex  Deeds,  book  159,  leaf  45),  Micajah  Lunt 
purchased  the  property  January'  16,  1801  (Essex  Deeds,  book  169,  leaf  56).  The 
house,  with  the  land  under  and  adjoining  it,  was  sold  by  the  heirs  of  Micajah  Lunt 
to  Lucius  IL  (Ireeley  January  18,  1897  (Essex  Deeds,  book  1504,  pages  250  and 
251). 

-  This  house  was  partly  built  i)y  Enoch  Thurston  in  1805,  and  completed  by 
Edward  St.  Loc  LivernKjre  (see  preceding  pages  60  to  62  inclusive). 


25^ 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


from  November  30,  1837,  to  November  24,  1842,   and   presi- 
dent from  November,  1842,  until  November,  1862.     He  was 

a  large  stockholder  in  the  Bartlet  Steam  Mills,  and  president 

of  the  company  for  twenty 
years.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  Institution  for  Savings 
in  Newburyport  and  Vicinity 
from  1846  to  1855,  president 
of  the  Merchants  Bank  from 
1854  to  1870,  a  director  of 
the  Eastern  Railroad  Com- 
pany for  eight  or  ten  years, 
and  a  member  of  the  state 
senate  for  the  session  begin- 
ning January  5,  1853. 

He  died  January  8,    1874, 
leaving    a    widow,     one     son, 

Edmund  Sydney  Lunt,  and  one  daughter,  Mary  Coffin  Lunt, 

widow  of  the  late  Col.  Edward  O.  Shepard. 

The  above  half-tone  print  is  reproduced  from  a  photograph 

of  Captain  Lunt  taken  a  few  years  previous  to  his  death. 


CAIT.    MICAIAH    I.rXT. 


Capt.  John  Wells,  son  of  Capt.  John  and  Martha  (Smith) 
Wells,  was  born  in  Newburyport  December  18,  1784.  He 
became  interested  in  commercial  affairs,  and  while  in  com- 
mand of  the  brig  Leader,  in  181 2,  was  captured  by  the  Eng- 
lish frigate  Andromache  and  taken  to  England.  At  a  later 
date  he  was  the  owner  of  several  ships,  brigs  and  schooners. 

August  17,  1807,  he  married  Sarah  Newman  of  Portland, 
Maine,  and  was  admitted  to  membership  in  the  Newburyport 
Marine  Society  November  26,  18 19.  Eive  or  six  years 
later,  he  purchased  the  three-story  brick  dwelling  house  on 
the  corner  of  Brown  and  High  streets,  where  he  lived  until 
his  death." 


Essex  Deeds,  book  204.  leaf  T19:    and  look  238,  leaf  47. 


MERCIIAXTS,  SEA   CAPTAIXS  AXD  SHIP  OWXERS      253 

When  the  Merchants  Bank  was  incorporated,  in  March, 
1 83 1,  he  was  elected  president,  and  held  that  office  until 
October,  1832,  when  he  resigned,  and  in  March,  1833,  was 
elected  president  of  the  Ocean  Bank. 

He  died  January  12,  1835,  when  fifty  years  of  age.  His 
widow,  Sarah  (Newman)  Wells  (or  Wills,  as  the  name  is  now 
spelled),  died  September  5,  1875,  aged  eighty-seven. 

Capt.  JoiiN  Newmarch  Gushing,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Hannah  (Hazeltine)  Gushing,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass., 
May  8,  1779.  He  married  Lydia  Dow  April  i,  1799,  and 
removed  to  Newburyport  in  1802,  with  his  wife  and  one  son, 
Galeb  Gushing,  who  was  born  January  17,  1800.  Two  chil- 
dren, born  at  a  later  date,  died  in  infancy,  and  Lydia,  a 
daughter,  born  in  1806,  died  in  185  i. 

Mr.  Gushing  made  several  voyages  to  the  West  India 
islands  at  a  very  early  age,  and  in  1806  was  part  owner  and 
master  of  the  ship  Hesper,  three  hundred  tons  register.  He 
was  an  active  and  successful  shipmaster  until  1815,  when  he 
abandoned  the  sea  and  established  himself  in  business  as  a 
merchant  in  Newburyport.  During  the  next  twenty-five  or 
thirty  years  he  was  the  principal  owner  of  a  large  number  of 
vessels  employed  in  trade  with  Russia,  Holland,  and  other 
countries  in  the  north  of  Europe. 

His  wife,  Lydia  (Dow)  Gushing,  died  November  6,  18 10, 
and  he  married,  January  29,  181 5,  Ehzabeth,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  Johnson,  by  whom  he  had  four  children.  He  died 
in  Newburyport  January-  5,  1849. 

John  Newmarch  Gushinc;,  son  of  John  Newmarch  and 
Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Gushing,  was  born  in  Newburyport  Oc- 
tober 20,  1820.  He  married,  May  16,  1843,  Mary  Lawrence, 
daughter  of  Lawrence  and  Rebekah  Brown. 

For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  imi^ortation  of  salt, 
hemp  and  other  merchandise,  in  company  with  his  brother, 
William  Gushing,  and  his  father,  John  N.  Gushing,  and  from 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IVB  UR  1  'FOR  T 


185  I  to  1 89 1  was  the  managing  owner  of  a  large  number  of 
merchant  ships  built  on  the  Merrimack  river.  He  was  elected 
a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  in  1856,  which 
position  he  held  until  his  death,  July  12,  1904. 

William  Gushing,  son  of  John  Newmarch  and  Elizabeth 
(Johnson)  Gushing,  was  born  in  Newburyport  August  10, 
1823.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  July,  1843,  ^^"'d 
a  few  months  later  went,  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  in  a 
sailing  ship,  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and  thence  to  the  Sandwich 

Islands.  On  his  return  to 
Newburyport  he  was  for  sever- 
al years  engaged  in  business 
with  his  father,  and  afterward, 
for  twenty-five  years,  with  his 
brother,  John  N.  Gushing,  in 
the  importation  of  merchan- 
dise and  the  management  of 
ships  employed  in  the  Euro- 
pean and  East  India  trade. 

He  was  mayor  of  the  city  of 
Newburyport  in  1856,  1857 
and  1858,  and  was  re-elected 
for  the  year  1859,  but  dechned 
to  serve.  He  was  president  of 
the  Ocean  National  Bank 
from  1865  until  the  day  of  his 
death,  and  representative  to  the  General  Gourt  for  the  session 
beginning  January  3,  1872. 

He  married,  Sept.  28,  1847,  Sarah  Moody,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Fanny  (Goolidge)  Stone.  She  died  June  26,  1 863  ; 
and  he  married,  for  his  second  wife.  May  29,  1866,  Ellen  M. 
Holbrook  of  Boston.  At  or  about  that  date,  he  purchased 
the  three-story  frame  dwelling  house,  No.  63  High  street, 
Newburyport,  now  owned  by  the  estate  of  Solomon  Bach- 
man,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  Friday,  October  15,  1875, 


WILLIAM    CUSHINC 


CHAPTER   XXIII. 

LAWYERS    AND    DOCTORS. 

For  nearly  a  century  after  the  settlement  of  the  colony  of 
Massachusetts  Bay  suits-at-law  were  prosecuted  and  defended 
by  men  engaged  in  the  ordinary  business  affairs  of  life.  Law- 
yers were  not  prohibited  from  practising  their  profession,  but 
they  were  looked  upon  with  disfavor.  At  that  date  solicitors 
and  attorneys  were  employed,  in  England,  to  write  deeds  and 
other  legal  papers,  and  l:)arristers  were  allowed  to  plead  in 
the  courts  of  common  pleas  and  at  the  king's  bench. 

Thomas  Lechford,  "  of  Clements  Inne  in  the  county  of 
Middlesex,"  was  probably  the  first  lawyer  who  settled  in  Bos- 
ton. He  came  to  New  England  in  the  summer  of  1638,  but 
was  regarded  with  distrust  by  those  whose  influence  prevailed 
in  church  and  state.  Twelve  months  after  his  arrival  in  the 
colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  he  brought  a  suit  to  recover, 
from  Francis  Doughty  of  Taunton,  property  belonging  to 
William  Cole  and  his  wife  Elizabeth.  His  zeal  for  his  clients 
betrayed  him  into  an  indiscretion  which  subjected  him  to 
censure  at  the  quarterly  court  held  in  Boston  September  3, 
1639. 

Mr.  Thomas  Lechford,  for  going  to  the  Jewry  &  pleading  wt'i  them  out 
ot  Court,  is  debarred  from  pleading  any  mans  cause  hereafter,  unless  his 
owne,  and  admonished  not  to  prfume  to  meddle  beyond  what  hee  shalbee 
called  to  by  the  Courte.' 

In  the  month  of  December  following,  Lechford  humbly 
acknowledged  the  justice  of  the  censure  pronounced  by  the 
court  and  asked  liberty  to  continue  the  practice  of  his  profes- 

'  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  270. 


256 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


sion  under  certain  restrictions/  This  request  was  probably 
granted,  and  he  was  employed  subsequently  in  transcribing 
the  laws  of  New  England,  which  were,  with  some  amend- 
ments, incorporated  in  the  Body  of  Liberties  by  Rev.  Nathan- 
iel Ward. 

He  was  evidently  a  vigorous  defender  of  the  doctrines  of 
the  Church  of  England,  and  frequently  expressed  his  views 
and  opinions  in  language  that  was  severely  criticised  by  the 
elders  of  the  church  in  Boston.  He  was  summoned  to  ap- 
pear at  the  quarterly  court  to  answer  to  certain  charges  grow- 
ing out  of  this  controversy.  Waiving  the  usual  forms  of 
trial,  he  appealed  to  the  mercy  of  the  court,  and  confessed 
that  he  had  spoken  too  freely  of  some  matters  connected 
with  church  government  in  New  England.  The  court  ac- 
cepted his  apology  and  dismissed  the  case,  according  to  the 
following  statement  recorded  December  i,  1640  : — 

Mr.  Thomas  Lechford,  acknowledging  hee  had  overshot  himselfe  tS:  is 
sorry  for  it,  p"mising  to  attend  his  calhng  &  not  to  meddle  wt'i  controver- 
sies, was  dismissed. - 

In  the  month  of  July  following,  Lechford  considered  it 
advisable  to  close  his  office,  settle  his  business  affairs  and 
return  to  England.  He  sailed  from  Boston  August  3,  1641, 
and  in  November  of  that  year  was  busily  engaged  in  his 
chambers  in  Clements  Inn,  London,  preparing  for  the  press  a 
book,  entitled  "  Plaine  Dealing,  or  Newes  from  New  Eng- 
land," which  was  published  in  1642. 

Fifty  years  later,  Benjamin  Lynde,  who  had  graduated  at 
Harvard  college  in  1686,  went  to  London,  studied  law  in  the 
Middle  Temple,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1697.  He  was 
one  of  the  earliest  well-educated  lawyers  in  Massachusetts. 
At  that  date  the  privilege  of  pleading  in  the  lower  courts 
was  granted  to  a  college  graduate  after  a  residence  of  three 

'  Introduction  to  "  Plaine  Dealing,  or  Newes  from  New  England  "  (Boston  edi- 
tion, MDCCCLX\II),  page  XXVII. 

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257 


or  five  years  in  one  of  the  inns  of  court,  but  he  was  not  raised 
to  the  ranks  of  a  barrister  until  he  had  practised  two  years 
in   the  superior  courts. 

Daxiel  Farnham  was  probably  the  first  lawyer  who  set- 
tled in  Newbury,  Mass.  He  was  born  in  York,  Maine,  in 
1 7 19,  and  was  fitted  for  college  by  Rev.  Samuel  Moody.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1739,  and  married,  in  July,  1740, 
Sibyll,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Angier  of  Watertown,  Mass. 
He  read  law  for  two  or  three  years  in  the  ofifice  of  Judge 
Trowbridge,  in  Cambridge.  After  completing  his  studies,  he 
removed  to  Newbury,  and  devoted  himself  to  his  profession. 
He  was  the  only  lawyer  living  east  of  Salem  at  that  date. 

October  1 1,  1749,  he  purchased  a  lot  of  land  in  Newbury, 
on  the  corner  of  the  country  road,  now  High  street,  and  the 
way  to  the  town  common,  now  Auburn  street.'  On  this  lot 
of  land  he  built  a  dwelling  house,  which  stood  a  little  back 
from  the  street,  with  three  large  elm  trees  in  front,  and  a 
garden  in  the  rear  enclosed  by  a  high  brick  wall.^ 

He  soon  became  prominent  in  his  profession,  and  had  a 
large  practice  as  attorney  in  the  court  of  common  pleas  and 
as  barrister-at-law  in  the  court  of  general  sessions.  He  was 
interested  in  public  affairs,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  dis- 
cussion that  preceded  and  followed  the  division  of  the  town 
of  Newbury  and  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport.  The 
first  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  new  town  was  held  at 
ten  o'clock  A.  M.  on  the  eighth  of  February,  1764,  at  the 
court  house  on   State  street.     The   warrant    for   the  meeting 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  102,   leaves  20S  and  277. 

-  The  Kelley  school  house  was  erected  on  the  land  where  this  dwelling  house  once 
stood.     See  "  Ould  Newbur)':"    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  132, 

In  1756,  Mr.  Farnham  owned  several  vacant  lots  of  land  on  the  southwesterly 
side  of  High  street,  near  Kent  street  (Essex  Deeds,  book  102,  leaf  278;  book  106, 
leaf  278;  and  book  116,  leaves  25  and  26).  In  1769,  he  purchased  a  dwelling 
house,  vdth  the  land  under  and  adjoining  the  same,  on  the  southeasterly  corner  of 
High  street  and  Toppan's  lane,  which  remained  in  his  possession  until  his  death 
(  Essex  Deeds,  book  126,  leaf  204). 


258 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  W  B  UR  YPOR  T 


was  addressed  to  "  Daniel  Farnham,  Esq.,  one  of  the  principal 
inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Newbury  Port."  He  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  first  board  of  selectmen  and  representative 
to  the  General  Court  for  the  session  beginning  May  30,  1 764. 
In  the  struggle  for  American  independence  he  was  a  loy- 
alist, and  opposed  the  separation  of  the  colonies  from  the 
mother  country. 

Ardent,  high  spirited  and  impetuous,  he  disdained  to  yield  to  the  sug- 
gestions of  prudence  which  controlled  the  conduct  of  some  of  his  friends, 
and  boldly  denounced  the  leading  Whigs  and  liberty  men  as  law-breakers 
and  rebels.  He  was  too  far  advanced  in  life  when  the  troubles  began  to 
be  in  sympathy  with  those  ideas  and  principles  which,  resulting  in  indepen- 
dence, shaped  the  policy  and  inspired  the  ambition  of  the  radical  whigs.' 

He  was  moderator  of  the  town  meeting  held  March  8, 
1774,  and  at  the  adjourned  meeting  held  three  days  later, 
but  evidently  considered  it  prudent  to  withdraw  from  public 
life  soon  after  that  date. 

A  portrait  of  Daniel  Farnham,  probably  painted  by  Smi- 
bert,  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Charlotte  Louisa  (Lambard) 
Armitage,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Daniel  Farnham,  and 
widow  of  the  Right  Rev.  William  Edmond  Armitage,  late 
bishop  of  Wisconsin.  Several  attempts  to  obtain  a  photo- 
graphic copy  of  this  portrait  for  the  illustration  of  this  sketch 
have  proved  unsuccessful. 

Katharine,  daughter  of  Daniel  Farnham,  who  married  Capt. 
John  Hay,  a  Scotchman,  August  6,  1774,  lived  in  Boston 
after  her  marriage.  Her  portrait,  painted  by  Copley,  now 
in  the  possession  of  Francis  D.  Cobb,  esq.,  of  Barnstable  and 
Boston,  Mass.,  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the 
opposite  page. 

Mr.  Farnham  died  May  18,  1776,  "  after  a  short  sickness, 
in  which  the  symptoms  were  violent  and  the  progress 
irresistibly  rapid."'     Whether  his  death  was  due  to  natural 

'  Manuscript  sketch  of  Daniel  Farnham,  by  Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone, 
2  Manuscript  letter  from  Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer,  son-in-law  of  Daniel  Farnham,  to 
Rev.  Mr.  Weld,  another  son-in-law. 


K.VrilAKlNK    (  FaKMIAM  )    llAV, 


26o  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB UR  YPOR  T 

causes  or  was  hastened  by  the  attacks  of  political  opponents  ; 
whether  he  was  the  victim  of  personal  violence  or  died  of  a 
broken  heart,  has  never  been  determined  beyond  a  reasonable 
doubt. 

He  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground.  The  in- 
scription on  his  tombstone  reads  as  follows  : — 

This  Marble  is  erected  in 
Honour  to  the  memory  of 
Daniel  Farnham,  Esq. 
Barrister-at-Law 
of   Newburyport 
who  died  the  1 8tii  of  May 
1776 
.4£tatis  56 
also  of 
Mrs  Sibyll  Farnham 
The  Venerable  Relict  of 
Daniel  Farnham,  Esq. 
Who  died  13111  of  June,  1797 
^'Etatis  79 
"  For  we  must  needs  die  and  are 
As  water  spilt  on  the  ground 
Which  cannot  be  gathered  up  again." 
II  Sam'  14  :  14. 

The  following-named  children  of  Daniel  and  Sibyll  (An- 
gler) Farnham  were  born  in  Newbury,    now  Newburyport : — - 

Daniel,       born  January  27,  1741  :  died  January  29,  1747. 

William,       "     November  24,  1744;  died  October  30,  1760. 

Sibyll,  "     Nov.  28,  1 746  ;  married  Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer  Nov.  27,  i  766. 

Hannah,       "     Feb.  13,  1748:  married   Rev.  Ezra  Weld  of  Braintree  ; 

died  March  27.  i  778. 
Katharine,    "     April  7,  1751  :  married  Capt.  John   Hay  Aug.  6,    1774; 

died  September  17,  1826. 
Dorothy,       "     June  7,  1753:  married  Dr.  Josiah  Smith'  Oct.  22,  1782  ; 

died  September  14,  1801. 

'  Dr.  Josiah  Smith  married,  for  his  first  wife,  Margaret  Stamford  of  Ipswich 
February  9,  1779.  She  died  in  Newburyport  April  18,  1 781,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Old  Hill  burying  ground. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  261 

Daniel,     bom  July  22,  1755  ;  died  October  26,  1756. 

Samuel,        "     September  12,  1757;  died  October  30,  1757. 

Sarah,  "     July  26,  1759;  ^'^^^  August  28,  1759. 

William,'     "     Nov.  26,  1760;  married  Hannah  B.  Emerson  in  1790. 


John  Lowell,  son  of  Rev,  John  Lowell,  was  born  June 
17,  1743,  in  a  house  then  standing  on  Fish  street,  Newbury, 
now  State  street,  Newburyport.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
college  in  1 760,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  two  years  later. 
He  married,  January  3,  1767,  Sarah  Higginson,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Higginson  of  Salem,  Mass.^  She  died  May  5,  1772, 
in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  her  age,  and  Mr.  Lowell  mar- 
ried, for  his  second  wife,  Susan  Cabot,  daughter  of  Francis 
Cabot,  May  31,  1774.  Just  previous  to  his  second  marriage 
he  built  the  large  three-story  dwelling  house  on  High  street, 
nearly  opposite  the  head  of  Buck  street,  where  he  lived  when 
he  was  elected  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the 
session  beginning  May  29,  1776.''  The  next  year  he  removed 
to  Boston,  and  in  1778  represented  that  town  in  the  legisla- 
ture. He  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention  that  framed  the 
constitution  for  the  state  of  Massachusetts,  in  1780,  and 
representative  to  the  Continental  congress  in  Philadelphia  in 
1782.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  in 
1785,  and  when  the  Federal  government  was  organized,  in 
1 789,  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  United  States  district 
court  for  Massachusetts,  and  was  made  chief -justice  of  the 
new  circuit  court  for  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts 
and  Rhode  Island  in  i8oi.^  He  died  in  Roxbury  May  6, 
1802. 


1  See  preceding  pages  230-232. 

-  At  that  date,  there  were  only  twenty-five  barristers  in  Massachusetts,  and  two 
of  them — Daniel  Farnham  and  John  Lowell — were  in  Newburyport. 

•^  "  Quid  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  577-579; 
History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,   pages  59  and  60. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Gushing),  page  100;  History  of  Newbur)'port  (Mrs. 
E.  Vale  Smith),  pages  330-334. 


262  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 

Theophilus  Parsons  was  born  in  Newbury  February  24, 
1750,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1769,  and  afterward  studied 
law  with  Tlieophilus  Bradbury  in  Fabiiouth,  now  Portland, 
Maine.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1774,  and  opened  a 
law  office  in  Newburyport  in  1777.  He  married  EUzabeth, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Greenleaf,  January  13,  1780; 
and  soon  after  that  date  built  and  occupied  the  three-story 
dwelling-house  on  the  northwesterly  corner  of  Washington 
and  Green  streets.' 

Rufus  King,  John  Ouincy  Adams,  Robert  Treat  Paine, 
Edward  St.  Loe  Livermore  and  others,  afterwards  prominent 
in  public  life,  were  students-at-law  in  his  office.  At  the  close 
of  the  year  1800  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  in  1806  was  ap- 
pointed chief-justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Massachusetts, 
which  office  he  held  until  his  death,  October  30,  1813.^ 

John  Ouincy  Adams,  born  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1767, 
visited  Europe  with  his  father  in  1778,  and  again  in  1780,  re- 
maining there  until  1785.  Returning  to  Massachusetts,  he 
entered  Harvard  college  in  the  autumn  of  that  year,  and 
graduated  in  July,  1787.  In  the  month  of  September  follow- 
ing, he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Parsons  in 
Newburyport.  For  more  than  a  year  he  boarded  in  the  fam- 
ily of  Martha  Leathers,  widow,  in  a  house  then  standing  on 
the  southeasterly  side  of  Market  square.  ^ 

1  The  frame  of  Mr.  Parsons'  dwelling  house  was  raised  in  May,  17SS,  but  the 
land  on  which  it  stood  was  not  conveyed  to  him  by  Benjamin  Greenleaf  until  May 
2,  1789. 

-  For  further  details,  see  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  92- 
10 1,  and  "  Ould  Newbury : "  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  331-338. 

"^  Martha  Mitchell,  daughter  of  John  Mitchell,  shipwright,  married  John  Jones, 
mariner  (see  Essex  Deeds,  book  95,  leaf  231;  and  book  iii,  leaf  229).  On  the 
first  day  of  April,  1765,  she  was  appointed  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  Capt. 
John  Jones,  and  the  next  day  she  married  Joseph  Leathers  of  Newburyport.  At 
that  date  she  owned  the  dwelling  house  and  land  on  the  southeasterly  side  of  Mar- 
ket square,  formerly  the  property  of  her  father,  John  Mitchell.  March  21,  1783, 
the  selectmen  laid  out  a  way,  "beginning  at  the  north  corner  of  Mr.  William 
Jenkins  house,  by  Fish  street,"  thence  running  southeasterly  to    Rogers  street,   so 


LA  II-  YEA'S  .LVD  DO CTOMS  263 

In  a  letter  to  his  mother,  dated  Nevvburyport,  December 
23.  1787,  he  wrote  as  follows  : — - 

I  board  at  Mrs.  Leathers's — a  good  old  woman  ;  who  even  an  hun- 
dred years  ago  would  have  stood  in  no  danger  of  being  hang'd  for  witch- 
craft. She  is,  however,  civil  and  obliging,  and,  what  is  very  much  in  her 
favour,  uncommonly  silent — so  that  if  I  am  deprived  of  the  charms,  I 
am  also  free  from  the  impertinence  of  conversation.  There  is  one 
boarder  beside  myself,  a  Dr.  Kilham  (I  hope  the  name  will  not  scare 
you),  one  of  the  representatives  from  this  town,  a  very  worthy  man;  and 
a  man  of  sense  and  learning.  Was  it  not  for  him,  I  should  be  at  my 
lodgings  as  solitary  as  an  hermit.  'J'here  is  very  agreeable  society  in 
the  town  :  though  I  seldom  go  into  company. 

At  a  later  date,  he  evidently  became  more  intimately  ac- 
quainted with  the  beaux  and  belles  of  the  town,  and  devoted 
considerable  time  to  dinner  and  card  parties  and  other  social 
entertainments.  For  his  own  edification  and  the  amusement 
of  his  intimate  friends,  he  wrote  a  poem  entitled  "  A  Vision," 
in  which  he  criticised  the  airs,  graces  and  follies  of  some  of 
the  young  ladies  then  prominent  in  society.'  Under  the  date 
of  January  24,  1788,  he  wrote  in  his  diary  as  follows  : — 

I  began  yesterday  upon  another  attempt  to  ascend  Parnassus:  and 
this  time  I  am  determined  to  take  it  leisurely.  I  have  frequentlv  made 
a  trial  of  my  strength  in  this  way  :  Ijut    mv    patience    has    alwaj's    been 

called,  and  thence  in  a  northwesterly  direction  "  to  the  west  corner  of  Mrs.  Leath- 
ers house"  (Town  of  Newburyport  (Selectmen's)  records).  May  30,  1785, 
Martha  Leathers,  widow,  was  appointed  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  her  hus- 
band. Joseph  Leathers,  and  when  John  Quincy  Adams  came  to  Newbur}'port,  in 
1787.  sht'  furnished  him  with  lioard  and  Judging.  She  probably  retained  posses- 
sion of  the  house  that  she  occupied  at  that  date  until  Februar)'3,  1795  (Essex 
Deeds,  book  164,  leaf  14).  She  (bed  January  jq,  1798,  aged  seventy-one,  and 
was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard.  Iler  will,  dated  May  27,  1795,  and  proved 
April  2,  1798,  mentions  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Martin,  widow,  and  an  adopted 
daughter,  Sarah  Leathers. 

The  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette  for  May  9,  1800,  announced  the 
marriage  of  Dr.  Peter  Marchant  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  to  Miss  Sally  Leathers  of 
Newburyport,  on  .Sunday  [May  4,  1800],  the  Right  Rev,  Edward  Bass,  D.  D., 
officiating. 

'  See  Appenilix. 


264  f^I^  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

overcome  after  proceeding  but  little.  I  have,  I  suppose,  begun  an  hun- 
dred times  to  write  poetry.  I  have  tried  every  measure  and  every  kind 
of  strophe,  but  of  the  whole  I  never  tini.shed  but  one  of  any  length,  and 
that  was  in  fact  but  the  work  of  a  day.  It  is  contained  in  a  former  vol- 
ume of  this  Journal.'  I  fear  I  shall  end  this  time  as  I  always  do.  .  .  . 
I  communicated  to  Little-  my  design  of  drawing  a  number  of  female 
characters,  but  I  doubt  whether  it  will  ever  be  anything  more  than  a 
design. 3 

Although  generally  cheerful  and  hopeful,  he  was  sometimes 
despondent  and  discouraged  in  regard  to  his  future  prospects 
in  life.  After  discussing  the  subject  with  a  fellow-student,  he 
wrote  in  his  diary,  May  13,  1788,  as  follows : — 

I  have  two  long  years  yet  before  me,  which  must  be  wholly  employ'd 
in  study,  to  quahfy  myself  for  anything.  I  have  no  fortune  to  expect 
from  any  part,  and  the  profession  is  so  much  crowded  that  I  have  no 
prospect  of  supporting  myself  by  it  for  several  years  after  I  begin. 
These  are  great  causes  of  discouragement :  but  my  only  hope  and  com- 
fort is  that  diligence,  industry,  and  death  may  overcome  them  all.4 

Theophilus  Parsons,  esq.,  was  appointed  by  the  inhabitants 
of  Newburyport  to  prepare  an  address  to  the  president  of  the 
United  States, — George  Washington, — on  his  arrival  at  the 
Tracy  house,  now  the  Public  Library  building,  October  30, 
1789.  It  is  evident,  however,  that  John  Ouincy  Adams  as- 
sisted in  the  preparation  of  this  address  and  in  the  public 
reception  that  followed.  In  a  letter  to  his  mother,  dated 
Newburyport,  December  5,  1789,  he  wrote: — 

I  had  the  honor  of  paying  my  respects  to  the  President  upon  his  ar- 
rival in  this  town,  and  he  did  me  the  honour  to  recollect  that  he  had  seen 
me  a  short  time  before  at  New  York.  I  had  the  honour  of  spending 
part  of  the  evening  in  his  presence  at  Mr.  Jackson's.  I  had  the  honour 
of  breakfasting  in  the  same  room  with  him   the    next    morning    at    Mr. 

'  Written  while  in  Harvard  college. 

-  Dr.  Moses  Little,  son  of  Richard  Little,  born  in  Newbury  July  4.  1766.  He 
was  a  classmate  of  John  Quincy  Adams. 

3  Life  in  a  New  England  Town  (Diary  of  John  Q.  Adams ),  page  88. 
■*  Life  in  a  New  England  Town  (Diary  of  John  Q.  Adams),  page  134. 


LAJVYE/iS  AXD  DOCTORS 


265 


Dalton's.  I  had  the  honour  of  writing;  the  billet  which  the  major  gen- 
eral of  the  county  sent  him  to  inform  him  of  the  military  arrangements 
he  had  made  for  his  reception.  And  I  had  the  honour  of  draughting  an 
address  which,  with  many  alterations  and  additions  (commonly  called 
amendments)  wis  presented  to  him  by  the  town  of  Newbury  Port.' 

Additional  facts  relating  to  the  course  of  study  pursued  in 
Mr.  Parsons'  office,  and  incidents  connected  with  the  social 
life  that  prevailed  in  Newburyport  at  the  close  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  will  be  found  in  Mr.  Adams'  diary,  which  covers  a 
period  of  nearly  three  years,  and  gives  an  interesting  account 
of  man}'  important  local  events. 

September  7,  1833,  Mr.  Adams,  on  his  return  frt)m  a  trip 
to  the  Wliitc  Mountains,  passed  through  Newburyport  and 
stopped  a  few  hours  to  re -visit  the  scenes  of  his  youth.  Many 
inhabitants  of  the  town  improved  the  opportunity  to  call  upon 
him  and  extend  to  him  a  hearty  welcome.- 

He  came  again  to  Newburyport  to  deliver  an  oration  on  the 
fourth  of  July,  1837,  and  on  the  evening  of  that  day  received 
his  friends  and  acquaintances  at  a  public  reception  held  in  the 
town  hall. 3 

Theophilus  Bradbury,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Ann  (Wood- 
man) Bradbury,  was  born  in  Newbury  November  13,  1739  ; 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1757,  and  commenced  the  practice 
of  law  in  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  Maine,  in  1762.  He  re- 
moved to  Newburyport  in  1779,  and  in  1786  purchased  a  lot 
of  land  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  Green  street,  on  which 
he  built  a  dwelling  house  that  he  owned  and  occupied  until 
his  death. 

He  soon  became  prominent  in  public  affairs,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  from  1791  to  1794  in- 
clusive, and  a  representative  to  congress  from  1795    to    1797. 

1  Life  in  a  New  England  'I'own  (Diary  of  John  ( ).  Adams),  paj^e  I  78. 

-  Newbuiyport  Herald,  September  10,  1833. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  418  ami  435. 


2  66  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

He  resigned  his  seat  in  congress,  and  was  appointed   one  of 
the  justices  of  the  supreme  judicial  court  of  Massachusetts. 
He  died  in  Newburyport  September  6,  1803.' 

RuFUS  King,  son  of  Richard  and  Isabella  (Bragdon)  King, 
was  born  in  Scarborough,  Maine,  March  24,  1755,  and  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  in  1777.  He  read  law  with  Theophilus  Par- 
sons, was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1780,  and  opened  an  office 
in  Newburyport.  He  was  elected  representative  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court  in  1783,  1784  and  1785,  and  was  also  a  delegate 
to  the  Continental  congress  at  Trenton  and  to  the  convention 
that  assembled  at  Philadelphia  for  the  purpose  of  framing  a 
constitution  for  the  United  States.  He  removed  to  New 
York  in  1788,  and  was  elected  senator  to  congress  from  that 
state.  Subsequently  he  was  appointed  minister  plenipoten- 
tiary to  the  court  of  St.  James.  He  died  at  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  April  29,  1827. 

George  Bradbury,  son  of  Hon.  Theophilus  and  Sarah 
(Jones)  Bradbury,  was  born  in  P'almouth,  now  Portland, 
Maine,  in  1770.  He  removed  with  his  father  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family  to  Newburyport  in  1779,  and  was  an  attor- 
ney-at-law  in  1 796,  authorized  to  practise  in  the  supreme 
judicial  court  of  Massachusetts.  He  married,  June  15,  1800, 
Mary  Kent  of  Falmouth,  and  was  one  of  the  representatives 
to  the  General  Court  from  Newburyport  in  1801  and  1802. 
He  returned  to  Falmouth  in  1804,  and  was  a  representative 
to  the  General  Court  from  Cumberland  county  for  the  ses- 
sions beginning  in  May,  1806,  and  extending  to  May,  18 13, 
except  for  the  session  beginning  May  30,  18 10.  He  was 
afterward  elected  a  member  of  congress  from  Cumberland 
county,  and  served  for  two  consecutive  terms,  from  May  24, 
18 1 3,  to  March  3,  18 17. 

Thomas  Thomas,  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas  and  Mar- 

'  For  further  details,  see  Chapter  XXIX. 


L.UVYEKS  AXD  DOCTORS  267 

tha,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Newburyport  January  26,  1773.' 
He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1790.  Josiah  Ouincy, 
afterward  mayor  of  Boston,  and  Samuel  C.  Crafts,  governor 
of  Vermont  and  senator  to  congress  from  that  state,  were 
among  his  classmates. 

He  married  Ann  Jenkins  June  4,  1795,  and  was  an  attor- 
ney-at-law  in  Newburyport  from  that  date  until  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  when  he  turned  his  attention  ta 
industrial  enterprises,  and  became  financially  embarrassed 
during  the  war  of  18 12.'  He  removed  to  Vermont,  and 
afterwards  to  the  city  of  New  York,  where  his  wife  died  De- 
cember 18,  1836,  and  he  died  June  18,  1844.  Both  were 
buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  Newburyport. 

Dudley  Atkins  Tync,  son  of  Dudley  and  Sarah  (Kent) 
Atkins,  was  born  in  Newbury  September  3,  1760.  He  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  1781,  and  for  two  or  three  years  after 
that  date  was  tutor  in  a  wealthy  family  in  Virginia.  While 
engaged  in  that  occupation  he  read  law  with  one  of  the  judges 
of  the  supreme  court  of  that  state,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1784.  Returning  to  Massachusetts  the  next  year,  he 
was  appointed,  in  1786,  justice  of  the  peace  for  the  county  of 
Essex. 3  At  or  about  that  date  Mrs.  Sarah  Winslow  of  Tyngs- 
borough,  a  distant  relative,  having  no  children,  offered  to  con- 
vey to  him  a  considerable  part  of  her  estate,  provided  he 
would  take  the    name   of  Tyng,    and  January    16,    1790,   the 

'  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas  was  a  member  of  the  committee  of  safety  in  1774  and 
1775;  captain  of  the  Newburyport  Artilleiy  Company  in  1778;  and  captain  of 
the  privateer  Vengeance  in  1779.  He  married  Martha  Titcomb  September  18, 
1769.  She  died  August  31,  1793;  and  he  died  August  i,  1796.  Both  were  buried 
in  .St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

*  The  following  notice  was  published  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  May  23,  181  =; :  — 

"Thomas  Thomas  late  of  Newburj'port  now  of  Windsor  \'t.  desires  to  make  a 
compromise  with  his  creditors  and  requests  that  all  demands  be  presented  to 

\Vm.  B.  Banister,  his  attorney." 

3  Dudley  Atkins  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  from  178510  1790  inclusive.  See 
Fleet's  Pocket  Almanac  and  Massachusetts  Register. 


2  68  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

General  Court  passed  an  act  authorizing  him  to  change  his 
name  to  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng. 

In  the  month  of  October  following,  he  was  a  delegate  from 
St.  Paul's  church,  Newburyport,  to  a  convention  held  in  Salem 
to  prepare  a  constitution  for  the  government  of  the  Episcopal 
churches  in  Massachusetts.' 

In  1 79 1,  he  opened  an  office  and  began  the  practice  of  law 
in  Newburyport,  but  the  sudden  death  of  Mrs.  Winslow  made 
it  necessary  for  him  to  change  his  plans.  October  i8,  1792, 
he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Stephen  Higginson  of  Cam- 
bridge and  Boston,  and  removed  to  Tyngsborough,  where  the 
real  estate  devised  to  him  was  located,  and  devoted  himself 
to  agricultural  pursuits.  For  three  years  he  had  the  care  and 
management  of  a  thousand  acres  of  land  in  that  town,  but 
the  soil  was  unproductive,  and  he  considered  it  advisable  to 
sell  the  place  and  return  to  Newburyport,  where  he  held  the 
office  of  collector  of  customs  from  1795  to  1803,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  for  the  session  begin- 
ning May  25,  1803. 

Removing  to  Boston  in  1 804,  he  was  for  eighteen  years  the 
official  reporter  of  the  supreme  judicial  court,  and  prepared 
the  decisions  of  the  court  for  publication.  In  1823,  he  re- 
turned to  the  home  of  his  ancestors  in  Newbury,  now  New- 
buryport, where  he  resided  until  his  death,  August  i,  1829. 
He  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

His  oldest  son,  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  jr.,  born  July  12, 
1 798,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  18 16,  was  authorized  by 
the  General  Court,  June  17,  181 7,  to  take  the  name  of  Dud- 
ley Atkins.  Subsequently  he  studied  medicine  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  for  several  years  a  physician  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  April  7,  1845. 

Another  son,  Rev.  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng,  born  March 
I,  1 800,  was  for  many  years  rector  of  St.  George's  (Episco- 
pal) Church,  New  York  City.  He  died  at  Irvington,  N.  Y., 
December  3,  1885. 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  25S-260. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  269 

John  Lowell,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Higginson)  Lowell, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  October  6,  1769.'  He  graduated 
at  Harvard  college  in  1786,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Suffolk  county  in  1790.  He  married,  June  8,  1793,  Rebec- 
ca, daughter  of  John  and  Katherine  (Greene)  Amory  of  Bos- 
ton. For  ten  or  twelve  years  he  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  legal  profession  in  that  city,  but  was  compelled,  on  ac- 
count of  ill  health,  to  seek  rest  and  recreation  on  the  conti- 
nent of  Europe.  He  was  absent  three  years,  but  did  not 
resume  the  practice  of  law  on  his  return  to  Boston  in  1806. 
During  the  war  of  181 2  he  was  an  ardent  Federalist  and 
denounced  the  embargo  with  great  vigor.  His  political 
pamphlets  were  collected  and  re-published  in  two  octavo  vol- 
umes. He  was  deeply  interested  in  agriculture,  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital  Association, 
and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum.  He  died 
suddenly,  in  Boston,  March  12,  1840. 

Charles  Jackson,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Tracy) 
Jackson,  was  born  in  Newburyport  May  31,  1775.  He  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  1793,  read  law  with  Theophilus  Parsons, 
and  after  completing  his  studies  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
the  courts  of  Essex  county,  opening  an  office  in  Newbury- 
port. "  He  quickly  rose  to  the  front  ranks  of  the  bar,  and 
became  second  only  to  his  great  master  in  forensic  distinc- 
tion."- He  removed  to  Boston  in  1803,  and  was  appointed 
one  of  the  justices  of  the  supreme  court  of  Massachusetts  in 
1813.  Owing  to  ill  health,  he  resigned  his  seat  on  the  bench 
in  1823,  and  went  to  England,  where  he  remained  for  ten  or 
twelve  months.  Returning  to  Boston  in  1824,  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  in  1832  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  appointed  to  revise  the  general  statutes  of  the 
commonwealth.     He  died  in  Boston  December  13,  1855. 

'  "  Ould  Xewbury : "   Historical  antl  Biographical  Sketches,   page  578. 
*  Historj'  of  Newburyport  (Gushing),  page  104. 


270  ^^I^  TOR  Y  OF  NE  VVB  UR  YPOR  T 

Thomas  Paine,  son  of  Hon.  Robert  Treat  Paine,  who  was 
an  eminent  lawyer,  and  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  was  born  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  December  9 
1773.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1792,  and  in  1794  began 
the  publication  of  a  semi-weekly  newspaper  in  Boston  called 
"  The  P'ederal  Orrery,"  which  was  discontinued  two  years 
later  for  lack  of  patronage.  Disregarding  the  entreaties  of 
his  father,  he  married,  in  February,  1795,  Miss  Eliza  Baker, 
an  actress.  A  few  months  later  he  published  a  poem  entitled 
*'  The  Invention  of  Letters,"  which  yielded  him  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars,  and  the  next  year  a  poem  called  "  The  Ruling 
Passion,"  for  which  he  received  twelve  hundred  dollars.  In 
1 798,  he  wrote  the  famous  political  song,  "  Adams  and  Lib- 
erty," which  had  a  large  circulation,  and  was  sung  at  all  the 
theatres,  on  public  occasions,  throughout  the  United  States. 
At  the  urgent  solicitation  of  friends,  he  decided  to  turn  his 
attention  to  the  study  of  law,  and  came  to  Newburyport  in 
1798  or  1799,  entering  the  office  of  Theophilus  Parsons.  On 
the  second  of  January,  1800,  he  delivered  a  eulogy  on  the 
life  and  character  of  Washington,  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
meeting-house  on  Federal  street.'  In  the  autumn  of  that 
year  he  returned  to  Boston,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1802.  A  special  act  of  the  General  Court,  passed  March 
8,  1803,  authorized  him  to  take  the  name  of  Robert  Treat 
Paine.  He  had  a  law  office  in  Boston  for  five  or  six  years, 
but  neglected  his  clients,  and  devoted  much  of  his  time  to 
convivial  company  and  dramatic  entertainments.  He  died 
in  that  city,  in  misery  and  destitution,  November  13,  181 1. 

Edward  Little,  son  of  Col.  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Toppan) 
Little,  was  born  in  Newbury  March  12,  1773.  He  graduated 
at  Dartmouth  in  1797,  read  law  with  Theophilus  Parsons, 
opened  an  office  in  Newburyport  in  1801,  removed  to 
Portland  in  181  3,  and  in  1826  to  Danville,  Maine,  where  he 
died  September  21,  1849. 

'  This    eulogy  was  published   in    Newburyport   by    Edmund    M.    Blunt.       See 
History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  494. 


I  Air  VERS  AND  DOCTORS  271 

Edward  St.  Loe  Luermore,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane 
{Browne)  Livermore,  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  April  5, 
1762.  He  read  law  in  the  office  of  Theophilus  Parsons, 
in  Newburyport,  and  in  1783  opened  a  law  office  in  Concord, 
N.  H.,  and  afterward  in  Portsmouth. 

He  removed  to  Newburyport  in  1802,  and  soon  became 
prominent  in  public  affairs.  In  1805  and  1806  he  was  a 
representative  to  the  General  Court,  and  a  member  of  con- 
gress in  1807  and  1809.  At  the  close  ol  his  congressional 
career,  in  March,  181 1,  he  sold  his  dwelling  house  in  New- 
buryport and  removed  to  Boston.' 

Daniel  Appleton  White  was  born  June  7,  1776,  in  that 
part  of  ^lethuen  which  was  subsequently  set  off  and  included 
within  the  present  limits  of  the  city  of  Lawrence.  He  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  1797,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
June,  1804.  A  few  months  later,  he  began  the  practice  of 
law  in  Newburyport.  May  24,  1807,  he  married  Mrs.  Mary 
van  Schalkwyck,  daughter  of  Dr.  Josiah  Wildes  of  Lancaster, 
Mass.  She  died  June  29,  181 1.  The  following-named  chil- 
dren of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Schalkwyck)  W^hite  were  born  in 
Newburyport : — 

Mary  Elizabeth,    born  March  27,  1808;  died  October  8,  1808. 
Elizabeth  Amelia,    "      May  4,  1809. 
Isabella  Hazen,        "      December  12,  18 10. 

P'or  five  years,  beginning  with  May  30,  18 10,  Mr.  White 
was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate.  November  7, 
1 8 14,  he  was  elected  representative  to  congress,  but  resigned, 
before  the  first  meeting  in  May,  181  5,  to  accept  the  office  of 
judge  of  probate  for  Essex  county,  to  which  he  was  appointed 
bv  Caleb  Strong,  governor  of  Massachusetts. 

In  181 7,  he  removed  to  Salem,  where  he  married,  August 
I,  18 19,  Mrs.  Eliza  Wetmore,  daughter  of  W'illiam  Orne  of 
Salem,  by  whom  he  had  one  son.  He  resigned  the  office  of 
jn'obate  judge  July  i,  1853,  and  died  in  Salem  March  30,  1861. 

'  See  Chapter  XXIX. 


272 


ins  TOR  V  OF  NE  \VB  UR  YPOR  T 


Joseph  Dana,  son  of  Rev.  Joseph  and  Mary  (Staniford) 
Dana  was  born  in  Ipswich  June  lo,  1769.  He  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  in  1788  ;  studied  divinity,  and  afterwards  was 
licensed  to  preach.  On  account  of  ill  health,  however,  he 
decided  to  begin  the  practice  of  law,  and  opened  an  office  in 
Newburyport.  He  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  John  Temple, 
May  31,  1805  ;  and  was  a  member  of  the  Essex  Bar  associa- 
tion at  its  organization  in  1806.  His  brother,  Rev.  Daniel 
Dana,  was  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church  and  society 
in  Newburyport  from  1794  to  1820. 

Joseph  Dana  removed  to  Athens,  Ohio,  in  18 17,  and  died 
there  November  18,  1849. 

Ebenezer  Moseley,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Martha  (Strong) 
Moseley,  was  born  in  Windham,  Connecticut,  November  21, 
1 78 1,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1802,  and  read  law  with  Judge 
Chauncey  of  New  Haven,  Judge  Clark  of  Windham,  and 
Judge  Hinckley  of  Northampton.  In  1805  he  came  to 
Newburyport,  opened  a  law  office,  and  soon  had  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice. 

June  17,  1 8 10,  he  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Mary  (Fox)  Oxnard  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  in  18 13  was 
elected  colonel  of  the  sixth  regiment  of  the  Massachusetts 
militia.  During  the  war  between  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain,  from  18 12  to  181 5,  Mr.  Moseley  vigorously  op- 
posed the  national  administration  and  denounced  the  embargo 
as  an  arbitrary  and  unjustifiable  infringement  of  the  consti- 
tional  rights  of  the  citizens  of  Massachusetts.'  He  was  an 
able  and  attractive  public  speaker,  a  prominent  lawyer,  and  a 
representative  to  the  General  Court  from  1 8 1 5  to  1 8 1 9  inclu- 
sive. In  1 82 1  and  1822  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  senate 
and  made  the  address  of  welcome  to  General  LaFayette 
when  he  visited  Newburyport  in  August,  1824. 

Mr.  Moseley  was  one  of  the'presidential  electors  from  the 
state  of  Massachusetts  in  1832,  and  voted  with  his  associates 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  656-65S  and  664-665. 


l-,HhM-,/l-.l<    M()sl-.l.h\'. 


274 


HISTOR  V  OF  NE  WB UR  YPOR  7 


in  the  electoral  college  for  Henry  Clay  in  preference  to  An- 
drew Jackson.  In  1834  and  1835  he  again  represented  the 
citizens  of  Newburyport  at  the  state  house  in  Boston,  and, 
May  26,  1835,  presided  at  the  exercises  held  to  celebrate 
the  two-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  the  town 
of  Newbury. 

He  was  retained  as  counsel  in  many  important  civil  and 
criminal  cases,  and  was  associated  with  Daniel  Webster  in 
the  trial  of  Joseph  Jackraan  for  the  alleged  robbery  of  Maj. 
Elijah  P.  Goodridge  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Essex  Merrimack 
bridge,  in  18 16.'  At  that  date,  or  during  the  next  ten  or 
fifteen  years,  John  Pierpont,  Robert  Cross,  Asa  W.  Wildes, 
Stephen  W.  Marston  and  Robert  Pinckney  Dunlap,  afterward 
governor  of  Maine,  were  students-at-law  in  his  office. 

His  wife,  Mary  Ann  (Oxnard)  Moseley,  died  March  9, 
1840.  He  died  August  28,  1854,  leaving  the  following-named 
children:  Edward  Strong  Moseley,  born  June  22,  1813  ; 
William  Oxnard  Moseley,  born  April  27,  181  5  ;  Lucy  Jones 
Moseley,  born  July  5,  181  7  (married  October  23,  i860,  Rev. 
A.  B.  Muzzey  of  Newburyport),  and  Mary  Ann  Moseley, 
born  October  12,  1824  (married  March  3,  1849,  Oliver 
Hazard  Perry  of  Andover,  Mass.). 

A  portrait  of  Ebenezer  Moseley,  painted  several  years  pre- 
vious to  his  death,  is  in  the  possession  of  his  granddaughter, 
Mrs.  Arthur  C.  Nason.  A  photographic  copy  of  this  portrait, 
loaned  by  his  grandsons,  Charles  W.  and  P"rederick  S.  Mose- 
ley, for  the  illustration  of  this  sketch,  is  reproduced  in  the 
half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page. 

Michael  Hodge,  jr.,  son  of  Michael  and  Sarah  Hodge, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  September  9,  1780.^  He  graduated 
at  Harvard  in  1799,  and  began  the  practice   of  law  in  New- 

'  "  Ould  Newbury:"    Historical  anti  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  228  and  229. 

^  Michael  Hodge,  sr.,  was  naval  ofificer  in  the  custom'  house  at  Newburyport 
from  1776  to  1784,  and  town  clerk  from  1780  to  1790.  He  died  in  Newburyport 
June  24,    18 16. 


LAWYERS  A. YD  DOCTORS  275 

buiyport  three  or  four  years  later.  He  was  interested  in 
Masonry,  and  delivered  an  address  before  St.  Peter's  lodge, 
which  was  printed  in  1802,  and  one  before  the  Merrimack 
Humane  Society,  printed  in  1808. 

He  married  Mary  Johnson,  daughter  of  Capt  Nicholas 
Johnson,  March  21,  1805.  She  died  September  29,  1810; 
and,  in  November,  181 5,  he  removed  to  Plymouth,  Mass., 
where  he  married  Betsey  Hayward  Elliott,  daughter  of  Dr. 
James  Thacher,  and  widow  of  Daniel  Elliott  of  Savannah, 
Georgia.     He  died  in  Plymouth  July  6,  18 16. 

William  Bostwick  Banister,  son  of  Seth  and  Mary 
(Warriner)  Banister,  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Mass.,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1773.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1797;  and 
began  the  practice  of  law  in  Newbury,  Vermont,  in  the  year 
1800.  He  married  Susan,  daughter  of  Capt.  Phineas  Up- 
ham  of  Brookfield,  January  i,  1801  ;  and  removed  to  New- 
buryport,  where  he  opened  a  law  office  on  State  street  in 
1807.  He  was  elected  representative  to  the  General  Court 
for  the  session  beginning  May  30,  18 10,  and  was  re-elected 
for  the  sessions  held  in  181 1,  1812  and  1813.  He  married, 
for  his  second  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Moses  Brown  of  New- 
buryport,  November  30,  181 2;  and,  for  his  third  wife, 
Zilpah  Polly,  daughter  of  Joel  Grant  of  Norfolk,  Connecticut, 
September  7,  1841.     He  died  in  Newburyport  July  i,  1853. 

Samuel  Lorenzo  Knapp,  son  of  Isaac  and  Susanna  (New- 
man) Knapp,  was  born  in  Newburyport  January  19,  1783. 
He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1804,  read  law  with  Theophi- 
lus  Parsons,  opened  an  ofifice  in  Newburyport  in  1 809,  and 
five  years  later  married  Mary  Ann  Davis  of  Boston.' 

Having  been  elected  representative  to  the  General  Court 
for  the  session  beginning  May  27,  1812,  he  served  in  that 
capacity  until  the   close  of  the   year    18 16,   when,  becoming 

'  Intention  of  marriage  filed  with  the  town  elerk  of  Newburyport  June  18,  1814. 


276  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

financially  embarassed,  he  was  imprisoned  for  debt.  While 
confined  in  the  Nevvburyport  jail  he  wrote  "  Extracts  from 
the  Journal  of  Marshall  Soult.'" 

In  1 8 1 7,  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  was  associated  with 
Daniel  Webster  as  counsel  for  Levi  and  Laban  Kenniston, 
who  were  arrested,  tried  and  acquitted,  in  April  of  that  year, 
for  the  alleged  robbery  of  Elijah  Putnam  Goodridge,  at  or  near 
the  Essex-Merrimack  bridge,  in  Newburyport. 

Although  fairly  successful  in  his  profession,  he  decided  a 
few  years  later  to  devote  his  time  and  attention  to  literary 
work.  In  1824,  he  was  a  regular  contributor  to  the  Boston 
Galaxy  and  Commercial  Advertiser  ;  in  1825,  editor  and 
proprietor  of  the  Boston  Monthly  Magazine ;  and  afterwards 
editor  of  the  National  Journal  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  of 
the  Commercial  Advertiser  in  New  York  City. 

He  published  during  his  life  orations,  biographies  and  mis- 
cellaneous sketches  with  titles  as  follows  : — 

Oration  delivered  in  the  meeting  house  of  the  First  Rehgious  Society  of 
Newburj'port,  July  4,  1810. 

Oration  before  St.  Peter's  and  St.  Mark's  lodges,  Newburyport,  on  the 
festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  in  181 1. 

Oration  before  the  Merrimack  Humane  Society,  September  3,  181 1. 

Oration  before  the  Associated  Disciples  of  Washington,  February  -2, 
1812. 

Travels  of  Ali  Bey  in  Morocco,  Tripoli,  Cyprus,  Egypt,  Arabia,  Syria, 
and  Turkey,  written  by  himself,  two  volumes,  published  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1 81 5. 

Extracts  from  the  Journal  of  Marshall  Soult,  published  in  Newburyport 
in  1817. 

Obituary  notice  of  Rev.  Francis  Anthony  Matignon,  first  published  in 
the  New  England  Galaxy,  September  25,  181 8,  and  afterwards  re- 
printed and  published  in  pamphlet  form. 

Eulogy  on  the  character  of  Shubael  Bell,  Esq.,  delivered  in  Christ 
Church,  Boston,  at  the  request  of  St.  John's  lodge,  in  i8ig. 

Sketches  of  eminent  lawyers,  statesmen,  and  men  of  letters,  in  1821. 

^  Histoiy  of  Newbuiyport  (Mrs.  E.  Vale  Smith),   page   327;    History  of  New- 
buryport (Currier),  volume  I,  page  498. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  277 

Memoirs  of  General  Lafayette,  in  1824. 

Oration  before  the  Society  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, August  19,  1824. 

Discourse  on  the  life  and  character  of  DeWitt  Clinton,  in  1828. 

Address  delivered  before  the  New  England  Society,  in  1829. 

Lectures  on  American  Literature,  with  remarks  on  some  passages  of 
American  history,  in  1 829. 

Sketches  of  Public  Characters,  by  Ignatius  Loyola  Robertson,  a  resident 
of  the  United  States,  in  1830. 

A  memoir  of  the  life  of  Daniel  Webster,  in  1831. 

Advice  in  the  pursuits  of  literature,  containing  historical,  biographical, 
and  critical  remarks,  in  1832. 

Female  Biography,  containing  notices  of  distinguished  women  of  differ- 
ent ages  and  nations,  in  1834. 

Life  of  Thomas  Eddy,  with  extensive  correspondence,  in  1834. 

Tales  of  the  garden  of  Kosciuszko,  in  1834. 

Life  of  Aaron  Burr,  in  1835. 

The  Bachelors,  and  other  tales  founded  on  American  incidents  and 
character,  in  1836. 

Life  of  Timothy  Dexter,  in  1838. 

He  also  edited  Hortoii's  History  of  the  United  States,  in 
1834,  and  the  Library  of  American  History,  in  1837.  He 
remov^ed  from  New  York  City  in  1835  to  Hopkinton,  Mass., 
where  he  died  July  8,  1838. 

Stephen  Hooper,  jr.,  son  of  Stephen  and  AHce  Hooper," 
was  born  in  Newburyport  April  7,  1785.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1808,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  18 10,  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  Newburyport.  His  father  having  died 
in  1802,  he  lived  with  his  mother,  near  Pipe-Stave  hill,  in 
Newbury.-  He  was  one  of  the  representatives  from  that 
town  to  the  General  Court  in  18 10,  181 1,  and  18 12,  and  a 
member  of  the  state  senate  in  181  5  and  18 16.      He  removed 

'  Stephen  Hooper,  sr. ,  niairicd,  for  his  first  wife,  Sarah  Woodbridge  of  \e\s- 
burj'port  October  10,  1764.  She  cHed  b'n^"  26,  1779.  His  second  wife,  AHce 
Hooper,  died  May  8,  181 2. 

^  That  part  of  the  town  was  set  of  and  incorporated  by  the  name  of  Parsons  in 
181 9,  and  the  next  year  the  name  was  changed  to  West  Newbury, 


2  7  3  ^IS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

to  Boston,  and  opened  a  law  office  in  that  city  in  October, 
1818.  On  the  twenty-third  of  March,  1823,  he  married 
Susan  Coffin  Marquand  of  Newburyport.  He  died  in  Boston 
September  16,  1824. 

John  Pierpont,  son  of  James  and  Ehzabeth  (CoUins) 
Pierpont,  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  April  6,  1785. 
He  graduated  at  Yale  in  1804  ;  and  was  afterward  a  private 
tutor  in  the  family  of  Col.  William  Alston  in  South  Carolina. 
He  subsequently  read  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and, 
September  23,  18 10,  married  Mary  Sheldon,  daughter  of 
Lynde  and  Mary  (  Lyman )  Lord.     In  November,  or  December, 

181 1,  he  opened  a  law  office  in  Newburyport,  and  in   March, 

1812,  was  elected  a  member  of  the  school  committee.  He 
subsequently  prepared,  in  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  Newbury- 
port, a  memorial  presented  to  the  General  Court,  protesting 
against  the  proposed  division  of  the  state  into  senatorial  dis- 
tricts, and  was  a  member  of  a  special  committee  appointed  to 
prepare  a  similar  memorial  protesting  against  the  declaration 
of  war  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain' 

He  read  the  Declaration  of  Independence  at  the  public 
exercises  held  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Religious 
Society  of  Newburyport  July  4,  1812  ;  and  on  the  twenty- 
seventh  of  October  following,  at  a  meeting  of  the  members 
of  the  Washington  Benevolent  society,  he  read  a  poem  de- 
ploring the  effects  of  the  war  and  the  embargo.- 

In  1 8 14  or  18 1 5,  he  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  studied 
for  the  ministry.  John  and  Mary  Sheldon  (Lord)  Pierpont 
had  the  following-named  children  born  respectively  in  Litch- 
field, Newburyport,  Baltimore  and  Boston  : — 

'  Newburyport  Town  Records,  volume  II,  pages  423,  427  and  431. 
^  This  poem  was  published  in  pamphlet  form.  The  title-page  reads  as  follows: 
*'The  Portrait  1|  A  Poem  ||  Delivered  before  the  II  Washington  Benevolent  Socie- 
ty !l  of  Newburyport  ||  on  the  evening  of  October  27,  1812  II  By  John  Pierpont 
Esq.  II  Boston  li  Published  by  Bradford  &  Read  ||  J.  B.  Waitt  &  Co.  Printers  || 
1812." 


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279 


William  Alston,  born  in  Litchfield  July  11,  iSi  1. 

Mary  E.,  "     in  Nevvburyport  Sept.  iS,  1.S12. 

Juliette,  "     in  Baltimore  July  30,  iSif). 

John,  "     in  Boston  Nov.  24,  181 9. 

James,  "  "  April  25,  1S22. 

Caroline  Augusta,      "  "  Aug,  2 1,  i>S23. 

In  1 8 19,  Rev.  John  Picrpont 
was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Holhs  Street  Congregational 
church  in  Boston,  and  was 
afterward  pastor  of  Congrega- 
tional churches  in  Troy,  N.  Y., 
and  Medford,  Mass.  He  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Harriet  Louisa,  wid- 
ow of  Mr.  George  W.  Fowler, 
for  his  second  wife.  There 
were  no  chikiren  by  this  mar- 
riage. In  1840,  he  published 
^'  Airs  of  Palestine  and  other 
Poems,"  and,  later,  a  volume 
containing  twenty  sermons  and 
public  addresses.     He  died  in  Medford  August  27,  1866. 

The  above  half-tone  print  is  reproduced  from  a  photograph 
of  Mr.  Pierpont  now  in  the  possession  of  the  F"irst  Parish 
church  of  Medford. 


JOHN    PIERrONT. 


Caleb  Cushing,  son  of  John  N.  and  Lydia  (Dow)  Cush- 
ing,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  January  17,  1800.  When 
he  was  only  two  years  old  his  parents  removed  with  him  to 
Newburyport.  He  was  fitted  for  college  by  Michael  Walsh 
at  Salisbury  Point,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  18 17,  attended 
the  Harvard  law  school,  read  law  for  two  or  three  years 
in  the  ofifice  of  Ebenezer  Moseley,  esq.,  in  Newburyport, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1821.  He  married, 
November  23,  1824,  Caroline  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Samuel  S.  Wilde,  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Massachu- 


2  8o  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

setts.  She  died,  childless,  August  28,  1832  ;  and  Mr.  Gush- 
ing did  not  marry  again.  His  subsequent  career  as  a  lawyer, 
statesman  and  diplomatist  has  been  described  elsewhere,  and 
need  not  be  repeated  here.' 

Stephen  W.  Marston,  the  son  of  Peter  and  Rebecca 
(Webster)  Marston,  was  born  in  Fairlee,  Vermont,  December 
28,  1787.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  181  i;  and  read 
law  with  Edward  Little  and  William  B.  Bannister  in  New- 
buryport,  and  the  Hon.  Daniel  Appleton  White  in  Salem, 
Mass.  In  181  5,  he  opened  an  office  in  Newburyport,  and  in 
1 8 1 7  was  one  of  the  counsel  for  the  defence  in  the  celebrated 
Goodridge  robbery  case.  Daniel  Webster  being  the  senior 
attorney.  He  was  appointed  justice  of  the  Newburyport  police 
court  in  1833,  and  held  that  office  until  1866.  He  died  in 
Newburyport  August  27,  1873. 

Asa  Waldo  Wildes,  son  of  Dudley  and  Bethiah 
(Harris)  Wildes,  was  born  in  Topsfield  May  3,  1786.  He 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1809,  and,  after  teaching  school 
for  several  years  in  Newburyport  and  elsewhere,  read  law  in 
the  office  of  Stephen  W.  Marston.  June  7,  1818,  he  married 
Ehza  Ann,  daughter  of  Abel  Lunt.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1820,  and  had  a  law  office  in  Newburyport  until  1828, 
when  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Essex  county  commis- 
sioners, which  office  he  held  until  1856,  with  the  exception  of 
one  term  of  three  years,  from  1842  to  1845.  He  died  in 
Newburyport  December  4,  1857. 

William  Stickney  Allen,  son  of  Ephraim  W.  and  Doro- 
thy (Stickney)  Allen,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  30, 
1805.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1824,  read  law  with 
Stephen  W.  Marston,  and  opened  an  office  in  Newburyport  in 

'  See  Chapter  XXN'III;  "  Ould  Newbury:""  Historical  and  BiographicaLSketch- 
es,  pages  664-671 ;  and  History  of  Essex  County,  edited  by  D.  Hamilton  Hurd, 
volume  I,  pages  XXXVH-XL. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  281 

1827.  He  married  Margaret  Ann,  daughter  of  John  T. 
Ross,  December  19,  1832.  For  two  or  three  years  after  that 
date  he  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Newburyport  Daily 
and  Semi-Weekly  Herald.  In  1837,  he  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  was  engaged  in  editorial  work  on  the  Missouri 
Republican  for  several  years.  He  died  in  June,  1868,  in  St. 
Louis. 

Robert  Cross,  son  of  William  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  Cross, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  July  3,  1799.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  18 19,  read  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Ebenezer 
Moseley,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  Newburyport  in  1823.  He  was  elected 
representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  session  beginning 
May  31,  1826;  and,  in  1828,  married  Mary  Cabot  Tyng, 
daughter  of  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng.  In  1830,  he  removed  to 
Amesbury,  and  in  1844  to  Michigan.  Returning  to  Massa- 
chusetts in  1849,  he  settled  in  Lawrence,  where  he  opened 
an  office  and  lived  until  his  death,   November  9,  1859. 

George  Lunt,  son  of  Abel  and  Phebe  (Tilton)  Lunt,  was 
born  in  Newburyport  December  31,  1803,  and  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1824.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  New- 
buryport three  or  four  years  later,  and  was  elected  represen- 
tative to  the  General  Court  for  the  session  beginning  May  26, 
1830.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  in 
1835  and  1836,  and  a  member  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives for  the  sessions  beginning  January  4,  1837,  and  January 
6,  1 84 1. 

Removing  to  Boston  in  1848,  he  was  appointed  United 
States  attorney  for  the  district  of  Massachusetts  in  1849, 
serving  in  that  capacity  until  1853.  ^o^"  nine  years,  from 
1856  to  1865,  he  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Boston  Cour- 
ier, removing  subsequently  to  Scituate,  Mass.,  where  he 
resided  during  the  summer  months.  He  died  in  Boston  May 
17,  1885,  having  published  during  his  life  several  volumes  of 


2  82  HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

prose  sketches,  poems  and  miscellaneous  essays,  with  titles  as 
follows  : — 

The  Grave  of  Byron,  with  other  Poems,  1826 

Poems,  1839 

Age  of  Gold,  and  other  Poems,  1843 

Culture,  1843 

The  Dove  and  the  Eagle,  1851 

Lyric  Poems,  Sonnets,  and  Miscellanies,  1854 

Eastford,  or  Household  Sketches,  1855 

Julia,  185s 
Three  Eras  of  New  England,  and  other  addresses,      1857 

The  Union,  a  poem.  i860 

Origin  of  the  late  war,  1866 

Old  New  England  Traits,  1873 

Poems,  1884 

Henry  Willis  Kinsman,  son  of  Dr.  Aaron  and  Nancy 
(Willis)  Kinsman,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  March  6,. 
1803.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1822  ;  read  law  with 
Daniel  Webster  in  Boston,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  that  city  in  1826.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Willis  of  Boston,  October  i,  1828.  Re- 
moving to  Nevvburyport  in  1836,  he  was  elected  represent- 
ative to  the  General  Court  in  1839,  and  re-elected  in  1849 
and  1854.  He  was  collector  of  customs  from  1841  to  1845,. 
and  from  1849  to  1853.  He  married,  October  5,  1858,  for 
his  second  wife,  Martha  Frothingham  Titcomb,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Moody  Titcomb,  and  died  in  Nevvburyport  Decem- 
ber 4,    1859. 

Eben  Francis  Stone,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Fanny  (Cool- 
idge)  Stone,  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  August  3,  1822.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1843,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Essex  county  in  1846.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
Nevvburyport  in  1847,  and  married,  October  26,  1848,  Har- 
riet Perrin,  daughter  of  Augustus  and  Harriet  (Child)  Perrin 
of  Boston. 


L.^II '  YEA'S  AXD  DOC  TORS  285 

He  was  a  member  of  the  state  senate  aud  a  representativ^e 
to  the  General  Court  for  sev^eral  sessions.  In  the  Civil  war 
he  had  command  of  a  regiment  in  the  Nineteenth  army 
corps,  under  General  Banks,  and  participated  in  the  engage- 
ments at  Port  Hudson  in  May  and  June,  1863. 

He  was  elected  representative  to  the  forty-seventh  con- 
gress, beginning  December  5,  1881,  and  was  twice  re-elected, 
serving  until  the  close  of  the  forty-ninth  congress,  March  3, 
1887.      He  died  in  Nevvburyport  January  22,  1895.' 

Aaron  Au<iUSTUs  Sar(;ent,  son  of  Aaron  P.  and  Eliza- 
beth Sargent,  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  28,  1827. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  a  printer,  and  was  employed  for 
several  years  in  the  office  of  Clark  &  Whitten,  publishers  of 
the  Newburyport  Daily  Courier.  In  1847,  he  was  a  news- 
paper reporter  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  next  year  was 
employed  as  pri\ate  secretary  by  a  member  of  congress  from 
the  state  of  New  York.  Early  in  the  year  1849  he  sailed 
from  Baltimore  for  California,  stopping  at  Valparaiso,  Chili, 
on  the  way,  and  arriving  at  San  Francisco  in  December  of 
that  year.  After  some  delay,  he  found  employment  as  a 
printer  in  the  office  of  the  San  Francisco  Courier,  and  after- 
wards as  a  type-setter  and  reporter  for  the  Nevada  Journal. 

He  returned  to  Newburyport  in  1851,  and  married,  March 
15,  1852,  Ellen  Swett,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Rebecca  (In- 
galls)  Clark.  Having  devoted  several  months  to  the  study  of 
law,  he  again  went  to  California,  taking  his  wife  with  him.  In 
1853,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Nevada  county,  and  the 
next  year  was  elected  district  attorney. 

In  1 86 1  and  in  1868  he  was  a  representative  to  congress 
from  California,  and  in  1870  was  elected  senator  and  served 
for     two     terms.       In     1882,     he    was     appointed     minister 

'  For  additional  facts  relating  to  the  life  and  character  of  Hon.  Eben  F. 
Stone,  see  chapter  XXIX  of  this  volume;  "  Ould  Newbury:'"  Historical  and 
Biographical  .Sketches,  pages  693-699;  and  the  memorial  address  delivered  in 
Nevvburyport  April  21,  1895,  by  Hon.  William  U.  Northend  of  Salem,  Mass. 


284  ^^^ TOR  Y  OF  NE  \VB  UR  YPOR  T 

plenipotentiary  to  Germany,  but  held  that  office  only  two 
years,  resigning  in  1884,  and  returning  to  San  Francisco, 
where  he  died  August  14,  1887,  leaving  a  widow,  one  son 
and  two  daughters. 

Richard  S.  Spofford,  jr.,  son  of  Dr.  Richard  Smith  and 
Frances  Lord  (Mills)  Spofford,  was  born  in  Newburyport 
February  15,  1833.  He  read  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Caleb 
Gushing,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United  States 
circuit  court  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1856,  and  to  the  bar 
in  Essex  and  Suffolk  counties,  Massachusetts,  in  1857.  He 
was  a  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  sessions 
beginning  January  6,  1858,  January  5,  1859,  ^'"^^  January  3, 
1866.  He  married  Harriet  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Newmarch  and  Sarah  (Bridges)  Prescott,  December  19,  1865. 

For  many  years  he  had  a  law  office  in  Boston,  and  was  for 
several  years  the  legal  attorney  and  solicitor  for  the  Galves- 
ton, Harrisburg  &  San  Antonio  Railway  Company,  which 
now  forms  a  part  of  the  Southern  Pacific  railway  system.  He 
died  in  Newburyport  August  11,  1888.' 

probate  and  supreme  court  judges. 

One  justice  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  and  two  judges 
of  the  supreme  judicial  court  of  Massachusetts  resided  in 
Newburyport  at  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  and  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  nineteenth  centuries,  in  addition  to  the  counselors 
and  attorneys  named  above. 

Benjamin  Greenleaf  was  chief-justice  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  and  judge  of  probate  for  Essex  county  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Newbury  March  19, 
1732,  and  was  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Greenleaf. 
Graduating  at  Harvard  in  1751,  he  lived  for  several  years 
after  that  date  in  Kittery,  Maine,  and,  September  22,    1757, 

'  "  Ould  Newbmy:"    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  225-227. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  285 

married  Elizabeth,  daui,^hter  of  Rev.  Charles  and  Elizabeth 
Chauncey." 

Returning  to  Newbury  in  1761,  he  became  interested  in 
public  affairs,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  incorporation  of 
Newburyport,  in  1764.  The  inhabitants  of  the  new  town 
elected  him  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  years 
1766,  1767,  1768  and  1770.  His  wife  died  July  12,  1769; 
and  he  married,  January  22,  1784,  Mrs.  Lucy  Derby,  for  his 
second  wife. 

In  the  Revolutionary  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  commit- 
tee of  safety,  and  was  actively  engaged  in  procuring  food, 
clothing  and  military  supplies  for  the  Continental  army.  In 
1775,  he  was  appointed  chief-justice  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas,  and  four  years  later  judge  of  probate  for  Essex  coun- 
ty. He  held  the  last-named  office  until  1796,  and  the  office 
of  chief -justice  until  1797,  when,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he 
resigned,  and  retired  to  private  life. 

He  died  in  Newburyport  January  13,  1799,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground,  near  the  Auburn  street  en- 
trance.   The  inscription  on  his  tombstone  reads  as  follows  : — 

Here 

are  deposited 

the  remains  of  the 

Honorable 

Benjamin  Greenleaf,  Esq. 

who  departed  this  Hfe 

January  13111    1799 

in  the  67111  year 

of    his 

Age. 

Hon.  Samuel  Sumxer  Wilde,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ann 
(Sumner)  Wilde,  was  born  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  February  5, 
1 77 1.      He  graduated  at   Dartmouth  in    1789,  was  admitted 

1  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Chauncey)  Greenleaf,  born 
July  13,  1758,  married  Theophilus  Tarsons  January  13,  1780.  She  died  February 
3,  1829. 


2  86  til^  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

to  the  bar  of  Bristol  county,  Mass.,  in  1792,  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  Waldoborough,  Maine,  but  removed  to 
Hallovvell  in  1799.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the  justices  of 
the  supreme  judicial  court  of  Massachusetts  in  181 5,  and 
when  the  district  of  Maine  was  made  a  separate  state  and 
admitted  into  the  Union,  in  1820,  he  removed  to  Newbury- 
port.  His  daughter,  Caroline  Elizabeth  Wilde,  married  Hon. 
Caleb  Cushing  November  23,  1824.  Judge  Wilde  removed 
to  Boston  in  183 1,  and  retained  his  seat  on  the  bench  until 
the  summer  of   185 1.      He  died  in  Boston  June  25,  1855. 

Hon.  George  Thacher,  son  of  Peter  Thacher,  was  born 
in  Yarmouth,  Cape  Cod,  April  12,  1754;  graduated  at  Har- 
vard in  I  'J'j6  ;  began  the  practice  of  law  in  York,  Maine,  in 
1780,  and  removed  to  Biddeford  in  1782.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  continental  congress  in  1788,  and  of  the  first  congress 
of  the  United  States,  which  met  in  New  York  City  March  4, 
1789,  after  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitution.  He  was 
re-elected  representative  to  congress  from  the  district  of 
Maine  for  several  successive  terms,  but  resigned  his  seat  in 
1 801  to  accept  the  office  of  judge  of  the  supreme  judicial 
court  of  Massachusetts.  He  resided  in  Biddeford  until  the 
legal  separation  of  Maine  and  Massachusetts  was  decided 
upon,  when  he  removed  to  Newburyport,  where  he  lived  until 
January,  1824,  when  he  resigned  his  seat  on  the  bench  and 
returned  to  Biddeford.  He  died  in  the  month  of  April  fol- 
lowing.' 

ESSEX    BAR    ASSOCIATION. 

Barristers  authorized  to  practice  in  the  supreme  judicial 
court  of  Massachusetts  were  by  a  rule  adopted  in  1 806  called 
counselors-at-law.  In  order  to  secure  certain  privileges  and 
advantages  to  which  they  were  entitled  under  this  rule,  the 
Essex  Bar  association  was  organized  early  in  the  spring  of 

1  Newburyport  Herald,  April  13,  1824. 


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that  year.  It  consisted  of  twenty-three  members,  six  of  them, 
Joseph  Dana,  Michael  Hodge,  Edward  Little,  Edward  St.  Loe 
Livermore,  Ebenezer  Moseley  and  Daniel  A.  White,  were 
from  Newburyi^ort.  This  association  was  dissolved  in  181 2, 
and  a  new  one  formed  in  1831,  which  lasted  only  a  few  years. 
In  1836,  the  distinction  between  counselor  and  attorney  was 
abolished  in  Massachusetts.  The  present  Essex  Bar  associa- 
tion was  organized  in  October,  and  the  constitution  adopted  in 
December,    1856. 

When  the  city  charter  was  accepted  by  the  inhabitants  of 
Newburyport,  in  185 1,  the  following-named  counselors-at-law 
resided  within  the  limits  of  the  city  : — 


Horace  Bickford, 
Joseph  G.  Gerrish, 
Nathaniel  Hills, 


Stephen  W.  Marston, 
William  A.  Marston, 
Samuel  Phillips, 


Eben  F.  Stone. 


Other  lawyers  living  in  the  city  at  that  date,  but  not  in 
active  practice,  were  William  B.  Bannister,  Caleb  (wishing, 
Henry  W.  Kinsman,  Ebenezer  Moseley  and  Asa  W.  Wildes. 
Subsequently,  the  following-named  persons  were  admitted  to 
the  bar,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Newburyport  at  the 
dates  named  : — 


Caleb  Lamson,  in  I1S53 

Joseph  H.  Bragdon,  "  1S54 

John  N.  Pike,  "  1S54 

H.  B.  Fernald,  ••  1S55 

Harrison  G.  Johnson,  "  1S56 

John  B.  Swasey,  "  1856 

Charles  Osgood  Morse,  "  1856 

Charles  W.  Tuttle,  "  1S58 

Amos  Noyes,  "  i860 

Richard  S.  Spofford,  jr.,  "  i860 

Nathaniel  Pierce,  "  1864 

William  E.  Currier,  "  1866 

Frederick  D.  Burnham,  "  1871 

Thomas  Huse,  jr.,  "  1877 

David  L.  Withington,  "  1877 

Thomas  C.  Simpson,  jr.,  "  1879 


Frank  W.  Hale,  in  1879 

John  C.  M.  Bayley,  "  1879 

Horace  I.  Bartlett,  "  1880 

Charles  C.  Dame,  "  1884 

Nathaniel  N.Jones,  "  1884 

Francis  V.  Pike,  "  1889 

Robert  E.  Burke,  "  1890 

George  B.  Blodgette,  "  1893 

David  P.  Page,  "  1896 

Edward  H.  Rowell,  "  1900 

Ernest  Foss,  "  1901 

Oscar  H.  Nelson,  "  1901 

George  H.  O'Connell,  "  1901 

Timothy  S.  Herlihy,  "  1902 

Charles  T.  Smith,  "  1904 

Arthur  Withington,  "  1904 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


DOCTORS. 


The  first  educated  physician  who  settled  in  the  town  of 
Newbury  was  Dr.  John  Clark.  He  was  granted  a  farm  of 
four  hundred  acres  at  the  mouth  of  Cart  creek  January  23, 
1637-8.  After  his  removal  to  Ipswich,  in  1647,  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Dr.  William  Snelling,  in  1649,  by  Dr.  Peter  Top- 
pan,  in  1660,  by  Dr.  Henry  Greenland  in  1663,  and  at  a  later 
date  by  Dr.  John  Dole,  Dr.  Humphrey  Bradstreet  and 
others. ' 

When  Newburyport  was  incorporated,  in  1764,  Dr.  Nathan 
Hale,  Dr.  John  Sprague,  Dr.  John  Newman  and  Dr.  Micajah 
Sawyer  were  living  within  the  limits  of  the  new  town.^ 

Nathan  Hale,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Northend)  Hale, 
was  born  June  2,  1691.  He  married  Elizabeth  Kent  August  27, 
1 71 3,  and  lived  in  that  part  of  Newbury  which  was  set  off 
and  incorporated  by  the  name  of  Newburyport  in  1764.  He 
was  a  large  owner  of  real  estate,  a  skillful  physician  and  a 
justice  of  the  peace.  The  inscription  on  his  gravestone  in 
the  Old  Hill  burying  ground  reads  as  follows  : — 

Here  lie  ye  Remains  of  Nathan  Hale,  Esq., 
Who  died  May  gt'i  1767  aged  76  years. 
He  was  a  Physician  of  much  Experience  &  Considerable  Eminence  & 
highly  esteemed  in  his  Profession,  which  he  carefully  attended,  distribu- 
ting his  Services  without  Distinction  to  Rich  &  Poor.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  which  office  he  faithfully  executed 
with  Integrity  &  without  Partiality.  He  was  a  Gentleman  of  agreeable 
manners  and  a  thorough  Friend,  but  above  all  he  was  a  Christian  of  ex- 
emplary Piety :  he  was  devout  without  Ostentation  &  religiously  Care- 
full  to  confirm  his  Principles  by  a  Life  becoming  the  Doctrines  he  pro- 
fessed. Indeed  ye  Physician,  ye  Magistrate,  ye  Gentleman  and  the 
Christian  were  united  in  his  Character  in  such  a  manner  as  made  his 
Life  desirable  and  greatly  usefull  &  his  Death  justly  lamented. 

'  History  of  Newbui^  (Currier),   pages  662-669. 
^  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  666,  667. 


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He  gave  in  his  will,  proved  May  25,  176"/^  all  his  real  estate 
and  personal  property  to  his  wife  Elizabeth,  for  her  support 
during  her  life  and  for  the  support  of  his  son  Nathan,  par- 
tially deranged,  and  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  married  John 
Watkins.  He  also  provided  for  the  distribution  of  his  prop- 
erty after  the  decease  of  his  wife,  and  gave  a  dwelling  house, 
with  about  three  and  one-half  acres  of  land,  on  the  south- 
easterly corner  of  the  country  road,  now  High  street,  and 
I'ish,  now  State,  street,  to  his  son  Nathan  and  daughter  Eliz- 
abeth, and  directed  that  the  remainder  of  his  estate  should 
be  equally  divided  among  them,  Nathan's  share  to  be  invested 
for  his  support  and  maintenance,  and  Elizabeth's  share  to  be 
held  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  her  children,  William  Wat- 
kins,   Elizabeth  W^atkins  and  Andrew  Watkins. 

His  widow,  Elizabeth  (Kent)  Hale,  died  April  9,  1768,  in 
the  eighty-fifth  year  of  her  age. 

Dr.  John  SpRA(iL'E,  with  his  wife  Ruth,  probably  came 
from  North  Yarmouth,  Cumberland  county,  Maine,  to  New- 
bury, Mass.,  as  early  as  1737.'  Two  sons  and  two  daughters 
were  born  to  John  and  Ruth  Sprague,  in  Newbur)',  as  fol- 
lows : — 

Mary,     born  March  30,    i  73S. 
John,  "      September  27,  1740. 

Ruth,         '•      August  14,  1746. 
William,   "      February  9,  i  749. 

Mrs.  Sprague  died  previous  to  1753;  and,  May  19,  1754, 
Doctor  Sprague  married  Prudence  Titcomb,  for  his  second 
wife.  The  following-named  children  were  born  to  John  and 
Prudence  (Titcomb)  Sprague  : — 

John,     born  February  17,    1755. 
Edward,  "     January  7,   1758. 
Martha,    '•     December  13,  1761. 
Michael,  •'     November  13,  1763. 

'  History  of  Newltury  (("inrieiO.  page  666. 


290 


n[S TOR  Y  OF  XF.  U'B  UR  YPOR  T 


When  Newburyport  was  incorporated,  in  1764,  Doctor 
Sprague  was  living  within  the  hmits  of  the  new  town.  His 
will,  dated  March  17,  1781,  was  proved  April  26,  1784.  He 
was  the  owner  of  considerable  real  estate  in  the  town  of 
Wendell,  N.  H.,  in  North  Yarmouth,  Maine,  and  in  Newbury, 
Mass.,  at  the  time  of  his  death  ;  "  also  a  pew  in  the  North 
Yarmouth  meeting  house  and  a  pew  in  Rev.  Mr.  Gary's 
meeting  house  in  Newburyport."' 

The  inscription  on  his  gravestone  in  the  Old  Hill  burying 
ground  reads  as  follows  : — 

This  is  erected 
to  the  Memory  of  that  Valuable  Man 
Docf  John  Sprague  alike  eminent  for 
his  integrity  and  Abilities.  As  a  Ph}-- 
sician  he  was  highly  esteemed.  For 
more  than  forty  seven  years  he  was  a 
Practitioner  in  this  Town.  His  death 
which  was  on  the  i  yt'i  day  of  April 
1 784  was  generally  lamented  as  a  great 
and  almost  irreparable  loss  to  the  Publick 

His  age  was  74  . 

Mary,  daughter  of  Doctor  Sprague,  by  his  first  wife,  mar- 
ried, December  2,  1760,  William  Fisher  of  Boston.  Her  sister 
Ruth  married,  September  20,  1781,  Edward  Rand  of  New- 
buryport. Mrs.  Ruth  (Sprague)  Rand  died  September  i, 
1789.^ 

Martha,  daughter  of  Doctor  Sprague,  by  his  second  wife, 
married,  November  28,  1782,  Jonathan  Gibson  Parsons, 
grandson  of  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons.  After  the  death  of  her 
husband,  Martha  (Sprague)  Parsons  married,  October  2 1 , 
1792,  Edward  Rand,  her  brother-in-law. ^      Mary   Parsons,  a 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  356,  page  540;  and  book  357,  page  582. 
-  Edward  and  Ruth  (Sprague)   Rand  had  three  children,  namely:  — 

Edward  Sprague,  born  June  23,  1782;    died  December  23,  1863. 

Isaac,  "     September  7,  1784;  died  July  14,  1S18. 

John,  "     January  27,  1786;    died  July  24,  181 1. 

•*  Martha  (Sprague- Parsons)  Rand  died  February'  27,  1829.  Her  husband, 
Edward  Rand,  died  December  3,  1829. 


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291 


daughter  by  the  first  marriage,  was  born  March  2,  1783.  The 
children  by  the  second  marriage  were  as  follows  : — 

George,  born  October  6,  i  793  :  died  in  infancy. 

Charles,  "      August  11,  1795  ;  died  in  infancy. 

Margaret  Demmon,  "      Feb.  3,  1  798  ;  married  John  Andrews. 
Jane,  "      Dec.  17,  1802;  married  David  Wood. 

Dr.  John  Newman  married,  May  21,  1741,  Elizabeth, 
■daughter  of  Col.  Joshua  Wingate  of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  where 
he  was  then  living,  and  where  three  of  his  children  were  born, 
namely,  Elizabeth,  in  November,  1741,  John,  in  July,  1743, 
and  Jane,  in  January,  1744-5.  He  removed  with  his  family 
to  Newbury  in  1 746.  After  that  date,  the  following-named 
children  were  baptized  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  Third 
parish  then  standing  on  what  is  now  Market  square,  New- 
buryport  : — 

Wingate.  baptized  P'ebruary  15,   1746-7. 

Payne.  ■'  September   10,   1749. 

Elizabeth.        '•  September  29.   1751. 

Judith.  •■  August  2,   1753. 

Joshua.  ■'  October  26,   1756. 

Mary.  "  January   i.   1758. 

Timothy,  ••  March  30.    i  760. 

Joanna.  '•  March    i.    176S. 

Doctor  Newman  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  petition  to  the 
General  Court  for  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport  in  1764. 
He  died  in  Newburyport  February  18,  1806. 

Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer,  son  of  Dr.  Enoch  Sawyer,  was  born 
in  Newbury  July  15,  1737.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1756, 
and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  that  part  of  Newbury 
which  was  set  off  and  made  a  separate  town  in  1764.  He 
married  November  25,  1766,  Sibyll,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Sibyll  (Angier)   Farnham,' 

1  Intention  of  marriage  filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  town  of  Newburyport  October 
25,  1766. 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


One  son,  William  Sawyer,  born  February  i,  1771,  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  in  1788,  studied  medicine  with  his  father, 
and  practised  his  profession  for  a  few  years,  but  subsequently 
removed  to  Boston  and  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits.  He 
died  in  that  city,  unmarried,  April  18,  1859. 

One  daughter,  Hannah  Farnham  Sawyer,  married,  January 
20,  1807,  George  Gardner  Lee  of  Boston.  Another  daugh- 
ter, Mary  Ann  Sawyer,  married,  the  same  day,  Philip  Jere- 
miah Schuyler    of  Rhinebeck,    N.  Y.     Descendants  of  Mrs. 


RESIDENCE    OF    DR.    MICAJAH    SAWYER. 


Lee  and  Mrs.  Schuyler  are  still  living  in  the  vicinity   of  Bos- 
ton and  in  the  state  of  New  York.' 


"  Doctor  SawTCr  had  two  uncommonly  handsome  daughters,  distinguished  far 
and  wide  for  their  superior  beauty  and  style.  I  have  seen  a  letter,  written  in  1803, 
by  a  daughter  of  an  ex-governor  of  New  Hampshire,  and  the  wife  of  an  ex- 
member  of  Congress,  describing  parties  which  she  attended  in  Washington,  during 
Jefferson's  administration,  at  the  houses  of  the  President,  and  of  the  Secretary-  of 
State,  and  of  the  French  Minister,  in  which  she  says  that  she  had  seen  nothing  in 
Washington  equal  in  style  and  elegance  to  the  parties  given  by  the  Sawyer  girls  in 
Xewbur)-port."  (Remarks  of  Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone  at  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Newbury.) 


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293 


In  1766,  Doctor  Sawyer  purchased  of  the  heirs  of  Richard 
Collins  land  formerly  owned  by  Joseph  Hoyt'  on  the  north- 
westerly side  of  Fish,  now  State,  street,  and  built  a  dwelling 
house  which  is  still  standing  there,  although  much  changed  in 
outward  appearance.  When  Pleasant  street  was  laid  out  a 
portion  of  this  estate  was  taken  for  the  highway,  and  fifty  or 
sixty  years  later  the  house  was  raised  from  the  level  of  the 
street  to  its  present  position,  a  basement  or  lower  story  added, 
and  the  entire  building  converted  into  offices  and  stores  as 
shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page. 

Dr.  Micajah  Sawyer  died  in  Newburyport  September  29, 
i(Si5,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 

Dr.  John  Barnard  Swett,  son  of  Samuel  Swett,  was 
born  in  Marblehead  June  i,  1752.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1767  ;  studied  surgery  in  Edinburgh,  completing  his  edu- 
cation after  two  or  three  years'  practice  in  the  hospitals  of 
France  and  England.  He  returned  to  Marblehead  in  1778, 
and  enlisted  as  a  surgeon  in  the  expedition  to  Rhode  Island 
under  General  Sullivan.  In  1779,  he  served  for  several 
months  in  the  unfortunate  expedition  to  the  Penobscot  river 
under  the  command  of  General  Lovell  of  Massachusetts  and 
Captain  Saltonstall  of  Connecticut.  He  manued.  May  4, 
1780,  Charlotte  Bourne  of  Marblehead. 

At  the  earnest  solicitation  of  kinsmen  and  friends,  he  de- 
cided to  begin  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Newburyport,  and 
subsequently  purchased  a  dwelling  house  and  barn  "  on  a 
lane  called  Temple  street,"  bounded  by  land  of  Robert  Las- 
comb,  Samuel  Newhall,  Henry  Lunt  and  others. - 

He  had  a  large  library,  and  used  a  book-plate  designed  to 
represent  the  profession  of  medicine,  as  shown  in  the  half-tone 
print  on  the  next  page,  described  as  follows  :  At  the  top  of 
the  plate,  resting  upon  a  couch  and  attended  by  four  cupids  or 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  58,  leaf  65;    Essex  Deeds,  bo(jk  i  iS,   leaves  .280  and  281 : 
and  book  119,  leaf  69. 

2  Essex  Deetls,  book  163,  leaf  227. 


2  94  ^^^^  '^O^  ^  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

cherubs,  is  the  body  of  a  patient  about  to  undergo  a  surgical 
operation,  while  under  the  name  "J.  B.  Swett  "  the  serpent 
of  yEsculapus  is  twisted  about  a  rod,  standing  upright  between 
retorts  and  herbs  growing  in  flower  pots. 


BOOK-PLATE. 


Doctor  Swett  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  masonic 
fraternity,  and  through  his  influence,  in  1795,  the  first  en- 
campment of  Knight  Templars  was  established  in  Newbury- 
port.     He  died  of  malignant  yellow  fever  August  16,  1796.' 

After  his  death,  his  widow,  Charlotte  (Bourne)  Swett,  sold 
the  house  and  land  on  Temple  street,  and  removed  to  Exeter, 
N.  H.-  A  year  or  two  later,  she  married  Hon.  John  T,  Oilman, 
for  many  years  governor  of  the  state  of  New  Hampshire. 

Dr.  Samuel  Colman,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Anne  (Brown) 
Colman,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  December  25,  1762. 
He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Dummer  Academy,  and  graduated 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Mrs.  E.  \'ale  Smith),  pages  370  and  371. 
-  Essex  Deeds,  book  164,  leaf  187. 


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at  Harvard  in  1780.  Two  or  three  years  later,  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Hallowell,  Maine,  remaining  there 
until  the  summer  of   1787. 

He  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  William  and  Abigail 
(Beck)  Atkins  of  Newburyport,  October  14,  1787,  and  soon 
after  that  date  went  to  Augusta,  Maine,  where  he  dev^oted 
himself  to  his  profession  for  nearly  twenty  years. 

In  1806,  probably,  he  removed  to  Newburyport  with  his 
family.  He  had  a  drug  store  at  number  one  Water  street, 
corner  of  Market  square,  in  1807/  and  opened  a  private 
school  for  boys  and  girls,  in  Middle  street,  in  1 809.- 

He  died  December  7,  1810,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's 
churchyard. 

Dr.  Moses  Little,  son  of  Richard  and  Jane  (Noyes) 
Little,  was  born  in  Newbury,  "near  the  trayneing  green," 
July  4,  1766.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1787,  in  the 
class  with  John  Ouincy  Adams,  who  frequently  mentions  him 
in  his  diary. 3 

Doctor  Little,  after  completing  his  studies  with  Dr.  John 
Barnard  Swett  of  Newburyport,  began  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Salem,  Mass,  He  married,  April  17,  1 799,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  George  Williams,  esq.,  and  died  in  Salem 
October  13,  181 1. 

Dr.  William  Bouchier  Leonard,  born  in  London  in 
1737,  was  a  surgeon  in  the  English  navy  for  several  years. 
He  came  to  New  England  in  1793  probably,  and  in  December 
of  that  year  was  in  Newburyport,  as  stated  in  the  following 
advertisement : — 

Doctor  Leonard 

Respectfully  acquaints  the  inhabitants  of  this  Town  and  Environs, 
that,  after  an  extensive  Practice,  by  Sea  and  land,  and  in  the  many  Hos- 
pitals in  London  &  other  parts  of  Europe,   where  he  has  been  a   Practi- 

'  See  advertisement  in  Xewbuiyport  Ilerakl,  February  17,  1807. 

^  See  advertisement  in  Newbuiyport  Herald,  ,\pril  10,  1809. 

•'  Life  in  a  New  Enj^land  Town,  published  by  Little,  Krown  \:  Co.,  1903. 


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tioner  in  Physic  and  Surgery.  Midwifery  &c  &c  upwards  of  thirty  live 
years,  and  with  good  success  in  many  great  operations  ;  and  it  has  so 
happened  that  kind  Providence  has  enabled  him  to  Spring  out  of  the 
iron  chains  of  tyranny,  horror,  devastation  and  murder,  to  the  only  sum- 
mit of  Liberty  under  the  Sun,  and  where  the  diadem  of  a  despot  was 
hurled  down  to  the  bottomless  abyss,  and  where.  I  hope,  even  a  shadow 
of  the  like  will  never  more  appear. 

Mr.  Leonard  inlreats  for  a  share  in  the  favors  of  his  fellow  citizens, 
and  he  humbly  hopes  that  his  abilities  and  experience,  cemented  with 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty  to  the  lives  and  limbs  of  his  employ- 
ers, will  commend  him  to  future  favors  which  he  solicits  no  longer  than 
his  character  is  deserving  of  the  same,  which  will  ever  be  acknowledged 
with  gratitude  by  their  most  obliged  and  very  humble  serv^ant. 

WiLLi.AM  B.  Leonard.' 

November  i  8,  1 799,  Doctor  Leonard  married  Mrs.  Susanna 
Lindsey  of  Newburyport.-  He  owned  and  occupied  a  house 
on  Kent  street  at  that  date.  His  wife  died  March  30,  1 800, 
and  August  4,  1801,  he  sold  at  auction  his  house,  barn,  surgi- 
cal instruments,  and  household  furniture. ^  A  few  months 
later,  he  removed  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  where  he  married  Lydia 
Moulton,  a  daughter  of  William  Moulton,  formerly  of  New- 
buryport. 

Doctor  Leonard  appears  to  have  been  a  skilful  surgeon,  but  was  rough 
and  coarse  in  his  manners  and  language,  retaining  the  habits  acquired 
in  his  naval  service  at  a  period  when  profanity  and  rudeness  occupied  the 
place  of  the  genteel  manners  of  the  present  day.  He  still  retained  and 
kept  up  the  fashion  of  the  showy  dresses,  such  as  prevailed  in  the  days 
of  Queen  Elizabeth,  which  in  the  backwoods  of  Ohio  excited  the  curi- 
osity of  a  people  accustomed  to  the  most  simple  attire.  He  was  thin 
and  spare  in  person,  with  very  slender  legs,  on  the  borders  of  old  age. 
His  favorite  costume  was  a  blue  broadcloth  coat  trimmed  with  gold 
lace,  and  enormous  gilt  buttons,  a  waistcoat  of  crimson  velvet,  with 
large  pocket  flaps,  and  small  clothes  of  the  same  material,  a  pair  of  silk 
or  worsted  stockings  drawn  over  his  slender  legs,  with  large  silver  buckles 
at  the  knees  and  in  the  shoes.  On  his  head  he  w^ore  a  full  flowing  peri- 
wig, of  vi'hich  he  had  six  or  eight  varieties,    crowned    with   a  three-cor- 

'  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  December  4,  1793. 
-  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  November  22,  1799. 
3  Advertisement  in  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette.  July  31,  180 1. 


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nered  or  cocked  beaver  hat.  Over  the  whole,  when  he  appeared  in  the 
street,  unless  the  weather  was  very  hot.  he  wore  a  large  scarlet-colored 
cloak.  This  dress,  with  his  gold-headed  cane,  always  called  for  the  ad- 
miration and  wonder  of  the  boys,  who  followed  close  in  his  train,  and 
were  often  threatened  with  his  displeasui-e  in  not  very  civil  language. 
When  travelling  on  horseback  to  visit  his  patients  he  rode  a  coal  black 
steed,  with  long  flowing  mane  and  tail,  the  saddle  and  trappings  of  which 
were  as  antiquated  and  showy  as  his  own  dress.' 

Doctor  Leonard  died  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  in  1806. 

Dr.  Fr.\ncis  Vergines  de  Bonischere  came  to  Newbury- 
port  from  Gaudaloupe  in  September,  1796.-  He  lived  for  two 
months  with  Capt.  William  McHard,  and  then  removed  to  the 
house  owned  and  occupied  by  Paul  Noyes,  "  at  the  corner  of 
Market  and  Union  (now  Washington)  streets,"^  where  he  died 
May  26,  1830,  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  his  age. 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Brad.street  was  born  in  Topsfield  Octo- 
ber 4,  1 77 1.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1795,  and  studied 
medicine  with  Dr.  James  Thacher  of  Plymouth  and  Doctor 
Holyoke  of  Salem.  In  1798,  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of 
the  sloop-of-war  Merrimac,  Moses  Brown  of  Newburyport, 
captain,  and  made  several  voyages  to  the  West  Indies  in  that 
ship.  In  P'ebruary,  1800,  he  resigned  his  commission  and 
commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Newburyport.  He 
soon  became  prominent  in  his  profession,  and  was  highly 
esteemed  as  a  physician  and  surgeon.  He  died  in  Newbury- 
port October  6,  1828.-* 

Dr.  Nathan  Noyes,  son  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wheeler) 
Noyes,  was  born  in  Newbury  April  3,  1777.  He  graduated 
at  Dartmouth  college  in  1 796,  and  from  the  Dartmouth  Med- 
ical school  in  i  799.     Six  months  later,  he  began  the  practice 

1  New  England  Historical  and  (lenealogical    Register,   volume   III,    page    137; 
and  volume  IV,  page  357. 
^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  117  and  118. 
^Impartial  Herald,  November  18,  1796. 
*  Newburj-port  Herald,  October  10,  1828. 


298  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

of  medicine  in  Newburyport,  but   soon  removed  to  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  where  he  died  September  24,  1842. 

Dr.  Phillips  White  Hackett,  son  of  John  and  Betsey 
(French)  Hackett,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  October  3, 
1 78 1.  His  father  was  one  of  the  builders  of  the  frigate  Al- 
liance, launched  at  Salisbury  Point  in  1778.  His  mother, 
Betsey  French,  married  for  her  first  husband  John  White,  son 
of  Hon.  Phillips  White  of  South  Hamilton,  N.  H.  ;  second, 
John  Hackett  of  Salisbury ;  and,  third,  Isaac  Bernard  of 
Amesbury. 

Phillips  W.  Hackett  was  probably  fitted  for  college  by 
Michael  Walsh.  He  studied  medicine  with  a  physician  in 
Hampstead,  N.  H.,  where  he  married,  May  30,  1807,  Eliza- 
beth Putnam,  sister  of  Oliver  Putnam,  who  was  a  successful 
merchant  and  founder  of  the  Putnam  Free  school  in  New- 
buryport. She  probably  did  not  long  survive  the  birth  of  her 
first  child,  Sarah  Ann  Hackett,  born  in  Hampstead  January 
31,  1809. 

In  the  summer  of  18 10,  Doctor  Hackett  removed  to  New- 
buryport, and  on  the  twenty-third  of  October  published  the 
following  notice  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  : — 

Dr  Hackett  having  commenced  business  solicits  the  patronage  of  the 
inhabitants :  particular  attention  will  be  paid  to  any  business  in  the  line 
of  his  profession  as  Physician  and  Surgeon.  A  good  opportunity  is 
offered  to  a  young  gentleman  wishing  for  instruction  in  the  profession. 

His  evening  school  will  be  opened  the  25th  instant  in  a  chamber  of 
Capt  Samuel  CofBn's  brick  building,  a  few  rods  below  Kent  street.' 

In  the  war  of  18 12,  Doctor  Hackett  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
service  of  the  United  States,  on  the  great  lakes.-  After  the 
return  of  peace  he  came  again  to  Newburyport,  but  his  pecu- 

'  In  1796,  William  Moreland,  William  Caldwell  and  John  Knight  sold  to  Sam- 
uel Coffin  the  brick  building  on  Merrimack  street,  near  the  foot  of  Kent  street.  It 
was  then  a  distillery,  and  afterward  a  tenement  house  (North  End  Papers,  by 
Oliver  B.  Merrill,  in  the  Newburyport  Daily  News,  August  ii,    1906). 

-  Newburyport  Herald,  February  25,  1861. 


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liarities  and  enfeebled  mental  condition  made  it  impossible  for 
him  to  practise  his  profession.  How  or  where  he  lived  for 
many  years  is  a  mystery.  In  1 846,  he  purchased  a  small 
one-story  building,  and  moved  it,  with  the  assistance  of 
friends,  to  a  vacant  lot  on  the  Ferry  road.  The  house  was 
surrounded  by  young  birch  trees,  and  the  pathway  leading  to 
it  was  Uned  with  piles  of  horse  shoes,  keys,  hoops,  bits  of 
iron  and  other  wayside  treasures  he  had  gathered  in  his 
wanderings  about  the  town.  In  this  humble  dwelling  he  lived 
alone,  occupied  with  household  cares  six  days  in  the  week, 
and  on  the  seventh  attending  divine  service,  with  great  regu- 
larity, in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Religious  Society  on 
Pleasant  street.' 

He  was  naturally  peaceable  and  quiet,  but  was  sometimes 
provoked  to  anger  by  mischievous  boys  who  trespassed  upon 
his  property  in  the  day-time  and  disturbed  his  slumbers  at 
night.  In  the  following  communication,  pubUshed  in  the 
Newburyport  Herald,  he  appeals  to  the  public  for  sympathy 
and  to  the  guardians  of  the  town  for  protection  : — 

Address  to  the  Public. 

From  two  bold  acts,  one  of  them  very  dangerous,  which  have  lately 
occurred  at  my  dwelHng-place  in  Belleville,  I  am  constrained  to  address 
not  only  the  Public  generally,  and  my  friends  particularly,  but  the  town 
authorities  ;  for  I  fear  unless  something  can  be  done  to  prevent  the  pro- 
gress of  such  outrages  being  committed  on  and  about  my  buildings,  I 
surely  shall  be  ousted,  it  being  apparendy  determined,  at  all  hazards,  ut- 
terly to  destroy  my  peaceful  stay,  or  no  stay  at  all.  at  my  cottage.  On 
the  25th  day  of  Sept.  1.S46,  I  placed  my  house  where  it  now  stands. 
Some  two  or  three  years  since,  in  the  month  of  October,  and  on  the  Sab- 
bath day  while  I  was  gone  to  meeting,  my  house  was  broken  open,  en- 
tered, things  thrown  into  disorder,  and  a  short  ladder  and  a  lot  of  boards 
piled  on  my  bed.  For  three  several  times  the  key  hole  to  the  lock  of  my 
door  has  been  partially  filled  with  sand  or  gravel,  insomuch  that  it  was 
with  difficulty  I  removed  the  bolt :  tubs  of  water  upset,  wood  piled 
against  my  door,  and  the  like.  On  the  Sabbath  of  the  27th  ult.  I  came 
here  about  twilight,  and.  to  my  surprise.  I  discovered  that  3  boards  were 

1  Gmtemporaries,  liy  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson,  jiages  344-347. 


^oo  H^^  'TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

torn  from  the  backside  of  my  store-house,  and  some  of  the  contents 
scattered  all  around.  To  repair  the  breach  occupied  most  of  my  time 
the  following  Monday.  On  Tuesday  evening.  13111  inst.,  a  large  pile  of 
brush  and  other  wood,  eight  rods  from  my  dwelling-house  and  about 
three  rods  from  my  store-house,  was  set  on  fire  while  I  was  absent.  I 
desire  to  be  thankful  that  it  extended  no  farther.  For  the  efforts  of  my 
neighbors,  particularly  Messrs.  Wm  Merrill,  Chs  Bartlett,  David  Reed 
and  Nathi  Ordway,  to  stop  the  ravages  of  the  devouring  element,  1  ten- 
der my  cordial  thanks.  I  am  anxiously  afraid  what  may  happen  here- 
after to  my  buildings.  Firstly,  I  would  appeal  to  the  Supreme  being 
whose  omniscient  eye  sees  all  our  actions,  who  alone  is  able  to  arrest  the 
progress  of  wicked  men.  Secondly,  to  the  authorities  and  guardians  of 
the  town.  As  such  I  humbly  pray  you  to  take  the  matter  seriously  into 
consideration  ;  if  possible  to  try  to  prevent  the  repetition  of  such  de- 
structive actions.  I  have  endeavored  to  live  an  inoffensive  life  these 
thirty-three  years  past,  most  of  which  time  I  have  spent  in  Old  Newbury. 
I  think  I  have  given  no  cause  to  persons  for  them  to  aim  such  base  and 
annoying  conduct  at  me. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Phillips  W.  Hackett. 

(r^^  10  dollars  reward  will  be  paid  as  above  to  any  person  or  persons 
who  will  correctly  inform  who  set  the  fire  to  the  wood  near  my  dwelling- 
house  in  Newburyport  on  Tuesday  evening  the  y^  inst.' 

Enfeebled  by  old  age  and  disease,  Doctor  Hackett  was 
obliged  to  accept  aid  from  the  overseers  of  the  poor  during 
the  last  years  of  his  life.  He  died  at  the  almshouse  in  New- 
buryport February  20,  1861,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery 
on  Clark's  lane,  so  called,  at  Salisbury  Point,  now  a  part  of 
Amesbury,  Mass. 

Dr.  Lawrence  Sprague  of  Dedham  probably  began  to 
practise  medicine  in  Newburyport  as  early  as  1802.  Decem- 
ber 13,  1804,  he  married  Sarah  Titcomb  of  Newburyport, 
and  occupied  a  dwelling  house  on  Washington  street,  between 
Winter  and  Boardman  streets.  He  subsequently  opened 
a  drug  store  on  State  street,  and  purchased  a  dweUing  house 
in  Market  square.     In    18 12,   he  advertised   drugs,  medicine 

>  Newburyport  Daily  Herald,  May  26,  1851. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCTORS  ,01 

and  spices  for  sale  "  at  his  store  on  State  street,  sign  of  the 
Pestle  and  Mortar,  next  door  above  Mr.  Francis  Todd's,"  and 
informed  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport  and  vicinity  that  he 
still  continued  to  practise  his  profession  and  was  ready  to 
attend  patients  needini;"  the  services  of  a  surgeon  or  physi- 
cian.'     Four  years  later  he  published  the  following  notice: — 

Doctor  Sprague,  having  ascertained  lliat  a  report  is  in  circulation  tliat 
lie  has  rehnquished  his  profession  since  his  return  from  the  South,  takes 
this  method  to  contradict  tlie  rumor  and  inform  his  Friends  and  the  Pub- 
he  that  he  is  now  in  the  Practice  of  Physic  and  .Surgery  to  the  exclusion 
of  every  other  kind  of  business He  may  be  found  at  his  resi- 
dence in  Brown's  Scjuare  until  the  first  day  of  May  next,  at  which  time 
he  shall  occupy  the  House  lately  owned  by  Deacon  \V'"  Farnham  in 
High  street,  opposite  to  Market  street. - 

The  Poor  who  are  not  under  the  Protection  and  Direction  of  the 
Town  will,  as  usual,  receive  Advice  and  every  Attention  free  of  every 
expense.3 

Sarah  (Titcomb)  Sprague,  wife  of  Doctor  Sprague,  died  in 
July,  1816,  and  he  married,  July  5,  18 18,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas.  Soon  after  the  last-named  date 
he  probably  removed  from  Newburyport.  His  subsec|uent 
career  is  unknown. 

Dr.  Daniel  Kilham,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  Kilham, 
was  born  in  Wenham,  Mass.,  January  15,  1753.  He  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  in  1777,  and  studied  medicine  with  Doctor 
Holyoke  of  Salem,  Mass.  Several  years  later,  he  came  to 
Newburyport  and  opened  an  atpothecary  shop  near  the  foot  of 
State  street.  He  was  unmarried  and,  with  John  Ouincy 
Adams,  then  a  student-at-law  in  Newburyport,  boarded  at  the 
house  of  Mrs.  Martha  Leathers,  on  the  southcasterl}-  side  of 
Market  square.  ■• 

'  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  March  17,  1812. 
-  "  Ould  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  131. 
■^  Newburyport  Herald  and  Commercial  Gazette,  April  16,  1816. 
*  Life  in  a  New  England  Town,  pages  32,  67,  100  and  106, 


302 


HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  VPOR  T 


Doctor  Kilham  was  elected  representative  to  the  General 
Court  September  17,  1786,  for  the  session  ending  May,  1787, 
and  on  the  eighteenth  of  June  following  was  chosen  to  fill  the 
vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  Jonathan  Greenleaf, 
for  the  session  ending  May,  1788/ 

He  removed,  on  account  of  ill  health,  to  a  farm  in  Wenham 
in  1804. 

He  was  a  tine  specimen  of  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  somewhat 
formal  and  reserved  in  his  habits,  but  always  kind  and  courteous,  inde- 
pendent in  his  opinions  and  fearless  in  expressing  them,  a  faithful  friend, 
as  well  as  a  resolute  and  determined  opponent,  an  excellent  type  of  a 
class  of  men  which  has  now  almost  passed  away.  He  retained  as  long 
as  he  lived  the  old-fashioned  small  clothes,  thus  preserving  the  dress  as 
well  as  the  manners  of  his  younger  days.  He  was  never  married,  his 
house  being  kept  by  a  widowed  sister.- 

He  died  quite  suddenly,  of  heart  disease,  in  Wenham,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1 841,  aged  eighty-eight. 

Dr.  Oliver  Prescott,  born  April  4,  1762,  in  Groton, 
Mass.,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1783,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  June,  1786.  Hemarried,  October 
22,  1 79 1,  Ann,  daughter  of  Leonard  Whiting  of  Hollis,  and 
for  twenty-five  years  was  a  prominent  physician  in  Groton. 
In  1 8 1 1 ,  he  removed  to  Newburyport,  and  soon  had  the 
largest  practice  of  any  physician  in  Essex  county.  January 
I,  1 8 14,  he  purchased  a  dwelling  house,  still  standing,  on  the 
northwesterly  corner  of  Green  and  Washington  streets,  which 
he  subsequently  occupied. ^  His  wife  died  there  September  3, 
1821  ;  and  Doctor  Prescott  married,  secondly,  November  6, 
1823,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Thomas  Oliver,  and  daughter  of 
Henry  Atkins  of  Boston.  Mary  Prescott,  a  daughter  by  the 
first  wife,  married,  June  23,  1825,  John  Belknap  of  Boston. 
Doctor  Prescott  died  September  26,  1827,  leaving  a  widow, 
Elizabeth  (Oliver)  Prescott,  and  several  unmarried  children. 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  679  note. 

*  History  of  Wenham  (Myron  O.  Allen),  page  147. 

3  "  Ould  Newbury:"     Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages 336  and  337. 


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Dr.  John  Brickett,  son  of  Dr.  James  and  Edna  (Merrill) 
Brickett,'  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  June  2,  1774,  and 
married,  September  29,  1795,  Elizabeth  Ayer  of  Haverhill. 
His  children  by  this  marriage  were  as  follows  : — 

Lavinia  born  August  17,  1796;  died  March  2,  1S22. 

Martha  Kimball,    "      March  25,  1798:  died  August  18,  1807. 
Sarah  Ayer,  "     June  13,  1800;  died  July  25,  1825. 

John  James,  "     Feb.  1,  1802  :  died  Sept.  30,  1824,  on  the 

passage  from  Jamaica  to  Newburyport. 
Eliza  W.,  "     May  30,  1804;  died  January  3,  1873. 

Elizabeth  While,   "     June  13,  1806;  died   April  19,  1807. 

The  above-named  children  were  born  in  Newburyport, 
according  to  the  record  made  by  the  town  clerk,  but  Doctor 
Brickett  is  described  as  a  physician  in  Newbury  in  deeds  dated 
March  29,  1800,  and  February  22,  1805.^  His  wife  died 
March  15,  1807.  and  he  married,  September  12,  1809,  Lydia 
M.  Woodbury  of  Newburyport,  for  his  second  wife.  In 
1 8 10,  he  occupied  a  dwelling  house  on  Essex  street,  but 
removed  to  Mr.  Woodbridge  Noyes'  house  on  the  northwest 
corner  of  Fruit  and  Prospect  streets  in  April,  18 12.3  In  the 
month  of  September  following  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  priva- 
teer Decatur  under  the  command  ot  Capt.  William  Nichols. •♦ 

Doctor  and  Lydia  (Woodbury)  Brickett  had  only  one 
child,  Martha  Ann  Kimball  Brickett,  born  June  2,  181 1. 
She  married,  July  31,  1833,  WilHam  H.  Moody  of  Lowell,  .son 
of  Paul  Moody  of  Newbury. ^ 

1  Dr.  James  I^rickett  was  l)()rn  in  Newbviry,  Afass.,  February  16,  1738.  lie 
was  a  surgeon  in  the  army  organized  for  the  capture  of  Canada  in  1756,  and  after- 
ward general  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  married  Edna  Merrill  October  8, 
1760.  .She  died  September  2r,  1802,  and  he  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Abigail 
Moody  Januar)'  24,  1803. 

'•^  Essex  Deeds,  book  165,  leaf  236;    and  book  186,  leaf  153. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  April  17,  i8i2. 

■•  Historical  CoUecdons  of  the  Essex  Institute,  volume  VI,  No.  5,  October,  1864. 

*  The  children  of  William  H.  and  Martha  (Brickett)  Moody  were  as  follows: 

Susan  Lydia,  born  in  1835:  married  George  W.  A.  Williams  in  November,  1854. 
Hannah,  born  in  1837:  married  John  Q.  A.  Williams  Dececember  15,  1858. 
MaryC,  born  in  1839;  married,  first,  George  Faunce  Aug.  31,  1859;  second,  James 
B.  Dow,  jr.,    Nov.  2,  1864;    she  died,  leaving  no  issue. 


304 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


During  the  last  years  of  his  life  Doctor  Brickett  owned  and 
occupied  a  three-story  dwelling  house  on  the  southwesterly 
side  of  High  street,  near  the  head  of  Boardman  street.  He 
died  August  23,  1848.  Funeral  services  were  held  in  St. 
Paul's  church,  and  he  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  adjoin- 
ing. His  widow,  Lydia  (Woodbury)  Brickett,  died  October 
17,  1854. 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Hale,  son  of  Thomas  and  Alice  (Little) 
Hale,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  April  28,  1809.  He 
graduated  at  the  Dartmouth  medical  school  in  1829,  and 
began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Newbury,  Vt.  He  subse- 
quently removed  to  New  York,  and  was  appointed  secretary 
of  a  marine  insurance  company  in  that  city.  He  retained 
that  office  until  1837,  when  he  resigned  in  order  to  travel 
with  a  party  of  friends  in  England  and  on  the  continent  of 
Europe.  Returning  to  Newburyport  in  1838,  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  married,  June  13,  1844, 
Sarah  White  Bannister,  daughter  of  William  B.  and  Mary 
(Brown)  Bannister.  October  6,  1846,  he  bought  a  dwelling 
house,  with  several  acres  of  land  under  and  adjoining  the 
same,  on  the  corner  of  Toppan's  lane  and  High  street, 
"  known  by  the  name  of  Mount  Rural,"  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  August  2,  1847.' 


[Note  from  page  303  continued.]  The  children  of  George  \V.  A.  and  Susan 
(Moody)  Wilhams  were  as  follows: — Joseph  Balch,  married  Annie  Moseley  Lang 
of  Dorchester;  Georgiana,  married  George  Albree  of  Boston;  Helen  Ladd,  unmar- 
ried;   and  Charles  Jackson,  who  died  in  infancy. 

John  Q,  A.  and  Hannah  (Moody)  Williams  had  one  daughter,  Martha  Moody, 
who  married  Edward  Atkins  of  Boston. 

Joseph  Balch  and  Annie  (Lang)  Williams  had  children  as  follows:  Elsie  (de- 
ceased), Pearce  Penhallow,  Constance,  Francis  Cabot,  and  Joseph  Balch  Wil- 
liams, jr. 

George  and  Georgiana  (Williams)  Albree  had  only  one  son,   Norman  Albree. 

Edward  and  Martha  Moody  (Williams)  Atkins  had  one  daughter,  Marjorie,  and 
a  son,  Paul  Moody  Atkins. 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  373,  leaf  211. 


LAWYERS  AND  DOCrORS 


305 


Ebenezer,  an  only  child  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  and  Sarah 
White  (Bannister)  Hale,  born  Octobers,  1845,  died  Febru- 
ary 19,  i860. 

Dr.  Richard  S.  Spofford,  son  of  Dr.  Amos  and  Irene 
(Dole)  Spofford,  was  born  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  May  24,  1787. 
He  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1 8 12,  and  began  the  practice 
of  medicine  three  or  four  years 
later  in  Rowley,  but  soon  re- 
moved to  Newburyport.  In 
1 8 16,  and  for  several  years 
after  that  date,  he  had  rooms 
"  at  Mrs.  Hale's  boarding 
house  on  State  street."' 

July  13,  1829,  he  married 
Mrs.  Frances  Maria  Lord  and 
occupied  a  dwelling  house  on 
Titcomb  street,  removing  to 
Fair  street  the  next  year.^ 

For  more  than  fifty  years 
he  was  prominent  in  the  med- 
ical profession  and  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  mysteries  of  Freemasonry,  He  died  in  New- 
buryport January  19,  1872,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill 
cemetery.  The  above  half-tone  print  is  reproduced  from  a 
photograph  of  Doctor  Spofford  now  in  the  possession  of 
Lawrence  B.  Gushing. 

Dr.  Samup:l  \Vi[f:eler  Wvman,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
W.  Wyman,  was  born  in  Boston  in  July,  1793.  He  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  in  18 14,  and  studied  medicine  with  Doctor 
Shattuck  in  Boston  and  Doctor  Twitchell  in  Hanover.  In 
1818,  he  began  practice,  as  a  physician  and  surgeon,  in  Ip- 
swich, removing  to  Newburyi)ort,  in  1821,  where  he  married, 

'  Newbui yport  Herald,  September  3,  1816. 
-  Newburyport  Herald,  April  23,  1830. 


KK.    KICHAKl)    S.    Sl'OFFOKI). 


3o6 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


November  13,  1824,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Joshua  Toppan,  and 
lived  for  many  years  in  a  house  still  standing  on  the  south- 
westerly side  of  Orange  street.  His  wife  died  December  31, 
1865.      He  died  January  31,  1867. 

Dr.  Jonathan  Greenleaf  Johnson,  son  of  William  Pierce 
and  Sarah  Johnson,  was  born  in  Newburyport  November  12, 
1790.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  18 10,  and  began  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine  in  Newburyport  three  years  later.  October 
4,  1 81 3,  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Oilman  White. 
Doctor  Johnson  died  in  Newburyport  September  9,  1868.' 

Dr.  Henry  Coit  Perkins, 
son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Storey)  Perkins,  was  born  in 
the  Wolfe  tavern  on  State 
street,  Newburyport,  Novem- 
ber 13,1 804.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1824,  and  received 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  August, 
1827.-  On  the  third  day  of 
September  following  he  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Newburyport,  and  married, 
October  30,  1828,  Harriet, 
daughter  of  John  Davenport. 

He    was   interested    in     the 


DR.    HEXRY    C.    PERKINS. 


1  Eleazer  Johnson,  twin  brother  of  Doctor  Johnson,  married,  October  i,  i8il, 
Fanny  Toppan.  He  was  elected  town  clerk  of  Newbmyport  in  March,  1831,  and 
served  until  the  adoption  of  the  city  charter,  in  1851,  when  he  was  elected  city 
clerk,  and  held  that  office  until  his  death,  February  27,  1S70. 

"^  In  a  brief  autobiographical  sketch,  pul  .lished  after  his  death,  Doctor  Perkins 
wrote  concerning  an  event  that  occurred  soon  after  his  graduation  as  follows:  — 

"  On  the  27  or  28th  of  the  same  month  [August,  1827],  between  nine  and  ten 
o'clock  in  the  evening,  there  appeared  in  the  heavens  a  luminous  bow,  about  five 
degrees  in  width,  and  extending  across  the  celestial  vault  from  east  to  west.  This 
was  the  first  auroral  arch  I  had  ever  heard  of,  read  of,  or  seen.  At  that  time  no 
one  knew  what  to  make  of  it.  The  frequent  appearance  of  such  arches  since, 
either  alone  or  accompanied  by  auroral  streams,  has  called  much  attention  to  such 
phenomena^on  the  part  of   many  scientific  writers." 


/..lirVKKS  .I.V/y  DOCTORS 


;o7 


study  of  science  and  art,  and  made,  by  the  process  disco\ercd 
by  M.  Daguerre  in  183S,  a  daguerreotype  which  was  probably 
the  first  one  produced  in  New  England,  if  not  the  first  in  the 
United  States.'  The  above  half-tone  print  of  Doctor  Perkins 
is  reproduced  from  a  photograph  now  in  the  possession  of 
his  son,  Henry  Russell  Perkins. 

Doctor  Perkins  was  a  member  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  in  1866  was  elected  president  of 
the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society.  He  died  in  Newburyport 
P^ebruary  i,  1873. 

Dr.  Enoch  Cross,  son  of  Abijah  and  Elizabeth  (Parker) 
Cross,  was  born  in  Methuen  July  19,  180 1.  He  graduated 
from  the  medical  department  of  Dartmouth  college  in  1824, 
and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Bradford.  June  2, 
1828,  he  married  Charlotte  T.  Pettingell  of  Salisbury,  N.  H., 
and  in  1829  came  to  Newburyport,  where  he  lived  for  five 
years  in  a  house  on  Middle  street,  formerly  owned  by  Capt. 
Peter  Le  Breton. 

In  1834,  owing  to  ill  health,  he  considered  it  advisable  to 
remove  to  Peoria,  Illinois.  Returning  to  New  England,  in 
1842,  he  settled  in  Gorham,  Maine,  where  his  wife  died  the 
next  year,  leaving  two  sons,  John  and  Henry  M.  Cross. 

November  28,  1844,  Doctor  Cross  married  Margaret,  sister 
of  Rev.  Randolph  Campbell,  and  again  took  up  his  residence 
in  Newburyport.  In  1853,  he  purchased  a  dwelling  house 
and  land  on  the  corner  of  Titcomb  and  Washington  streets,^ 
where  he  lived  until  his  death,  May  19,  1888. 

'  A  brief  description  of  this  daguerreotype  and  the  art  of  '•  solar  painting  "  was 
published  in  the  Newburj'port  Herald  November  i,  1839. 

Daguerre  exhibited  his  first  collection  of  daguerreotypes,  in  the  French  Acade- 
my of  Sciences,  early  in  the  year  1839.  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse  was  in  Paris  at  that 
time,  and  saw  the  collection.  After  his  return  to  America  he  fitted  up  a  studio  at 
No.  140  Nassau  street,  New  York  City,  and  there,  so  his  friends  claim,  "made 
the  first  sun  pictures  on  this  continent."  See  pamphlet.  Life  of  Jedediah  Morse, 
D.  D.,  by  Sidney  E.  Morse,  published  in  1867,  page  16. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  494,  leaf  169. 


3  o8  HI  ST  OR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Dr.  John  Atkinson,  son  of  John  and  Lucy  (Chipman) 
Atkinson,  was  born  in  Minot,  Maine,  April  1 3,  1 799.  He 
attended  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School,  graduating  in  1823. 
January  12,  1825,  he  married  Sarah  Crocker  of  Minot,  and 
came  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  where  he  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  that  part  of  the  town  known  as  Belleville. 

In  1828,  he  removed  to  Newburyport,  living  in  a  house 
nearly  opposite  the  head  of  Boardman  street,  on  High  street, 
until  1830,  when  he  purchased  a  house  on  Strong  street, 
which  he  subsequently  occupied. ' 

His  wife  died  December  4,  1835,  and  was  buried  in  St. 
Paul's  churchyard.  In  August,  1836,  he  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Zilpha  (Gerrish)  Bartlett.  He  died 
August  21,  1852,  leaving  a  widow,  four  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters.    His  widow  died  May  31,  1872. 

Dr.  Josiah  Atkinson,  son  of  John  and  Lucy  (Chipman) 
Atkinson,  was  born  in  Minot,  Maine,  August  16,  181 7.  He 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  college  in  1842,  and  afterward  studied 
medicine  in  the  Berkshire  medical  school  in  Pittsfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

He  married,  June  29,  1848,  Olivia  C.  Bonney  of  Roches- 
ter, Mass.,  and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Dorchester, 
removing  to  Newburyport  in  1853.  He  occupied  a  house  on 
the  southwesterly  side  of  Merrimack,  near  Boardman,  street, 
owned  by  the  estate  of  Abraham  Williams,  and  subsequently 
leased  the  house  on  Strong  street,  formerly  owned  by  his 
brother,  Dr.  John  Atkinson,  deceased,  and  afterward  a  house 
on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  now  owned  by  the  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad  corporation. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  war,  owing  to  domestic 
affliction  and  serious  financial  losses,  his  mind  became  unset- 
tled, and  in  a  fit  of  temporary  insanity  he  took  his  own  life 
June  21,  1869. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  256,  leaves  30  and  31 


L.nVYERS  AND  DOCTORS 


309 


When  the  city  charter  was  adopted,  in  185  i,  the  following- 
named  pln'sicians  were  living  within  the  limits  of  the  city  : — 


Jonathan  G.  Johnson,  residence  on 

Samuel  W.  Wynian,  "  " 

Richard  S.  Spofford,  •'  " 

Enoch  Cross.  '■  " 

Henry  C.  Perkins,  •'  " 

Stephen  M.  Gale,  "  " 

George  W.  Skinner,  '•  " 

Job  T.  Dickens,  "  " 

J.  H.  Sawyer,  "  " 

John  Atkinson,  "  " 

John  Merrill,  "  " 
H.  T.  Packer, 

E.  P.  Grosvenor,  "  " 


Spring    ; 

■itreet, 

Orange 

.( 

P'air 

" 

Middle 

i( 

Essex 

" 

State 

1. 

State 

" 

Pleasant 

(1 

Titcomb 

u 

Strong 

u 

High 

u 

Warren 

'• 

High 

:( 

Other  physicians  subsequently  began  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Newburyport  at  the  dates  named  in  the  following 
list  : — 


James  A.  Tiiton, 
Josiah  Atkinson, 
Francis  A.  Howe, 
E.  P.  Cummings, 
George  W.  Snow, 
David  Foss, 
Job  B.  M.  Dickens. 
Edward  P.  Hurd, 
George  Montgomery, 
James  J.  Healey, 
John  F.  Young, 


1  Dr.  Daniel  H.  Spofford  came  to  Xewburyporl  in  1S77.  He  had  an  office  at 
No.  1 1  Brown  square,  and  afterwards  at  Xo.  55  .State  street,  removing  to  Boston 
in  September,  1878,  but  visiting  Newburyport  twice  a  week  for  several  months 
after  the  last-named  tlate.  Fie  was  a  Christian  Scientist,  using,  according  to  his 
published  statement,  "  no  medicine,  mediumship,  or  mesmerism.'"  He  became 
involved  in  a  centroversy  with  Mrs.  Mary  Baker-Glover  Eddy  in  regard  to  the 
payment  of  a  royalty  of  two  dollars  a  week  which  she  claimed,  and  was  subse- 
(juently,  according  to  the  account  pubHshed  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  October 
30,  1878,  the  victim  of  a  conspiracy  that  culminated  in  an  attempt  to  kidnap  him 
and  compel  him  to  abandon  his  practice  in  Massachusetts. 


•  853 

Daniel  H.  Spofford,'      in     1877 

i!^53 

Alvah  B.  Dearborn, 

•      1877 

1857 

James  A.  Merrill, 

"      1877 

1866 

Frank  A.  Hale,                 ' 

'      I ''^79 

1866 

Henry  F.  Adams,            ' 

'      1883 

1869 

LB.  Bolton, 

'      1883 

1872 

John  Homer,                      ' 

■     1884 

1873 

Charles  VV.  Stiles,           " 

■      1886 

i''^73 

Ernest  H    Noyes,             ' 

'      1889 

1874 

George  W.  Worcester,    ' 

'      1889 

1874 

Frederick  Tigh, 

'      1891 

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HISTORY  OF  NFAVBURYPORT 


Charles  F.  Johnson,  in  1.S92  Randolph  C.  Hurd,  in  1901 

Clarence  C.  Day,  "  1X94  Charles  F.  A.  Hall,  "  1902 

Abby  Noyes  Little,  "  1897  Fred  O.  Morse,  "  1903 

Arthur  C.  Nason,  '•  1S97  Robert  D.  Hamilton,  "  1905 

Warren  W.  Pillsbury,  "  1897  James  O.  Lacaillade,  "  1905 

Simeon  O.  Pilling,  "  1898  John  W.  Shaw,  "  1907 

Alphonso  B.  Brown,  "  1901  Frank  W.  Snow,  "  1907 

Thomas  R.  Healy,  "  190!  Coburn  D.  Wendell,  "  1908 

In  addition  to  the  doctors  who  have  settled  in  Newbiiry- 
port,  many  who  were  born  within  the  present  Umits  of  the 
city  have  located  elsewhere.  One  distinguished  physician, 
eminent  in  the  profession,  and  for  many  years  clinical  profes- 
sor at  Harvard  University,  has  recently  died  in  Boston.  A 
brief  sketch  of  the  prominent  events  in  his  life  closes  this 
chapter. 

Frederick  Irving  Knight,  son  of  Frederick  and  Ann 
(Goodwin)  Knight,  was  born  in  Newburyport  May  8,  1841. 
He  graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1862,  and  at  the  Harvard 
medical  school  in  1866,  completing  his  studies  in  the  hospi- 
tals of  Berlin,  Vienna  and  London  two  or  three  years  later. 

Returning  to  Massachusetts,  Doctor  Knight  settled  in  Bos- 
ton and  devoted  himself  to  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  the 
throat  and  chest. 

October  15,  1871,  he  married,  in  Berlin,  Louisa  Armistead 
Appleton,  and  soon  after  that  date  purchased  a  commodious 
dwelling  house  on  Beacon  street,  in  Boston,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death.  He  was  consulting  physician  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts General  Hospital  for  many  years,  and  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  journals  of  medical  science. 

His  wife  died  August  23,  1901.  He  died  February  20, 
1909,  leaving  one  daughter,  Mrs.  G.  K.  B.  Wade  of  New 
York  City.  Both  Doctor  Knight  and  his  wife  were  buried  in 
Oak  Hill  cemetery,  Newburyport. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

AUTHORS,    ARTISTS    AND     ENGRAVERS. 

Simon  Greenleaf,  son  of  Moses  and  Lydia  (Parsons) 
Greenleaf,  was  born  in  Newburyport  Decembers,  1783.  His 
father,  with  other  members  of  the  family,  removed  to  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  in  1790,  but  Simon,  then  seven  years  old, 
remained  in  Newburyport,  with  his  grandfather  Jonathan 
Greenleaf,  ship-builder,  and  attended  the  Latin  Grammar 
school,  then  in  charge  of  Michael  Walsh,  author  of  Walsh's 
Arithmetic.  He  afterwards  read  law  in  the  ofifice  of  Hon. 
Ezekiel  Whitman  at  New  Gloucester,  was  admitted  to  the 
Cumberland  bar  in  1806,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
Standish,  Maine,  removing  to  Portland  in  18 18. 

He  married,  September  18,  1806,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Ezra  and  Susanna  (Whitman)  Kingman  of  Bridgewater, 
Mass.  During  his  residence  in  Portland  he  received  from 
Bowdoin  college  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

In  1834,  he  was  appointed  Royal  Professor  of  the  Harvard 
law  school,  and  accepted  the  Dane  Professorship  after  the 
death  of  Judge  Story,  in  1836.  He  was  a  writer  of  marked 
ability,  and  published  several  volumes  with  titles  as  follows : — 

Hrief  inquiry  into  the  origin  and  principles  of   Free   Masonry,    icS2o. 
Collection  of  Cases  Overruled,  Doubted,  or  Denied,  1840. 
Examination  of  the  Testimony  of  the  F"our  Evangelists  by  the  Rules  of 

Evidence  as  administered  in  the  Courts  of  Justice,  with  an  account 

of  the  trial  of  Jesus,  1846. 
Digest  of  the  Law  of   Real  Properly,  with  notes.  1850. 
The  Law  of  Evidence,  volume   1  in    1842;    volume    II  in    1846,    and 

volume  III  in  1852. 

In    1848,    Professor   Greenleaf  was  obliged  to  resign   his 

3" 


312 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


office  in  the  Harvard   Law  School   on   account  of  ill  health. 
He  died  in  Cambridge  October  6,   1853. 


Hannah  Flagg  Gould  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Grizzell 
Apthorp  (Flagg)  Gould,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1 789.  She  came,  with  her  father,  mother  and 
other  members  of  the  family,  to  Newburyport  in  the  year 
1800,  and  lived  with  them  for  many  years  in  a  three-story 
brick  dwelling  house  on  Charter  street  now  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  John  E.  McCusker.' 

At  an  early  date  she  wrote  occasional  verses  and  short 
sketches  for  the  newspapers  of  the  day.     Her  first  volume  of 

poems  was  published  in  1832, 
a  second  edition  in  1833,  and 
a  third  in  1835.  These  poems, 
with  some  additional  odes, 
hymns  and  verses,  were  pub- 
lished in  two  volumes  in  1836 
and  1839,  and  in  three  volumes 
in  1 84 1. 

She  subsequently  wrote  and 
published  "  The  Golden  Vase  ; 
a  gift  for  the  Young,"  in  1843  5 
*'  Gathered  Leaves,"  a  collec- 
tion of  prose  sketches,  in  1 846  ; 
"New  Poems,"  and  "Esther: 
a  Scripture  Narrative,"  in 
1850;  "  Diosma,"  a  collection 
of  original  and  selected  poems,  in  185 1  ;  "The  Youth's 
Coronal"  in  1852;  "The  Mother's  Dream  and  other 
Poems"  in  1853;  "Hymns  and  Poems  for  Children"  in 
1854;  and  "  Poems  for  Little  Ones"  in  1863. 

She  died  September  5,  1865,  unmarried,  and  was  buried  in 
the  New  Hill   burying  ground.     Ten   or    fifteen  years  later 


HANNAH    F.    COULD. 


1  "(Juki  Newbury:"   Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  659-663. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  313 

some  sprightly  verses,  written  at  the  beginning  of  her  hterary 
career  for  the  entertainment  of  her  personal  friends,  and 
called  "  Epitaphs,"  were  printed  in  the  ncwspa])ers  of  the 
day  and  subsequently  collected  and  ])ublished  in  pamphlet 
form.' 

A  portrait  of  Miss  Gould,  painted  by  an  unknown  artist, 
although  crude  and  unsatisfactory,  gives  in  an  exaggerated 
form  the  shape  and  lineaments  of  her  face,  as  shown  in  the 
above  half-tone  print. 


Robert  Stevenson  Coffin,  son  of  Rev.  Ebenezer  and 
Mary  (Newhall)  Coffin,  was  born  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  July 
14,  1794.^  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New- 
bury, and  afterwards  learned  the  trade  of  a  printer  in  New- 
buryport.  In  the  war  of  18 12  he  shipped  as  a  seaman  on 
board  a  vessel  that  was  captured  by  an  English  frigate  and 
the  crew  made  prisoners.  After  his  release  he  found  employ- 
ment in  a  printing  office  in  Boston,  and  was  subsequently 
assistant  editor  of  a  newspaper  in  Philadelphia. 

His  poetical  contributions  to  the  press  were  collected  and 
published  in  181 7  under  the  title  of  "The  Printer  and  sev- 
eral other  Poems,  by  R.  S.  Coffin,"  and  in  1818  "The  Mis- 
cellaneous Poems  of  the  Boston  Bard  "  were  printed  in  Phil- 
adelphia, by  J.  H.  Cunningham,  for  the  author.  In  1825,  he 
published  a  brief  sketch  of  his  life,  and  in  1826  a  volume  of 
poetry  with  the  following  title-page  : — 


^  See  appendix:  and,  also,  Poets  of  Essex  County,  l)y  Sidney  I'erley.  pages 
64-66. 

^  Rev.  Ebenezer  Coflin  was  born  in  Xewbury  February  16,  1769;  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1789,  and  ordained  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Brunswick 
in  1792.  He  married  Mary  Newhall  October  17,  1793,  and  in  180J  removed 
with  his  family  to  Newbury,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  school  teacher  f<;r  many 
■\-ears.      He  died  [anuary  26,  1816. 


3 1 4  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Oriental   Harp^ 
Poems 

of  the 

Boston  Bard 

"  This  is  my  own,  my  native  land  " 

Providence,  R.  I. 

Printed  and  Published  by  Smith  &  Parmenter 

Agents  for  the  sale  of  the  Oriental  HaqD 

1826 

He  returned  to  New  England  weak  and  impoverished  by 
the  intemperate  use  of  intoxicating  hquor.  In  December, 
1826,  he  had  rooms  at  the  residence  of  Major  Oilman  White, 
opposite  the  head  of  Market  street,  in  Newburyport.^  He 
died  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  May  7,  1827.  Funeral  services  were 
held  in  St.  Paul's  church,  Newburyport,  Rev.  James  Morss 
officiating.  He  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  near  the  head  of 
Marlborough  street,  in  the  town  of  Newbury.^ 

George  Wood,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Wood,  was  born 
in  Newburyport  July  21,  1798.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  he  removed  in  1 816,  with  his  mother,  to  Alexandria, 
Va.,  where  he  found  employment  in  a  large  commission  house. 
Three  years  later  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  war  department  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  afterwards  held  a  responsible  position 
in  the  treasury  department. 

He  was  a  contributor  to  the  Knickerbocker  and  other  mag- 
azines in  1846,  and  two  years  later  published  "  Peter  Schlemihl 
in  America  ;"  following  this  story  of  fashion  and  folly,  in 
1855,  with  "Modern  Pilgrims,"  showing  the  improvements 
in  travel  and  the  newest  methods  of  reaching  the  "  Celestial 
City."  In  1856,  he  published  "Marrying  too  late, — a  Tale 
designed  to  illustrate  God's  Providence  in  the  Relations  of 
Married    Life,"     and  in    1858  "Future  Life:    or    Scenes  in 

'  Newburyport  Public  librarj'. 

■^  Advertisement  in  Newburyport  Herald,  December  22,  1826. 

••  Newburyport  Herald,  May  11,  1827.  See  Poets  of  Essex  County,  pages  45-47. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  3x5 

Another  World."  The  title  of  the  last-named  book  was 
changed  to  "  The  Gates  Wide  Open  :  or  Scenes  in  Another 
World,"  when  the  second  edition  was  printed,  in  1869,  after 
Miss  Phelps  had  published  "Gates  Ajar." 

During  the  last  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Wood  was  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  Newbury  port  Herald  under  the  pseudonym 
of  "■  Peter  Schlemihl."  He  died  in  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  August 
24,  1870. 

Charles  T.  Woodman,  son  of  Joseph  H.  and  Hannah 
(Bartlett)  Woodman,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  13, 
1802.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a  baker  in  Wilmington,  Mass., 
and  was  afterwards  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  in  Weare,  N. 
H.  Becoming  dissipated,  he  wandered  from  town  to  town  in 
search  of  employment,  and  was  reduced  to  extreme  poverty. 
In  November,  1841,  he  returned  to  Newburyport,  and  was 
for  several  months  an  inmate  of  the  almshouse.  In  April, 
1842,  he  signed  the  pledge  of  the  Washingtonian  Total 
Abstinence  society,  and  began  his  career  as  a  temperance 
lecturer  in  Phenix  hall,  Newburyport. 

He  published,  in  1843,  "The  Narrative  of  Charles  T. 
Woodman,  a  Reformed  Inebriate,  written  by  himself." 

William  Lloyd  Garrison,  son  of  Abijah  and  Lanny 
(Lloyd)  Garrison,  was  born  December  10,  1805,  in  a  house 
that  is  still  standing"  on  School  street,  in  Newburyport.  When 
only  thirteen  years  of  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  Ephraim 
W.  Allen,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Newburyport  Herald, 
and  for  seven  years  was  busily  engaged  in  learning  the  trade 
of  a  printer.  In  1826,  he  established  and  published,  for  six 
months,  '*  The  PVee  Press,"  a  weekly  newspaper,  independent 
in  politics,  but  frank  and  honest  in  the  discussion  of  the  ques- 
tions of  the  day.  With  the  limited  means  at  his  command 
he  was  unable  to  continue  the  publication  of  this  paper,  and 
removed  to  Boston,  where  he  found  employment  as  a  journey- 
man printer.     In  January,  1828,  he  was  editor  of  "  The  Na- 


A  UTI/ORS,  AR  TISTS  AND  ENGRA  VERS  3 1  7 

tional  Philanthropist,"  pubhshed  in  that  city  and  "  devoted 
to  the  suppression  of  intemperance  and  its  kindred  vices  and 
to  the  promotion  of  industry,  education  and  morahty."  In 
the  month  of  October  following,  he  had  charge  of  "The 
Journal  of  the  Times,"  established  in  Bennington,  Vermont, 
to  advocate  the  re-election  of  John  Quincy  Adams  over  An- 
drew Jackson,  and  in  1829  was  associated  with  Benjamin 
Lundy  in  the  publication  of  the  "  Genius  of  Universal  Eman- 
cipation," in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  where  he  was  convicted  and 
confined  forty-nine  days  in  jail  for  publishing  certain  alleged 
libelous  statements  relating  to  the  transportation  of  slaves  in 
a  vessel  owned  by  Francis  Todd  of  Newburyport. 

After  his  release  from  jail  Mr.  Garrison  returned  to  Boston, 
and,  with  the  assistance  of  Isaac  Knapp,  published  the  first 
number  of  "The  Liberator"  January  i,  183 1.  His  subse- 
quent career  as  editor,  publisher  and  anti-slavery  reformer 
has  been  described  by  his  children,  in  four  large  volumes,  to 
which  the  reader  is  referred  for  further  information.  The 
half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page  is  taken  from  a  brief 
sketch  of  his  life  published  in  "  Ould  Newbury :'"  Historical 
and  Biographical  Sketches. 

Mr.  Garrison  died  May  24,  1879,  at  the  residence  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Henry  Villard,  in  New  York  City,  and  was 
buried  on  the  twenty-eighth  of  May  following  in  Forest  Hills 
cemetery  at  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

William  Stoodlv  Bartlet,  son  of  William  and  Betsey 
(Stoodly)  Bartlet,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  8,  1809. 
He  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church  in  1836,  and  graduated  at  Trinity  college  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  in  1840.  He  was  afterwards  rector  of  Imman- 
uel  church,  Little  Falls,  New  York,  St.  Andrew's  church, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  and  St.  Luke's  church,  Chelsea,  Mass. 

He  married  Hannah  M.  Stevens  of  Pittston,  .Maine,  in 
June,  1841.  She  died  in  1870;  and,  P'ebruary  22,  1873,  he 
married  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Somerby. 


3i8  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 

He  was  the  author  of  "The  Frontier  Missionary:  A  Me- 
moir of  the  Hfe  of  the  Rev.  Jacob  Bailey,  A.  M.,  Missionary 
at  Pownalborough,  Maine,  CornwalHs  and  Annapohs,  N.  S.," 
published  in  1853,  and  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  National 
Quarterly  Review,  the  Church  Monthly  and  other  religious 
and  historical  publications. 

He  died  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  December  12,  1883,  leaving  a 
widow,  but  no  children. 

Thomas  March  Clark,  son  of  Thomas  March  and  Re- 
becca (Wheelwright)  Clark,  was  born  in  Newburyport  July 
4,  18 1 2,  and  graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1831.  He  studied 
for  the  ministry  at  Princeton,  and  after  completing  his  edu- 
cation preached  for  a  few  months  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
meeting-house  in  Newburyport,  and  afterwards  in  the  Old 
South  meeting-house  in  Boston.  November  6,  1836,  he  was 
ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church, 
and  was  installed  rector  of  Grace  church,  Boston.  He  was 
afterwards  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  church  in  Philadelphia, 
assistant  minister  in  Trinity  church,  Boston,  and  rector  of 
Christ  church,  Hartford.  In  1854,  he  was  elected  bishop  of 
Rhode  Island,  and  on  the  sixth  of  December  was  consecrated 
in  Grace  church.  Providence.  On  the  death  of  Bishop  Wil- 
liams, in  February,  1899,  he  became  by  official  seniority  the 
presiding  bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in 
America. 

For  many  years  he  was  an  interesting  and  popular  lyceum 
lecturer,  and  a  regular  contributor  to  the  New  York  Ledger. 
He  published,  in  1852,  "Lectures  to  Young  Men  on  the 
Formation  of  Character";  in  i860,  "The  Efficient  Sunday 
School  Teacher  "  ;  in  1869,  "  The  Primary  Truths  of  Relig- 
ion"; in  1888,  "Readings  and  Prayers  for  aid  in  Private 
Devotions";  and  in  1895,   "Reminiscences." 

He  also  published,  anonymously,  a  story  entitled  "  John 
Whopper,  the  Newsboy,"  which  has  recently  been  re-printed 
with  his  name  on  the  title-page. 


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319 


On  man)-  public  occasions  Bishop  Clark  was  the  guest  of 
the  city  of  Newbury  port.  At  the  presentation  of  the  statue 
of  Washington,  February  22,  1879,  he  was  the  orator  of  the 
day,  and  June  21,  1890,  he  delivered  an  eloquent  and  appro- 
priate address  at  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  building,   on  State  street. 


RIGHT    REV.    THOMAS    M.    CLARK,    1).   I). 


He  married,  October  3,  1838,  Caroline,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Harriet  (Lang)  Howard  of  Boston.  She  died 
August  15,  1884,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  adjoining 
St.  Mary's  church,  South  Portsmouth,  R.  I.  He  died  at  his 
summer  residence  in  Middletown  September  7,  1903,  and 
was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife  in  the  cemetery  at  South 
Portsmouth. 


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HTSTOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  7 


RuFUS  Wheelwright  Clark,  son  of  Thomas  March  and 
Rebecca  (Wheelwric^ht )  Clark,  was  born  in  Newburyport 
December  17,  18 13,  and  graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1838. 
He  was  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  from  1841  to  1842,  and  of  the  North  church 
in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  from  1842  to  185 1.  He  married,  in 
June,  1843,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  C.  and  Margaret 
(Muse)  Walton  of  Alexandria,  Va.  From  185  i  to  1857,  he 
was  pastor  of  the  Maverick  church  in  East  Boston,  Mass., 
and  of  the  South  Congregational  church  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
from  1857  to  1862.  He  accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Re- 
formed (Dutch)  church  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  1862,  and  re- 
mained pastor  of  that  church  until  his  death,  August  9, 
1886. 

He  published  many  sermons  and  public  addresses  in  pam- 
phlet form,  and  several  volumes  of  essays  and  biographical 
sketches,  as  follows  : — 

Lectures  to  Young  Men  (two  volumes),  1842. 

Memoirs  of  Rev.  John  E.  Emerson,  1851. 

Heaven  and  its  Scriptural  Emblems,  18153. 

Life  Scenes  of  the  Messiah,  iS54- 

Romanism  in  America,  1854. 

The  African  Slave  Trade,  1 860. 

Heroes  of  Albany  (i 861-1865),  1867. 

The  Bible  and  the  School  Fund,  1870. 

George  Henry  Clark,  son  of  Thomas  March  and  Re- 
becca (Wheelwright)  Clark,  was  born  in  Newburyport  No- 
vember 7,  1 8 19,  and  graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1843.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  priesthood  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church  in  1846,  and  was  rector  of  All  Saints  church  in 
Worcester,  Mass.,  from  1847  to  1849.  He  married  Lucia 
Blake  December  6,  1 849,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Savannah, 
Ga.,  where  he  was  rector  of  St.  John's  church  from  1853  to 
1 86 1.  His  wife  died  February  14,  i860,  and  the  next  year 
he  accepted  a  call  to  Christ  church,   Hartford,   Conn.,   where 


A  ( '77I0RS,  Ah'  TISTS  AND  RXGRA  VERS  3  2  i 

he  officiated  for  six  )ears.  He  married,  ()ctol)er  3,  1865,  Mrs. 
Susan  Sanderson  Perkins,  for  his  second  wife,  and  continued 
to  reside  in  Hartford  until  his  death,  March  31,  1906. 

During  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  was  deeply  interested  in 
the  study  of  historical  questions,  and  was  an  active  member 
of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society.  His  contributions  to 
literature  include  a  life  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  published  in  1893. 

Samuel  Adams  Clark,  son  of  Thomas  March  and  Re- 
becca (Wheelwright)  Clark,  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  January 
27,  1822,  and  was  educated  at  Andover,  Mass.,  and  at  the 
Theological  seminary  in  Alexandria,  Va.  In  1848,  he  was 
rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Adx'ent  in  Philadelphia,  and  on 
the  twenty-sixth  of  October  he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  Snowden  and  Elizabeth  Ingersoll  (Bayard)  Henry  of  that 
city.  In  1856,  he  accepted  a  call  to  St.  John's  church,  in 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  where  he  continued  to  officiate  until  his 
death,  January  28,  1875. 

He  published,  in  1846,  "  A  Memoir  of  Albert  W.  Day," 
and,  in  18:^7,  the  "■  History  of  St.  John's  Church,  Elizabeth, 
N.J." 

Albert  Pike,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Andrews) 
Pike,  was  born  in  Boston  December  29,  1809.  His  parents 
removed  to  Nevvburyport  in  18 14,  and  for  ten  or  twelve 
years  after  that  date  he  was  a  pupil  in  the  primary  and 
grammar  schools  of  the  town.  He  afterward  entered  Har- 
vard college,  but  his  limited  means  did  not  allow  him  to 
remain  there  long  enough  to  complete  his  education. 

In  1830,  he  taught  a  private  school  in  Newburyport,  and 
subsequently  went  to  P"airhaven,  and  thence  to  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  walking  most  of  the  way.  In  1833,  he  was  the 
owner  and  editor  of  the  Arkansas  Adv^ocate,  a  newspaper 
published  in  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  where  he  resided  for 
more  than  thirty  years,  and  married  Mary  Ann  Hamilton 
October  lo,  1834. 


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He  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1836,  devoting 
himself  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  until  the  beginning 
of  the  Mexican  war,  when  he  was  commissioned  captain  of  a 
company  of  cavalry  and  served  with  distinction  in  the  Amer- 
ican army  on  the  Rio  Grande.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  but  retained  his  residence  in  Little  Rock,  Ar- 
kansas. 

He  published,  in  1834,  "Prose  Sketches  and  Poems,"  in 
1839,  "  Hymns  to  the  Gods,"  in  1854,  a  collection  of  poems 
under  the  title  of  "  Nugae,"  and  subsequently  the  decisions 
of  the  supreme  court  of  Arkansas,  in  five  volumes. 

In  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  brigadier-general  in  the  Confed- 
erate army,  and  had  command  of  several  regiments,  or  bat- 
talions, of  Cherokee  Indians  in  the  battles  of  Pea  Ridge  and 
Elkhorn.  After  the  defeat  of  the  Confederate  forces  and  the 
surrender  of  Lee  at  Appomattox,  in  Virginia,  General  Pike 
was  for  two  or  three  years  editor  of  the  Memphis  Appeal,  a 
newspaper  published  in  Memphis,  Tennessee.  In  1868,  he 
removed  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  became  prominent 
in  Masonic  organizations,  and  was  made  grand  commander  of 
the  supreme  council  of  the  thirty-third  degree  and  grand 
commander  of  the  royal  order  of  Scottish  Rite  Masons.' 

He  died  in  Washington  April  2,  1891.  A  collection  of  his 
poems,  with  a  brief  biographical  sketch,  was  published  in 
Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  in  1900. 

Lucy  Hooper,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Rachel  (Whitte- 
more)  Hooper,  was  born  in  Newburyport  P'ebruary  6,  1814.- 
She  wrote  and  published  "  Some  lines  on  the  closing  of  the 
Sunday  School  in  St.  Paul's  Church,"  and  a  few  prose 
sketches  of  unusual  merit  previous  to  her  removal  with  her 
parents  and  other  members  of  the  family  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 

^  The  Poets  of  Essex  County,  page  131. 

-  See  genealogical  account  of  the  family  of  Joseph  Hooper  on  page  197. 


A  UTIIORS,  AK  TIS TS  AND  ENGRA  VERS  323 

in  1830.  After  that  date,  she  was  a  frequent  contributor  to 
the  Long  Island  Star  and  other  newspapers  and  popular 
magazines  of  that  day. 

She  published,  in  1841,  "  Scenes  from  Real  Life  and  other 
American  Tales,"  and  an  essay  on  "  Domestic  Happiness." 
"The  Lady's  Book  of  Flowers  and  Poetry"  was  prepared 
for  publication  soon  after  that  date,  but  the  manuscript  was  not 
placed  in  the  printer's  hands  until  ten  or  twelve  years  later. 

Miss  Hooper  died  of  pulmonary  consumption  August  i, 
1 84 1,  and  was  buried  in  Wallabout  cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
but  was  subsequently  removed  to  Evergreen  cemetery,  near 
Bushwick,  where  other  members  of  her  family  are  buried.' 

The  complete  poetical  works  of  Lucy  Hooper,  with  a 
memoir  by  John  Keese,  were  published  in  New  York  in  1842, 
and  a  second  edition  in  1848.- 

She  possessed  the  soul  of  a  true  poetess,  and  although  her  brief  life, 
domestic  affliction,  and  ill  health  prevented  her  from  doing  full  justice  to 
her  powers,  many  of  her  effusions  bear  the  stamp  of  true,  feminine 
genius. 

Whittier  saw  her  frequently  during  her  residence  in  New- 
buryport,  and  published  the  following  lines  soon  after  her 
burial  in  Wallabout  cemetery  : — 

They've  laid  thee  laidst  the  household  graves, 

Where  father,  brother,  sister  lie  ; 
Below  thee  sweep  the  dark  blue  waves. 

Above  thee  bends  the  summer  sky. 
Thy  own  loved  church  in  sadness  read 
Her  solemn  ritual  o'er  thy  head, 
And  blessed  and  hallowed  with  her  prayer 
The  turf  laid  lightly  o'er  thee  there. 
That  church,  whose  rites  and  liturgy, 
Sublime  and  old,  were  truth  to  thee, 

'  Evergreen  eemeteiy  was  incorporated  in  1849.  Soon  after  that  date  Wallabout 
cemetery  was  discontinued  as  a  place  of  burial.  It  now  forms  a  part  of  the  Brooklyn 
navy  yard.  The  Hooper  lot  in  Evergreen  cemetery  is  on  Greenwood  avenue,  near 
the  chapel. 

■■^  See  Poets  of  Essex  County,  pages  80-83. 


324  I^I^  TORY  OF  NE IV B  UR  \  'FOR  F 

Undoubted  to  thy  bosom  taken, 

As  symbols  of  a  faith  unshaken. 

Even  I,  of  simpler  views,  could  feel 

The  beauty  of  thy  trust  and  zeal ; 

And,  owning  not  thy  creed,  could  see 

How  deep  a  truth  it  seemed  to  thee. 

And  how  thy  fervent  heart  had  thrown 

O'er  all,  a  coloring  of  its  own, 

And  kindled  up,  intense  and  warm, 

A  life  in  every  rite  and  form, 

As,  when  on  Chebar's  banks  of  old 

The  Hebrew's  gorgeous  vision  rolled, 

A  spirit  filled  the  vast  machine, 

A  life  "  within  the  wheels  "  was  seen. 

Farewell '     A  little  time,  and  we 

Who  knew  thee  well,  and  loved  thee  here. 
One  after  one  shall  follow  thee. 

As  pilgrims  through  the  gate  of  fear, 
.  Which  opens  on  eternity. 
Yet  shall  we  cherish  not  the  less 

All  that  is  left  our  hearts  meanwhile  ; 
The  memory  of  thy  loveliness 

Shall  round  our  weary  pathway  smile, 
Like  moonlight  when  the  sun  has  set, 
A  sweet  and  tender  radiance  yet. 
Thoughts  of  thy  clear-eyed  sense  of  duty, 

Thy  generous  scorn  of  all  things  wrong. 
The  truth,  the  strength,  the  graceful  beauty 

Which  blended  in  thy  song. 
All  lovely  things,  by  thee  beloved. 

Shall  whisper  to  our  hearts  of  thee  ; 
These  green  hills,  where  thy  childhood  roved. 

Yon  river  winding  to  the  sea. 
The  sunset  light  of  autumn  eves 

Reflecting  on  the  deep,  still  floods. 
Cloud,  crimson  sky,  and  trembling  leaves 

Of  rainbow-tinted  woods, 
These,  in  our  view,  shall  henceforth  take 
A  tenderer  meaning  for  thy  sake  ; 
And  all  thou  lovedst  of  earth  and  sky 
Seem  sacred  to  thy  memory.' 

1  Whittier's  Complete  Poetical  Works,  pages  174  and  175. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  A.XD  EXGRAVERS  325 

John  B,  Gough  was  born  in  Sandgate,  Kent  county,  Eng- 
land, August  22,  18 1 7.  His  father  was  a  soldier  in  the  Eng- 
lish army,  and  afterwards  coachman  and  servant  to  Rev.  J.  D. 
Glennie,  a  minister  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Sandgate. 

When  nearly  twelve  years  of  age,  young  Gough  sailed 
from  London  in  the  ship  Helen,  with  a  family  who  had 
agreed  to  provide  a  home  for  him  in  America.  He  arrived  in 
New  York  August  3,  1829;  and  subsequently  learned  the 
trade  of  a  book-binder,  but  was  unable  to  secure  steady  em- 
ployment on  account  of  his  intemperate  habits. 

In  January,  1838,  he  came  to  Newburyport,  hoj^ng  to 
restore  his  health  and  avoid  the  temptation  to  drink.  A 
few  months  later  he  shipped  on  a  fishing  vessel  bound  to  the 
bay  of  Chaleur.  Returning  to  Newburyport  in  November 
of  that  year,  he  found  employment  as  a  book-binder  with 
John  G.  Tilton,  John  Gray  and  others. 

In  November,  1838,  he  married  Mary  B.,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and  Abigail  Cheney  of  Newbury,  and  for  several  months 
attended  divine  service  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  Fourth 
Religious  Society  of  Newburyport,  Rev.  Randolph  Campbell, 
pastor. 

He  was  fond  of  convivial  company,  and  frequently  enter- 
tained his  friends  with  popular  songs  and  humorous  stories. 
On  the  eighteenth  of  March,  1839,  he  gave  a  concert  in 
Market  hall,"  which  was  repeated  four  days  later  in  Franklin 
hall,  Amesbury.  Subsequently,  he  was  employed  by  the 
manager  of  a  diorama  and  traveled  from  place  to  place,  for 
several  months,  assisting  in  the  display  of  moving  figures 
supposed  to  represent  soldiers  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill. 


'  The  advertisemenl  of  this  concert  pul)lishe(l  in  the  \ewburyport  Herald  reads 
as  follows:  — 

"  drand  Concert  at  Market  Hall  this  evening.  Mr.  John  H.  (iough  respectfully 
informs  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  Newburyport  and  vicinity  that  he  will  give  a 
concert  at  the  Market  Hall  this  evening,  March  i8th,  on  which  occasion  he  will 
introduce  several  new  and  popular  songs.  He  will  be  assisted  by  a  part  of  the 
Newburyport  Brass  Band,  who  have  been  engaged  by  him  for  the  occasion." 


326  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

In  October,  he  was  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  decided 
to  remain  and  work  at  his  trade  with  the  firm  of  Hutchinson 
&  Crosby,  book-binders.  His  wife  removed  from  Newbury- 
port  to  that  city,  and  died  there,  with  an  infant  daughter,  in 
1840. 

Overwhehned  with  grief,  Mr.  Gough  yiekled  to  the  tempta- 
tions of  the  saloon,  neglected  his  work,  lost  his  situation,  and 
soon  found  himself  homeless  and  friendless.  After  months 
of  reckless  dissipation,  he  sio^ned  the  pledge,  and  in  October, 
1842,  began  his  career  as  a  temperance  lecturer,  visiting  the 
principal  towns  and  cities  of  New  England,  and  speaking  to 
large  audiences  with  unusual  power  and  vigor. 

November  24,  1843,  he  married  Mary  E.  Whitcomb  of 
Boylston,  Mass.,  and  several  years  later  visited  England,  Scot- 
land and  Ireland,  where  his  lectures  on  temperance  and  kin- 
dred subjects  were  received  with  unbounded  enthusiasm  and 
tumultuous  applause. 

He  published  his  autobiography  in  1845,  "^^^  ^t  later  dates 
other  books  with  titles  as  follows:  "Orations,"  1854;  sec- 
ond, and  much  enlarged,  edition  of  his  "Autobiography,"  1869  ; 
"Temperance,"  1870;  "  Temperance  Lectures,"  1875  ;  "Sun- 
light and  Shadows,  or  Gleanings  from  my  Life  Work,"  1880  ; 
"  Platform  Echoes,  or  Living  Truths  of  Head  and  Heart," 
1886. 

Mr.  Gough  died,  while  on  a  lecturing  tour,  in  Frankfort, 
Pennsylvania,  February  18,  1886. 

Mary  Euphemia  Vale,  daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Hepsibah 
(Johnstone)  Vale,  was  born  in  Hastings,  England,  in  181 7. 
She  came  with  her  father,  mother  and  other  members  of  the 
family  to  New  York  in  1823,  and  married,  in  that  city,  in 
1842,  Mayo  G.  Smith,  son  of  Foster  Smith.  Soon  after  her 
marriage  she  came  with  her  husband  to  Newburyport,  and 
lived  for  some  months  in  the  family  of  her  father-in-law,  on 
Smith's  court,  removing  later  to  a  dwelling  house  on  Essex 
street,  where  her  husband  had  an  ofBce  fitted  up  for   his  use 


AUTHORS,   ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  327 

as  a  surgeon  dentist.  The  children  by  this  marriage  were 
Mayo  Vale  Smith,  born  June  25,  1844/ and  Euphemia  Smith, 
born  September  20,  1848.' 

After  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California,  in  1 849,  Doctor 
Smith  went  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and  remained  there  seven 
years.  During  his  absence  Mrs.  Smith  was  busily  engaged 
in  literary  work.  She  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  New- 
buryport  Herald,  editor  of  the  Saturday  Evening  Union,  and 
author  of  a  History  of  Newbury,  published  in  1854.  In 
1857,  she  removed  to  New  York,  and  was  there  granted  a 
decree  of  divorce  from  her  husband. 

Two  or  three  years  later,  she  married,  in  New  York,  Dr. 
D.  S.  Blake,  who  had  been  for  ten  or  filteen  years  a  surgeon 
dentist  in  Newburyport.  After  her  second  marriage,  she 
resided  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  published,  in  1874,  "Arctic 
Experiences,  containing  G.  E.  Tyson's  wonderful  drift  in  the 
ice  floe,  a  history  of  the  Polaris  Expedition,  the  cruise  of 
the  Tigress,  and  rescue  of  the  Polaris  survivors  ;  "  in  1894, 
'*  The  universal  name,  or  one  hundred  songs  to  Mary  ;"  and 
in  1 90 1,  "  History  of  the  Tammany  Society,  or  Columbian 
Order,  from  its  organization  to  the  present  time." 

Mrs.  Euphemia  (Vale-Smith)  Blake  died  in  Brooklyn 
October  21,  1904. 

George  J.  L.  Colby,  son  of  Joseph  Lunt  and  Hannah 
(Fowler)  (^olby,  was  born  in  Newbury,  near  the  corner  of 
Water  and  Marlborough  streets,  January  12,  18 19.  He  at- 
tended the  district  school  at  "  Trayneing  Green,"  and  after- 
wards was  a  student  in  the  Maine  W'esleyan  Seminary,  at 
Kent's  hill,  Readfield,  Maine,  where  he  graduated  with  honor, 
but  did  not  enter  college  on  account  of   ill  health. 

When  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  of  age  he  taught  school 
in  West  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  in  1839  published  a  newspaper 

^  Authorized  by  the  court  of  Kings  county,  N.  V.,  to  take  the  name  of  Sychiey 
Vale  Lowell.     He  is  at  the  present  time  a  counselor-at-la\v  in  New  York  City. 
^  Euphemia  Smith  died  August  9,  185 1. 


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HIS!  OR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


in  Lowell.  Three  years  later,  he  was  editor  of  an  anti- 
slavery  paper  in  the  town  of  Amesbury,  lecturing  occasionally 
in  New  Hampshire  and  adjoining  states  on  "  Sla^•ery," 
"Temperance"  and  other  topics  of  the  day. 

In  1846,  he  removed  to  Newburyport,  and  for  several  years 
was  a  clerk  in  the  post-ofifice.  February  22,  1847,  he  mar- 
ried, at  Francestown,  N.  H.,  Sarah  Arabella,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Persis  Matilda  (Ladd)  Thompson.  Soon  after 
that  date  he  rented  a  house  on  Marlborough  street,  and  after- 
ward on  Purchase  street,  Newburyport,  where  he  resided 
until  1858,  when  he  purchased  a  two-story  dwelling  house  on 
the  southeasterly  side  of  Court  street,  near  High  street,  that 
he  owned  and  occupied  for  more  than  twenty  years. 

He  was  associated  with  William  H.  Huse  in  the  publication 
of  the  Daily  Evening  Union,  and  when  that  paper  was  dis- 
continued, in  1854,  he  became  editor,  and,  in  1856,  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  Newburyport  Herald. 

August  27,  1866,  he  was  appointed  postmaster,  and  held 
that  of^ce  for  nearly  three  years  while  Andrew  Johnson  was 
president  of  the  United  States.  In  November,  1869,  he  was 
elected  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  session 
beginning  January  5,  1870,  and  subsequently  re-elected  for 
the  session  beginning  January  4,  1871. 

He  was  editor  and  one  of  the  publishers  of  the  Merrimac 
Valley  Visitor  from  1872  until  it  was  discontinued  in  1887. 
In  addition  to  his  editorial  duties,  he  wrote,  in  1878,  the  his- 
tory of  Newbury,  Newburyport  and  West  Newbury,  pub- 
lished by  C.  Y .  Jewett  &  Co.,  of  Boston,  in  the  Standard 
History  of  Essex  County. 

In  January,  1880,  he  was  elected  county  commissioner, 
which  office  he  held  until  January,  1883.  In  November  of 
that  year  he  was  re-elected,  and  served  for  three  years  from 
January,  1884.  Many  of  the  biographical  sketches  in  the 
second  volume  of  the  History  of  Essex  County,  edited  by  D. 
Hamilton  Hurd  and  published  by  J.  W.  Lewis  &  Co.,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, in  1888,  were  written  by  Mr.  Colby. 


AUTITOKS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  329 

For  two  or  three  months  he  was  editor  of  the  Saturday 
Night,  a  newspaper  established  in  Newburyport  in  March, 
1 890,  but  was  unable  to  devote  much  time  to  the  work  on 
account  of  ill  health.  His  wife  died  in  West  Newbury  Sep- 
tember 12,  1 87 1.'  He  died  at  his  residence  in  Central  place, 
Newburyport,  November  30,  1890.  Funeral  services  were 
held  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Religious  Society,  on 
the  third  of  December,  Rev.  Samuel  C.  Beane  and  Rev. 
Samuel  J.  Spalding  officiating. 

Ben  :  Peri.ev  Poore,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Perley 
(Dodge)  Poore,  was  born  in  Newburyport  November  2,  1820. 
He  attended  school  at  Dummer  Academy,  and  was  editor  and 
publisher  of  a  newspaper  in  Athens,  Ga.,  before  he  was  twen- 
ty-one years  of  age.  In  1841  he  went  to  Brussels,  as  an 
attache  of  the  American  legation,  remaining  there  three 
years,  and  subsequently  to  Paris,  where  he  copied,  for  the 
state  of  Massachusetts,  ten  large  volumes  of  valuable  manu- 
script papers  relating  to  the  American  Rev^olution. 

June  12,  1849,  he  married  Virginia,  daughter  of  Francis  and 
Mary  (Thompson)  Dodge  of  Georgetown,  D.  C.,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  after  that  date  was  engaged  in  editorial  work  in 
Boston,  residing  during  the  summer  months  at  Indian  hill  in 
West  Newbury,  Mass.  In  1854  he  went  to  Washington,  D. 
C.,  as  special  correspondent  of  the  Boston  Journal,  and  sub- 
sequently held,  for  more  than  twenty  years,  the  office  of  clerk 
of  the  committees,  appointed  by  the  United  States  senate,  on 
pnnting  and  foreign  relations. 

He  was  a  strong  and  vigorous  supporter  of  the  Whig 
party  and  of  Millard  Fillmore  in  the  presidential  election  of 
1856,  and  in  a  spirit  of  raillery  and  jest  agreed  to  wheel  a 
barrel  of  apples  from  West  Newbury  to  Boston  if  the  Whig 
candidate  failed  to  receive  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  for 
president  in   the  state  of    Massachusetts.     To    his    surprise, 

'  At  that  date  Mr.  Colby  had  a  legal  residence  in  Newburyport,  but  occupied  a 
dwelling  house  in  West  Newbury,  near  Indian  Hill,  during  the  summer  months. 


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HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


however,  John  C.  Fremont  carried  all  the  New  England  states. 
With  characteristic  energy  and  promptness,  Major  Poore 
started  from  Indian  hill,  on  the  fifth  of  November,  with  his 
barrel  of  apples,  and  at  mid-day  November  7,  1856,  was 
greeted  with  cheers  and  the  waving  of  flags  by  thousands  of 
spectators  as  he  marched  up  State  street  on  his  way  to  the 


ben:  perley  pooke. 


Tremont  house  in  Boston,  escorted  by  a  cc^mpany  of  Massa- 
chusetts volunteer  militia  and  a  band  of  music  playing  the 
popular  airs  of  the  day. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  major  and  after- 
wards lieutenant-colonel  of  the  sixth  Massachusetts  regiment, 


A  CTHOKS,  AR  TISTS  AND  ENGRA  VERS  33  i 

serving  under  the  command  of  Gen.  lienjaniin  F.  Butler,  in 
Maryland,  in  1861.  Resuming  his  duties  at  the  national 
capitol  in  December  of  that  year,  he  compiled  and  published 
the  •'  Congressional  Directory,"  and  subsequently  prepared 
for  the  press  several  volumes  of  public  documents,  including 
"  Colonial  Charters  and  other  Organic  Laws  of  the  United 
States,"  "  Federal  and  State  Constitutions,"  "  Our  Diplo- 
matic Relations  "  and  a  "  Catalogue  of  Government  Publica- 
tions." 

In  addition  to  his  work  as  a  journalist  and  as  clerk  of  the 
printing  committee  of  the  United  States  senate.  Major  Poore 
devoted  considerable  time  to  the  collection  of  rare  books, 
autographs  and  Revolutionary  relics,  and  occasionally  wrote 
interesting  biographical  sketches  for  the  popular  magazines 
and  reviews  of  the  day. 

As  early  as  1848  he  published  "The  Rise  and  Fall  of 
Louis  Philippe,"  and  several  years  later  "  The  Early  Life  of 
Napoleon."  In  1882  he  wrote  "The  Life  and  PubHc  Ser- 
vices of  (jen.  Ambrose  E.  Burnside  ;  "  in  1884,  "The  Life 
of  Hon.  John  Alexander  Logan;"  in  1885,  "The  Life  of 
Gen.  Ulysses  S.  Grant,"  and  in  1886,  "  Reminiscences  of 
Sixty  Years  in  the  National  Metropohs." 

Major  Poore  died  May  30,  1887,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
His  widow,  Virginia  (Dodge)  Poore,  died  in  that  city  March 
10,  1894.  Both  were  buried  in  Walnut  Hill  cemetery,  West 
Newbury,  Mass." 

Sarah  Anna  Emery,  the  only  child  of  David  and  Sarah 
(Smith)  Emery,  was  born  in  Newburyport  November  29, 
1 82 1.  After  completing  her  education  she  taught  a  private 
school  for  several  years,  and  subsequently  devoted  consider- 
able time  and  attention  to  literary  work.  She  published  three 
volumes  of  local  historical   interest,  entitled  Three  Genera- 

'  For  further  details  see  "  ( )ul<l  Newbury:''  Tlistorical  and  Kiographical  Sketch- 
es, pages  352-356,  and  History  of  Essex  County,  compiled  l)y  D.  Hamilton  Hurd, 
volume  n,  pages  1872-1876. 


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tions  (1872),  Reminiscences  of  a  Nonagenarian  (1879),  and 
My  Generation  (1893). 

She  died  in  Newburyport  May  13,  1907,  unmarried. 

James  Parton  was  born  in  Canterbury,  England,  February 
9,  1822.  His  father  died  in  1826,  and  the  next  year  he  came 
with  his  mother  to  New  York  City,  where  he  attended  school, 
completing  his  education  in  a  private  academy  at  White 
Plains,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  teacher.  Removing  to 
Philadelphia,  a  year  or  two  later  he  was  associated  with 
Samuel  Edwards,  and  had  charge  of  the  English  department 
in  a  school  established  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  boys  for 
college,  but  returned  to  New  York  City  in  1847,  and  devoted 
his  time  and  attention  to  literary  work. 

He  married  in  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  January  5,  1856, 
Sarah  Payson  (Willis)  Eldredge,  a  widow  with  two  children. 
She  died  October  10,  1872.  Soon  after  the  last-named  date 
Mr.  Parton  came  to  Newburyport,  and  in  1875  purchased  a 
dwelling  house  on  the  southeasterly  corner  of  High  and 
Oakland  streets.  He  married,  February  3,  1876,  Ellen  Willis 
Eldredge,  Rev.  Joseph  May,  pastor  of  the  First  Religious 
Society,  officiating.  The  marriage  ceremony  was  repeated 
in  New  York  City  February  10,  1876,  Rev.  Stephen  H. 
Tyng,  D.  D.,  officiating. 

During  his  residence  in  Newburyport  he  published,  in  1877, 
'*  Caricature  and  other  Comic  Art  ;"  in  1878,  "The  French 
Parnassus  ;  "  in  1881,  "  Life  of  Voltaire  ;  "  in  1883,  "  Noted 
Women  of  Europe  and  America;"  in  1884,  "Captains  of 
Industry;"  in  1885,  "Princes,  Authors  and  Statesmen  of 
our  Time;  "  and,  in  1891,  the  second  volume  of  the  "Cap- 
tains of   Industry." 

Mr.  Parton  died  October  17,  1891,  and  was  buried  in  Oak 
Hill  cemetery.' 

'  "  Ould  Newlniry:"    Historical  and  Kiographical  Sketches,  pages  687-692. 


JAMK>    I'Ak'loN. 


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William  Cleaves  Todd,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Betsey 
(Kimball)  Todd,  was  born  in  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  February  i6, 
1823.  He  was  for  ten  years  principal  of  the  Female  high 
school  in  Newburyport.  He  wrote  and  published  in  the 
magazines  of  the  day  biographical  sketches  of  Daniel  Web- 
ster, Caleb  Cushing,  Thomas  Hart  Benton,  Timothy  Dexter 
and  others.  These  sketches  were  collected  and  published  in 
1 901  in  a  volume  entitled  "  Biographical  and  other  Articles." 

He  gave  fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  support  of  the 
reading  room  connected  with  the  Newburyport  Public  library, 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars  for  the  erection  of  a  new  building 
for  the  Anna  Jaques  hospital.' 

He  died,  unmarried,  in  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  June  26,  1903. 

Anne  Gardner  Hale,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Jane 
(Hoyt)  Hale,  was  born  in  Newburyport  August  5,  1823. 
She  has  published  two  volumes  of  short  stories,  several  es- 
says and  book  reviews  in  pamphlet  form,  a  volume  of  poems 
in  1902,  and  a  popular  novel,  in  1907,  entitled  "The  Closed 
Balcony."  She  owns  and  occupies  a  dwelling  house  on  the 
northwesterly  corner  of  Market  and  Washington  streets.^ 

William  Warner  Caldwell,  son  of  John  and  Eleanor 
(Orne)  Caldwell,  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  28, 
1823.  He  graduated  at  Bowdoin  in  1843,  and  was  a  drug- 
gist in  Newburyport  from  1845  to  1881,  when  he  retired 
from  business.  He  published  a  volume  of  poetry  entitled 
"  Poems,  Original  and  Translated,"  and  more  than  fifty  of 
his  German  lyric  translations  have  been  set  to  music  by  John 
W.  Tufts  for  the  "  Normal  Music  Course."  He  died  in 
Newburyport  October  23,  1908.^ 

Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson,  born  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  in  1826,  began  his   ministerial   and   literary  career  in 

1  For  further  details  see  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  243 
note  and   526  note. 

''■  See  Poets  of  Essex  County,  page  66. 
•*  See  Poets  of  Essex  County,  page  32. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  335 

Newburyport.  He  was  pastor  of  the  First  Religious  church 
and  society  from  September,  1847,  to  September,  1849,  and 
retained  his  residence  on  Pond  street,  devoting  his  time  to 
the  study  of  Enghsh  Hterature  and  to  hterary  work  until 
1852,  when  he  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass. 

Joshua  Danfortm  Robinson,  son  of  Robert  and  Lucy  P. 
(Danforth)  Robinson,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in 
September,  1829.  His  parents  removed  to  Newburyport 
when  he  was  only  six  or  eight  years  old.  In  1844,  he  was  a 
puiiil  in  the  English  high  school,  then  in  charge  of  David  P. 
Page,  principal.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  185  i, 
and  was  afterwards  employed  as  instructor  in  the  academy  at 
Milton,  Mass.,  for  twelve  months.  He  married,  in  Newbury- 
port, November  27,  185 1,  Eliza  Jane  Lovett,  daughter  of 
William  H.  and  Eliza  Ann  (Chamberlin)  Lovett ;  and  in  1853, 
in  company  with  his  father  and  grandfather,  under  the  firm- 
nanie  of  Robert  Robinson  &  Co.,  began  the  manufacture  of 
boots  and  shoes  in  a  small  work-shop  in  Newburyport,  with  a 
salesroom  in  Boston. 

He  was  elected  a  representative  to  the  General  Court  for 
the  sessions  beginning  January  3,  1855,  and  January  2,  1856, 
aiid  wrote  and  published  several  poems  of  great  merit ;  one 
of  them,  entitled  '•  The  Little  Boy  that  Died,"  had  a  wide 
circulation,  and  was  attributed,  by  many  newspapers  and  mag- 
azines, to  the  pen  of  Doctor  Chalmers. 

With  his  wife  and  other  members  of  his  family,  he  removed 
toTe.xas  in  1857,  and  died  of  cholera  in  San  Antonio  Septem- 
ber I  5,    1866. 

Joseph  Eoward  Babson,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Eliza 
Babson,  was  born  May  27,  1830,  in  a  three-story  dwelling 
house  still  standing  on  Tyng   street,    Newburyport.'      He  at- 

'  Joseph  Babson  of  Xevvbiiryport  married  Sarah  EHza  Woodbury  of  CJloucester 
July  10,  1828.  He  died  November  7,  1829,  six  months  before  his  son,  Joseph 
Edward  Babson,   was  born. 


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tended  the  grammar  school  on  Kent  street,  Joseph  Williams, 
master,  and  the  high  school  at  the  southeasterly  end  of  Bart- 
let  Mall,  Charles  C.  Dame,  master. 

When  only  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  of  age,  he  was  a  clerk 
in  a  grocery  store  kept  by  Parker  Roberts,  on  the  corner  of 
Market  square  and  Liberty  street,  and  in  December,  1 849, 
he  opened  a  bookstore  at  No.  6  Pleasant  street,  near  the 
corner  of  State  street.'  "  He  loved  books,  and  drew  habitual 
breath  in  an  atmosphere  of  fine  thought,"  but  lacked  experi- 
ence in  the  art  of  buying  and  selling.  His  stock  in  trade 
was  injured  by  fire  in  1853,  and  he  was  obliged  to  close  his 
business  in  Newburyport  and  accept  a  clerkship  in  a 
bookstore  in  Boston,  living  with  his  widowed  mother,  who 
removed  to  Chelsea.  He  wrote  occasionally  for  the  Boston 
Transcript,  under  the  signature  "Tom  P'olio,"  and  at  a  later 
date  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly.  He 
pubUshed  several  articles  on  Charles  Lamb  and  some  delight- 
ful essays  on  other  topics,  as  follows  : — 

Uncollected  writings  of  Charles  Lamb.- 
The  new  English  edition  of   Lamb"s  Works.3 
On  a  Pair  of  Spectacles.4 
Master  Tread\vell.5 
Kitchen  Common  Sense.*^ 

Mr.  Babson  never  married.  His  mother  died  March  30, 
1 866,  and  three  or  four  years  later  he  removed  to  Melrose, 
where  he  lived  quietly,  visiting  Boston  occasionally  to  meet 
old  friends  and  read  old  books.  He  had  but  few  intimate 
acquaintances,  and  though  somewhat  of  a  recluse  he  was 
cheerful  and  apparently  contented  with  his  condition   in  life. 

'  Newbur^'port  Herald,  June  2,  1850. 

'■^  Atlantic  Monthly,  volume  II,    page  529;    volume  12,    page  401;    volume    14, 
pages  478  and  552. 
3  Atlantic  Monthly,  volume  27,  page  745. 
''  Atlantic  Monthly,  volume  21,  page  534. 
•''  Atlantic  Monthly,  volume  25,  page  699. 
^  Atlantic  Monthly,  volume  31,  page  78. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  337 

Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich,  \\\  an   appreciative  sketch   pubhshed 
in  Scribner's  Magazine  for  September.  1903,  says  : — 

hi  mv  earh'  Boston  days  a  gentle  soul  was  often  to  be  met  with  about 
town,  furtively  haunting  old  book  shops  and  dusty  editorial  rooms,  a 
man  of  ingratiating  simplicity  of  manner,  who  always  spoke  in  a  low, 
hesitating  voice,  with  a  note  of  refinement  in  it.  He  was  a  devout  wor- 
shipper of  Elia,  and  wrote  pleasant,  discursive  essays  smacking  some- 
what of  his  master's  flavor — suggesting  rather  than  imitating  it — which 
he  signed  "  Tom  Folio."  I  forget  how  he  glided  into  my  acquaintance- 
ship ;  doubtless  in  some  way  too  shy  and  elusive  for  remembrance.  I 
never  knew  him  intimatelv,  perhaps  no  one  did,  but  rhe  intercourse  be- 
tween us  was  most  cordial,  and  our  chance  meetings  and  bookish  chats 
extended  over  a  space  of  a  dozen  years. 

Tom  Folio — I  cling  to  the  winning  pseudonym — was  sparely  built  and 
under  medium  height,  or  may  be  a  slight  droop  of  the  shoulders  made 
it  seem  so,  with  a  fragile  look  about  him  and  an  aspect  of  youth  that 
was  not  his.  Encountering  him  casually  on  a  street  corner  you  would, 
at  the  first  glance,  have  taken  him  for  a  youngish  man,  but  the  second 
glance  left  you  doubtful.  It  was  a  figure  that  struck  a  note  of  singular- 
ity, and  would  have  attracted  your  attention  even  in  a  crowd. 

Returning  home  from  abroad  one  (October  morning  several  years  ago, 
I  was  told  that  that  simple  spirit  had  passed  on.  His  death  had  been 
little  heeded;  but  in  him  had  passed  away  an  intangible  genuine  bit  of 
Old  Boston — as  genuine  a  bit,' in  its  kind,  as  the  Autocrat  himself — a 
personality  not  to  be  restored  or  replaced.  Tom  Folio  could  never  hap- 
pen again  ! 

Strolling  to-day  through  the  streets  of  the  older  section  of  the  town, 
I  miss  many  a  venerable  landmark  submerged  in  the  rising  tide  of 
change,  but  I  miss  nothing  quite  as  much  as  I  do  the  sight  of  Tom 
Folio  entering  the  doorway  of  the  Old  Corner  Bookstore,  or  carefully 
taking  down  a  musty  volume  from  its  shelf  at  some  melancholy  old  book- 
stall on  Cornhill.' 

During-  the  last  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Babson  rented  a  small 
house  in  Melrose,  and  with  an  elderly  housekeeper,  who  pro- 
vided his  meals  and  kept  his  clothing  in  order,  he  lived  quietly 
and  comfortably,  siuTounded  by  his  books  and  a  few  personal 

'  Scribner's  Magazine,  volume  XXXI\  ,  jiages  277-279. 


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friends.  He  died  April  19,  1875.  Alow  marble  headstone 
marks  his  last  resting-place,  near  the  graves  of  his  father  and 
mother,  in  the  New  Hill  burying  ground  in  Newburyport, 
only  a  few  rods  in  a  northwesterly  direction  from  the  graves 
of  Caleb  Gushing  and  Hannah  F.  Gould. 

In  addition  to  his  essays  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly, 
Mr.  Babson  published,  in  1865,  "  Eliana  :  Being  the  hitherto 
uncollected  writings  of  Gharles  Lamb,"  with  a  preface  dated 
Ghelsea,  May,  1 864  ;  "  The  Wishing  Gap  Papers  by  Leigh 
Hunt,"  in  1873,  with  a  preface  dated  Melrose,  December  4, 
1872  ;  and  the  "  Fireside  Saints  :  Mr.  Gaudle's  Breakfast 
Talk,  and  other  papers,  by  Douglas  Jerrold,"  in  1873,  with 
a  preface  dated  Melrose,  July  24,  1873. 

The  second  edition  of  the  "  Wishing  Gap  Papers  "  and  the 
"Fireside  Saints"  was  published  in  1888. 

Garoline  Gushing  Andrews,  daughter  of  John  and  Mar- 
garet (Rand)  Andrews,  was  born  in  Newburyport  June  13, 
1832.  She  graduated  at  the  Putnam  Free  School  in  185 1, 
and  afterward  attended  a  private  school  in  Boston,  where  she 
completed  her  education.  Removing  to  Perth  Amboy,  New 
Jersey,  in  1854,  she  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  that  place 
until  the  beginning  of  the  Givil  war,  when  she  went  to 
Washington,  D.  G.,  to  assist  in  the  instruction  of  colored 
refugees  from  the  Southern  states. 

January  i,  1863,  she  married  Rufus  Leighton  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  G.,  and  with  her  husband,  went,  two  years  later,  to  the 
Pacific  coast,  where  she  resided  until  1883,  when,  returning 
to  Massachusetts,  she  published,  in  1884,  "Life  at  Puget 
Sound;"  in  1889,  "A  Swiss  Thoreau ;  "  and,  in  1891, 
"  Intimations  of  Eternal  Life." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leighton,  with  two  daughters,  born  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  are  now  living  at  Melrose  Highlands,  Mass. 

Jane  Andrews,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  (Rand) 
Andrews,  was  born  in  Newburyport  December  i,  1833.    She 


ARTISTS,  AUTHORS  AND  ENGRAVERS  339 

graduated  at  the  Putnam  Free  school  in  1850,  and  from  the 
State  Normal  school  in  West  Newton  in  1853.  ^^or  "carly 
two  years  she  was  a  pupil  and  instructor  in  Antioch  college, 
Ohio,  under  Horace  Mann,  returning  to  Newburyport  in 
1855,  on  account  of  ill  health.  In  1861,  she  opened  a  pri- 
vate school  for  children,  in  an  upper  chamber  of  her  father's 
house  on  High  street,  which  she  taught  until  compelled  by 
severe  illness  to  relinquish  her  work  in  1885.  She  published 
several  volumes,  that  have  recently  been  re-published,  with 
titles  as  follows  : — 

The  Seven  Little  Sisters  who  Hve  on  the  Round  Ball  that  floats  in  the 
air,  1 86 2. 

Each  and  All  :      The  Seven  Little  Sisters  Prove  Their  Sisterhood,  i<S77. 

Geographical  Plays  for  Young  Folks  at  School  and  at  Home,  iSSo. 

Ten  Boys  who  lived  on  the  Road  from  Long  Ago  to  Now.  1SS5. 

The  Child's  Health  Primer  (published  by  the  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union).  1S85. 

Only  a  Year  and  What  it  Brought,  188S. 

She  died  July  15,  1887.  Since  that  date  some  of  her 
contributions  to  St.  Nicholas  and  other  magazines  have  been 
collected  and  published  by  her  sisters,  Emily  R.  Andrews  and 
Margaret  (Andrews)  Allen,  under  the  following  titles  : — 

The  Stories  Mother  Nature  Told  her  Children,  1S89. 
The  Stories  of  My  Son's  fViends,  igoo. 

Louisa  Parsons  (Stone)  Hopkins,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Eliza  (Atkins)  Stone,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April  19, 
1834.  She  was  a  pupil  in  the  Putnam  P'ree  school  in  1848, 
graduating  in  185  i,  and  completed  her  education  at  the  State 
Normal  school  at  West  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1853.  The  next 
year  she  was  a  teacher  in  one  of  the  public  schools  in  Keene, 
N.  H.,  and  afterwards  in  the  Putnam  Free  school,  Newbtiry- 
port.  In  1855,  she  was  assistant  preceptress  in  the  P""riend's 
Academy,  New  Bedford,  and  in  1856  and  1857  was  teaching, 
under  the  supervision  of  Eben  S.  Stearns,  1  principal,  in  a 
private  school  for  young  ladies  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 


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October  4,  1859,  she  married  John  Hopkins  of  New  Bed- 
ford, and  made  that  city  her  home  for  nearly  thirty  years. 
She  educated  her  children  in  a  school  which  she  established 
for  them  and  a  few  other  children  living  in  the  vicinity  of  her 
residence,  and  afterwards  was  instructor  and  lecturer  in  the 
Swain  Free  school  for  four  years.  She  devoted  much  time 
to  the  study  of  educational  questions,  and  published  several 
volumes  on  the  science  of  teaching  and  kindred  subjects. 

At  the  celebration  of  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  settlement  of  Newbury  exercises  were  held,  June 
10,  1885,  in  City  hall,  Newburyport,  and  Mrs.  Hopkins  read, 
at  the  request  of  the  committee  of  arrangements,  a  poem 
written  by  her  for  that  occasion. 

In  1887,  she  removed,  with  her  husband,  three  sons  and 
two  daughters,  to  Newburyport,  and  occupied  a  large  three- 
story  dwelling  house  near  the  Essex-Merrimack  bridge.  In 
the  autumn  of  that  year  she  was  elected  one  of  the  super- 
visors of  the  public  schools  of  Boston,  and  in  1891  was 
chairman  of  a  commission  appointed  by  Gov.  William  E. 
Russell  to  investigate  the  theories  and  methods  of  manual 
training  and  industrial  education.  The  other  members  of  this 
commission  were  Edwin  P.  Seaver  and  George  E.  McNeill. 
To  Mrs.  Hopkins  was  assigned  the  duty  of  investigating  the 
manual  training  of  boys  and  girls  in  primary  and  grammar 
schools  and  the  industrial  training  of  advanced  pupils  in  the 
so-called  "vacation  schools."  She  made  a  long  and  exhaustive 
report,  which  was  published,  in  1893,  with  other  reports  made 
by  the  members  of  the  commission  associated  with  her.  At 
the  expiration  of  her  term  of  service  she  was  obliged  to  de- 
cline a  re-appointment  on  account  of  ill  health. 

She  died  May  26,  1895,  and  her  husband  died  on  the  sixth 
of  July  following.  They  were  buried  in  Oak  Hill  cemetery, 
Newburyport. 

During  her  residence  in  New  Bedford  she  published  two 
volumes  of  poetry  and  several  books  on  educational  subjects, 
as  follows  ; — 


AUTHORS,   ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  341 

Motherhood,  a  i)oem,    1.S80. 

Breath  of  the  Field  and  Sliore,  iSSi. 

Handbook  of  the  Earth  :   Natural  Methods  in  Geography,  1883. 

Natural    History     Plays,     Dialogues    and    Recitations  for    School 

Exhibitions,  1885. 
Educational  Psychology,  a  treatise  for  I^arents  and  Educators,  18S7. 
Practical  Pedagogy,  or  the  Science  of  Teaching  illustrated,  1887. 
Observation  Lessons  in  the  Primary  Schools  (In   Four  Parts),   1889 

and   1890.' 

Harriet  Elizabeth  (Prescott)  Spofford,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Nevvmarch  and  Sarah  (Bridges)  Prescott,  was  born  in 
Calais,  Maine,  April  3,  1835.  When  only  fourteen  years  of 
age  she  came  with  her  father,  mother  and  other  members  of 
the  family,  to  Newburyport,  and  for  three  years  was  a  pupil 
in  the  Putnam  Free  school,  graduating  in  1852. 

She  contributed  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  in  1859,  a  short 
story  entitled  "  In  a  Cellar,"  which  established  her  reputa- 
tion as  a  brilliant  and  popular  magazine  writer,  and  in  i860 
published  '*  Sir  Rohan's  Ghost,"  a  volume  of  three  hundred 
and  fifty  pages,  which  was  followed  in  1863  by  "The  Amber 
Gods  and  other  Stories,"  and  in  1864  by  the  "  Azorian." 

December  19,  1865,  she  married  Richard  S.  Spofford,  jr., 
of  Newburyport.  An  only  son,  Richard  Spofford  Spofford, 
born  January  30,  1867,  died  September  10,  1867. 

In  1874,  she  removed  with  her  husband  to  Deer  island,  in 
the  town  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  where  he  died  August  11, 
1888.  Residing  during  the  winter  months  in  Boston  and 
Washington,  D.  C,  Mrs.  Spofford  continues  to  occupy  the 
house  at  Deer  island  from  May  to  December,  busily  engaged 
in  literary  work. 

Mary  New.march  Prescott,  daughter  of  Joseph  New- 
march  and  Sarah  (l^ridges)  Prescott,  was  born  Atigust  2, 
1839,  in  Calais,  Maine.      Her  parents  removed    to    Nevvbury- 

1  Translated  into  Russian,  in  1907,  by  Mme.  Anna  Saniilotf,  wife  of  I'rofessor  A. 
Sani'iloff  of  the  University  of  Kasan. 


AUTflORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  343 

port  when  she  was  quite  young.  After  completing  her  edu- 
cation, she  wrote  occasionally  for  ^Terry's  Museum,  Oliver 
Optic's  Magazine,  Our  Young  Folks,  and  Harper's  Monthly, 
and  soon  became  a  regular  contributor  to  these  periodicals. 
Her  juvenile  stories  were  exceedingly  popular.  They  were 
collected  and  published  under  the  title  of  "  Matt's  Follies." 

She  died,  unmarried,  June  14,  1888,  at  the  home  of  her 
brother-in-law,  Richard  S.  Spofford,  on  Deer  island,  Amesbury, 
Mass. 

EnwiN  Augustus  Grosvenor,  son  of  Dr.  Edwin  Prescott 
and  Harriet  (Sanborne)  Grosvenor,  was  born  August  30, 
1845,  in  that  part  of  Newbury  afterward  set  off  and  annexed 
to  Newburyport.  He  graduated  at  Amherst  college  in  1867, 
and  afterwards  studied  for  the  ministry,  graduating  at  An- 
dover  Theological  Seminary  in  1872.  He  married  Lilian  H. 
Waters  of  Milbury,  Mass.,  October  23,  1873,  and  was  pro- 
fessor of  history  in  Roberts  college,  Constantinople,  for  six 
or  seven  years  after  that  date.  He  is  now  professor  of 
European  history  in  Amherst  college,  and  has  published  sev- 
eral volumes  on  "  Constantinople,"  "  The  Permanence  of  the 
Greek  Type,"  and   "  Contemporary  History  of  the  World." 

Adolphus  Washington  Greely,  son  of  John  Balch  and 
Frances  Cobb  Greely,  was  born  in  Newburyport  March  27, 
1844.  He  served  with  distinction  in  the  Civil  war,  and  was 
appointed  second  lieutenant  of  a  colored  regiment  at  New 
Orleans  after  the  surrender  of  Port  Hudson. 

In  1867,  he  received  his  commission  as  second  lieutenant 
in  the  regular  army,  and  was  promoted,  in  1873,  to  first  lieu- 
tenant, and  detailed,  in  1876,  for  service  in  the  United  States 
signal  corps. 

June  20,  1878,  he  married  Henrietta  Crager  Hudson  Nes- 
mith,  daughter  of  Thomas  L.  and  Marie  A.  (Gale)  Nesmith 
of  San  Diego,  California,  and  afterwards  had  command  of  the 
Lady  Franklin  Bay  expedition  to  the  north  polar  sea.    Rescued, 


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with  six  of  his  companions,  in  a  starving  condition,  by  the 
reUef  expedition  sent  by  the  United  States  government,  un- 
der Capt.  Winfield  S.  Schley,  he  was  greeted  with  a  hearty 
and  enthusiastic  pubhc  reception  when  he  returned  to  New- 
buryport  August  14,  1884/ 

As  chief  signal  officer  of  the  United  States  army,  he  was 
stationed  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1885;  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  brigadier-general  in  1887,  and  retired  from  active 
service,  with  the  rank  of  a  major-general,  in  1907. 

He  has  published  "  Three  Years  of  Arctic  Service," 
"American  Weather,"  "American  Explorers"  and  other 
books  on  meteorology,  climatology  and  polar  discoveries. 

Emily  Adams  Getchell,  daughter  of  Hubbard  and  Han- 
nah Rolfe  (Pillsbury)  Getchell,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now  a 
part  of  Newburyport,  February  7,  1850.  She  was  deeply 
interested  in  historical  and  genealogical  research,  and  pub- 
lished many  prose  sketches  and  short  poems  in  the  newspa- 
pers and  magazines  of  Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Massa- 
chusetts. In  1898,  she  compiled  and  published,  with  the 
assistance  of  David  B.  Pillsbury,  the  genealogical  records  of 
the  Pillsbury  family  in  a  volume  of  three  hundred  pages. 
She  died  in  Newburyport,  unmarried,  July  2,  1901. 

Susan  Whittemore  Moulton,  daughter  of  Henry  Wil- 
liam and  Susan  Floyd  (Whittemore)  Moulton,  was  born  in 
that  part  of  Newbury  now  included  within  the  limits  of  New- 
buryport, June  21,  1856.  She  wrote  short  stories  for  the 
newspapers  and  magazines,  and  published  a  few  short  poems 
that  were  well  received.  She  died  in  Newburyport  February 
19,  1889,  unmarried. 

George  William  Creasey,  son  of  George  and  Harriet 
(Lewis)  Creasey,  was  born  in  Newburyport  June  22,  1840. 
After  completing   his    education    in    the    ]>ublic    schools,   he 

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A  UTHORS,  A  R  TIS  TS  A  ND  ENGRA  VERS  345 

learned  the  trade  of  a  machinist.  August  21,  1862,  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Board  man,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Joanna  Bartlett, 
and  soon  after  that  date  enlisted  in  the  thirty-fifth  regiment 
of  Massachusetts  infantry,  and  was  in  the  ninth  corps  of 
the  army  of  the  Potomac  at  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness 
and  Spottsylvania,  in  Virginia.  In  1864,  he  was  captured  and 
confined  in  Libby  prison  at  Richmond,  and  afterward  removed 
to  Savannah,  Georgia.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  in  May,  1865, 
he  was  discharged  from  service  in  the  army  and  returned  to 
Newburyport,  where  he  found  employment  at  his  trade. 

Si.x  or  eight  months  later,  in  company  with  Joseph  Edward 
Moody  of  this  city,  who  had  also  been  a  soldier  in  the  army 
and  confined  in  Libby  prison,  he  decided  to  remove  to  Peters- 
burg, Virginia,  where  he  opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  lamps, 
oils  and  painters'  supplies.  The  firm  of  Moody  &  Creasey 
was  fairly  successful,  but  the  senior  partner,  having  been 
offered  a  more  lucrative  position  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
sold  his  interest  in  the  business  to  Mr.  Creasey,  who  remained 
in  Petersburg  until  1868,  when  he  was  obliged  to  return  to 
Massachusetts  on  account  of  ill  health. 

In  August,  1870,  he  was  appointed  clerk  in  one  of  the  de- 
partments of  the  Boston  custom  house,  and  subsecjuently 
promoted  to  the  office  of  chief  clerk.  October  i,  1892,  he 
resigned  his  clerkship  and  accepted  an  appointment  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Soldiers'  home  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  which 
position  he  held  until  stricken  with  paralysis,  in  April, 
1904.  In  the  month  of  August  following  he  removed  with 
his  wife  to  Lynn,  where  he  still  lives,  with  mind  and  body 
weakened  and  enfeebled  by  disease. 

In  1903,  Mr.  Creasey  published,  in  a  volume  of  five  hundred 
and  forty  pages,  a  carefully  prepared  history  of  "  Newburyport 
in  the  Civil  War,"  with  a  full  and  complete  record  of  the  sol- 
diers and  sailors  who  were  mustered  into  the  service  of  the 
United  States  and  credited  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  from 
1 86 1  to  1865  inclusive. 


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Moses  Foster  Sweetser,  son  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth 
Svveetser,  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  September  23,  1848.  He 
graduated  at  the  Putnam  Free  school  in  1867,  entered  Beloit 
college,  in  Wisconsin,  and  completed  his  education  at  Colum- 
bian college,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  In  1871  and  1872,  he 
traveled  in  England  and  on  the  continent  of  Europe,  studying 
the  habits  and  customs  of  the  people,  observing  the  Franco- 
German  war  and  writing  occasional  letters  to  the  newspapers 
in  Washington,  where  his  father  and  mother  then  resided. 
Returning  to  the  United  States,  he  prepared  and  published, 
in  1873,  his  guide  book,  "New  England,"  on  the  Baedeker 
plan.  In  1874,  he  prepared  a  similar  book  for  "  The  Middle 
States,"  in  1875  for  "The  White  Mountains,"  and  in  1876 
for  "The  Maritime  Provinces." 

He  married,  in  Boston,  October  17,  1877,  Edith  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  C,  Balch,  formerly  of  Nevvburyport.  At  that 
date  he  was  employed  by  James  R,  Osgood  &  Co.,  and  after- 
wards by  Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co.,  of  Boston,  to  write  the 
biographies  of  some  of  the  prominent  Italian  and  English 
artists.  He  devoted  much  time  and  attention  to  this  work, 
publishing  biographies  of  "  Guido  Reni,"  "  Raphael,"  "  Rem- 
brant,"  "  Titian,"  "  Murillo,"  "  Claude  Loraine,"  "  Era  An- 
gehco,"  "  Michael  Angelo,"  "  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,"  '*  Sir 
Edwin  Landseer,"  "  Washington  Allston  "  and  others  to  the 
number  of  eighteen  in  all. 

Mr.  Sweetser  died  in  Lynn  July  6,  1897,  leaving  a  widow 
and  one  son. 

Mary  Woodman,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Hall) 
Woodman,  was  born  in  Newburyport  in  1834  probably.  When 
Rev.  J.  C.  Fletcher,  who  built  and  occupied  the  stone  dwelling 
house  near  the  Essex-Merrimack  bridge,  now  known  as 
"Hawkeswood,*'  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  govern- 
ment consul  to  Oporto,  in  Portugal,  Miss  Woodman  was  invited 
to  go  with  his  family  to  that  city  and  assist  in  the  duties  of 
housekeeping.     She  accepted  the  invitation,  and  remained  in 


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Portugal  several  years,  devoting  considerable  time  to  teaching 
and  literary  work. 

Returning  to  the  United  States,  she  published,  in  1903,  "A 
Touch  of  New  England,"'  an  old-fashioned  story  "  For  Young 
and  Old  Hearts,"  which  attracted  considerable  attention  and 
met  with  a  comparatively  large  sale. 

Miss  Woodman  is  now  living  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  with  her 
brothers,  Alfred  and  Charles  Woodman. 

Alice  Brown,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Elizabeth  ^Robinson) 
Brown  of  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  was  born  December  5, 
1856.  After  completmg  her  education  at  Robinson  Semi- 
nary, in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  in  1876,  she  became  interested  in 
literary  work,  and  for  many  years  was  on  the  editorial  staff 
of  the  Youth's  Companion  in  Boston.  She  has  published 
several  volumes  of  stories  and  poems,  including  "  Fools  of 
Nature,"  "Meadow  Grass,"  "Tiverton  Tales,"  "High 
Noon,"  "The  Court  of  Love,"  "Paradise,"  and  ''  Rose  Mae 
Leod." 

\w  1897  she  came  to  Newburyport,  and  since  that  date  has 
occupied,  during  the  summer  months,  a  picturesque  cottage  on 
Water  street,  near  Ocean  avenue,  but  probably  will  remove 
soon  to  a  large  brick  dwelling  house,  on  the  northeasterly 
corner  of  Green  and  Washington  streets,  that  she  has  recently 
purchased. 

Clara  (Erskixe-Clement)  Waters,  daughter  of  John  and 
Harriet  (Godfrey)  Erskine,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
August  28,  1834.  She  married,  August  22,  1852,  James 
Hazen  Clement  ;  and,  after  his  death,  in  1881,  married.  May 
20,  1882,  Edwin  ^^)rbes  Waters,  publisher  of  the  Boston 
Daily  Advertiser. 

She  is  the  author  of  many  books  on  legendary  and  mytho- 
logical art,  and  has  published  several  volumes  of  biographical 
sketches  of  painters,  sculptors,  architects  and  engravers. 


348 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


Mr.  Waters  died  April  i8,  1894,  and  soon  after  that  date 
Mrs.  Waters  removed  to  Newburyport,  and  now  owns  and 
occupies  a  house  on  the  northeasterly  side  of  High  street, 
near  the  head  of  Lime  street. 

In  addition  to  the  above-named  authors,  Rev.  John  Lowell, 
Rev.  Thomas  Gary,  Rev.  Edward  Bass,  Rev.  Jonathan  Par- 
sons, Rev.  John  Murray,  Rev.  Samuel  Spring,  Rev.  James 
Morss,  Rev.  Luther  F.  Dimmick,  Rev.  Daniel  T.  Fiske,  Rev. 
Ashbel  G.  Vermilye,  Rev.  Horace  C.  Hovey,  Rev.  Thomas  B. 
Fox,  Rev.  Joseph  May,  Rev.  Samuel  C.  Beane,  Rev.  Edward 
A.Washburn,  Rev.  James  H.  Van  Buren,  Rev.  Rufus  Emery, 
Rev.  J.  C.  Fletcher,  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Spalding,  Rev.  Myron 
O.  Patton,  Rev.  George  H.  Miner  and  other  pastors  of 
churches  in  Newburyport,  have  published  sermons,  historical 
addresses,  genealogical  records,  biographical  sketches,  occa- 
sional poems  and  essays  ;  and  Nathan  N.  Withington,  Lothrop 
Withington,  Miss  Julia  Constance  Fletcher  and  Miss  Ethel 
Parton,  writers  of  recognized  ability,  are  frecjuent  contributors 
to  the  newspapers  and  magazines  of  the  day. 

ARTISTS. 

Benjamin  Tucker,  son  of  Rev.  John  and  Sarah  Tucker, 
was  born  in  Newbury  November  13,  1768.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  instructors  in  the  art  of  drawing  and  painting  in 
Newburyport.  He  received  pupils  two  evenings  in  the  week 
at  his  studio  on  Middle  street,  and  advertised  for  sale,  at  the 
same  place,  "  Two  or  three  good  likenesses  of  the  late  Rev. 
John  Murray."'  Although  an  artist  of  some  ability,  his  mini- 
atures and  portraits  were  severly  criticised  and  none  of  them 
were  considered  valuable  works  of  art.  In  1796,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  painting,  gilding  and  varnishing,  "  at  the  sign 
of  the  Painter's  arms,"  and  advertised  for  sale,  at  his  shop  on 
State  street,  "  a  handsome  engraving  of  the  Town  of  Newbury- 

1  Impartial  Herald,  March  6,  1795. 


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349 


port,  with  or  without  Glass  and  Frame."'  It  gives  a  view  of 
the  town  as  seen  from  Ring's  island.  This  engraving,  which 
is  now  exceedingly  rare  and  worthy  of  careful  study,  is 
reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  facing  the  title-page  of  this 
volume. 

In  October  or  November,  1 796,  Benjamin  Tucker  married 
Miss  Sally  Ridgeway  of  Concord.^  He  was  living  in  New- 
buryport  for  several  years  after  that  date,  but  his  subsequent 
career  is  unknown. 

Jacques  Moyse  Dupre,  afterwards  known  as  Moses  D. 
Cole,  was  probably  born  in  Bordeaux,  France,  in  1783.  He 
was  the  son  of  Nicholas  Cools  Godefroy,  a  planter  in  the 
town  of  Castrie,  on  the  Island  of  St.  Lucie,  in  the  West  In- 
dies, who  came  to  Newburyport  in  April,  1795,  and  died  in 
the  month  of  May  following.  All  the  real  and  personal  estate 
of  Nicholas  Cools  Godefroy,  except  fifteen  hundred  livres  to 
his  natural  son,  Jacques  Moyse  Dupre,"  was  by  the  terms  of 
his  will  bequeathed  to  his  son  Cools  Godefroy,  then  residing 
in  Baltimore,  Md.^  Under  the  guardianship  of  William  Farris 
and  Ebenezer  Stocker,  the  sons  of  Nicholas  Cools  Godefroy 
were  carefully  provided  for  until  they  came  of  age,  when 
Cools  Godefroy  returned  to  St.  Lucie,  where  he  died  a  few 
years  later ;  and  Jacques  Moyse  Dupre,  taking  the  name 
Moses  Dupre  Cole,  remained  in  Newburyport,  and  married, 
June  20,  1802,  Sarah  Avery  of  York,  Maine. 

For  several  years  Moses  D.  Cole  had  a  store  on  State 
street,  where  he  painted  ornamental  signs,  framed  looking 
glasses,  and  sold  a  few  books  and  engravings.  This  store  was 
burned  in  the  great  fire  of   181 1,  and  Mr.  Cole  leased  a  shop 

1  Impartial  Herald,  March  29,  1796. 

-  Benjamin  Tucker's  intention  of  marriage  was  filed  in  Newburyport  October 
22,  1796. 

^  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  364,  leaf  222.  William  I'arris  and  Kbenezer 
Stocker  were  appointed  executors  of  the  will  and  guardian  of  Cools  (lodefroy 
December  28,  1795  (book  364,  leaf  223,  and  book  381,  leaf  154). 


35° 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NK  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


on  Essex  street  and  turned  his  attention  to  portrait  painting.' 
When  the  brick  dwelling  house  on  the  corner  of  State  and 
Harris  streets  was  converted  into  a  tavern,  in  1814,  Mr.  Cole 
painted  on  the  sign  that  still  hangs  in  front  of  that  famous 
hostelry,  the  portrait  of  General  Wolfe,  and  subsequently 
made  an  admirable  sketch  of  President  Monroe  when  that 
distinguished  statesman  visited  Newburyport  in  181 7. 

Mr.  Cole  died  September  18,  1849.  His  widow  died  Oc- 
tober 25,  1874.  His  sons,  Joseph  Greenleaf,  Lyman  Emer- 
son and  Charles  Octavius,  inherited  considerable  artistic 
talent,  and  painted  some  portraits  that  have  been  highly  com- 
mended by  competent  art  critics. - 

William  Swain,  son  of 
Levi  and  Phebe  Swain,  was 
born  in  Newburyport  De- 
cember 27,  1803.  He  was 
a  skilful  artist,  and  at  an 
early  age  had  a  studio  "  in 
rooms  over  Mrs.  Wood- 
bury's store  on  Pleasant 
street,"  where  specimens 
of  his  work  were  exhibited.^ 
\x\  1825,  St.  Mark's  lodge 
of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  purchased  a  full- 
length  portrait  of  General 
Washington,  painted  by 
Swain,  and  the  next  year 
bought  a  portrait  of  Gen. 
Joseph  Warren,  painted  by 
the  same  artist. ■♦ 


WILLIAM    SWAIX. 


'  See  advertisement  in  Newburyport  Herald  and  Commercial  Gazette,  Sept. 19,1815. 

2  Two  excellent  portraits,  one  of  Abner  Caldwell,  the  other  of  his  wife,  painted 
by  Joseph  Greenleaf  Cole,  are  now  in  the  possession  of  Frank  S.  Osgood,  No.  41 
Marlborough  street;  and  Edward  Osgood,  at  No.  49  Purchase  street,  has  portraits 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moses  Goodwin,  painted  by  Lyman  Emerson  Cole. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  November  12,  1824. 

■*  "  Ould  Newburj'port : "  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  625  note. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  351 

In  1829,  he  married  Maria,  daughter  of  WilHam  Caldwell, 
an  innkeeper  who  occupied  the  Dexter  house  on  High  street 
for  several  years.  In  1830,  Mr.  Swain  had  a  studio  in  New 
Bedford,  and  afterwards  in  Nantucket.  He  removed  to  New 
York  City  in  1835,  and  was  elected  a  member  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Design.  In  1841,  he  visited  the  art  galleries  of 
Europe,  and  for  two  years  studied  the  works  of  the  old  masters 
in  London,  Paris,  Florence  and  Rome. 

While  abroad,  he  painted  a  portrait  of  the  eminent  artist  and 
bank-note  engraver,  John  W.  Casilear,  who  was  then  in  Europe.' 
At  about  the  same  time  he  painted  a  remarkably  good  portrait 
of  himself.  A  photographic  copy  of  this  portrait,  now  in  the 
possession  of  his  grandson,  William  Swain,  of  Marysville, 
California,  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite 
page. 

In  1844,  Mr.  Swain  returned  to  New  York  City,  where  he 
opened  a  studio.  Soon  after  that  date  he  painted  a  portrait  of 
Rev.  James  Milnor,  D.  D.,  rector  of  St.  George's  (Episcopal) 
church,  which  was  highly  commended  by  artists  and  art  critics. - 

Mr.  Swain  died  in  February,  1847,  after  a  short  illness,  at 
the  home  of  his  father  in  Norfolk,  Virginia. 

A  daughter,  Cornelia  Swain,  married  Arthur  E.  Oakley,  an 
English  artist.  She  is  still  living  in  Allen  Lane,  a  suburb  of 
Philadelphia. 

Violet  Oakley,  daughter  of  Arthur  E.  and  Cornelia  (Swain) 
Oakley,  has  recently  completed  a  frieze  decoration  in  the 
governor's  reception  room  in  the  new  state  capitol  at  Harris- 
burg,  representing  the  development  and  triumph  of  the  idea 
of  liberty  of  conscience  "  in  the  holy  experiment  of  Pennsyl- 
vania,"— a  work  of  great  merit,  skilfully  painted  from  original 
designs. 

'  Casilear  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Toppan,  Carpenter,  Casilear 
&  Co.,  successors  to  Murray,  Draper,  Fairman  &  Co.  He  afterwards  turned  his 
attention  to  landscape  painting,  and  died  at  Saratoga  Springs  in  1893. 

■■'  James  Milnor  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1773.  He  was  rector  of  .St.  Ceorge's 
church,  in  New  York  City,  from  1816  to  the  day  o    his  death,  April  8,  1844. 


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Thomas  Baylev  Lawson,  son  of  William  and  Frances 
Lawson,  was  born  in  Newburyport  January  13,  1807.  He 
was  for  several  years  clerk  in  a  dry-goods  store  on  State 
street,  where  he  began  business  on  his  own  account  in  1829. 
He  married,  December  17,  1838,  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Nathan  Follansbee,  of  Newburyport,  and  removed  to  Lowell 
three  or  four  years  later. 

Turning  his  attention  to  portrait  painting,  he  rose  rapidly 
to  the  front  rank  of  the  profession,  painting  fine  portraits  of 
Clay,  Cushing,  Garrison,  Whittier  and  Webster.    All  of  these 

portraits,  painted  from  life, 
have  been  highly  praised  by  art 
critics,  especially  the  portrait  of 
Webster,  which  has  been  copied 
se\'eral  times  by  other  artists, 
for  political  associations  and 
charitable  institutions. 

Mr.  Lawson  was  much  in- 
terested in  the  improvement 
and  development  of  the  New- 
bur)port  Public  library,  and 
gave  to  the  trustees,  in  1883 
and  1884,  portraits  of  Daniel 
Webster  and  Caleb  Cushing, 
painted  by  himself.  He  also 
painted,  at  about  the  same  time,  the  portrait  of  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  presented  to  the  trustees  by  William  H.  Bent,  esq.,  of 
Lowell. 

Mr  Lawson  died  June  4,  1888,  leaving  one  son,  Walter  U. 
Lawson,  and  two  daughters,  Frances  Ellen  and  Lilla  Lawson. 
His  son,  Walter,  married,  April  25,  1900,  Elizabeth  Lennon 
of  New  York  City,  and  now  resides  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Frances  Ellen,  his  oldest  daughter,  married,  first,  Nicholas 
Biddle  Uhler  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and,  second,  P^rank  Be\an 
Skinner  of  Woodbury,  N.  J.  Lilla  Lawson,  his  youngest 
daughter,  married  Frederick  Grant    of    Boston.     Mr.   Grant 


THOMAS   B.    LAWSON. 


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353 


died  in  1892  ;   and  his  widow,  Lilla  (Law^son)   Grant,   died  in 
1S98. 

A  photograph  of  Mr.  Lawson,  taken  when  he  was  eighty 
years  of  age,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Frank  Bevan 
Skinner.  With  her  permission,  it  is  reproduced  in  the  half- 
tone print  on  the  opposite  page. 

Hiram  Betts  Haskell,  son  of  Caleb  and  Fanny  Matilda 
(Betts)  Haskell,  was  born  in  Frederickton,  N.  B.,  January  17, 
1823.  His  parents  removed  to  Newburyport  when  he  was 
only  five  years  old,  and  he  subsequently  attended  the  primary 
and  grammar  schools  of  the  town  for  several  years.  At  an 
early  age  he  found  employment  in  a  grocery  store,  and  after- 
wards in  a  drug  store  in  Boston.  He  took  lessons  in  drawing 
and  painting,  and  in  1845  opened  a  studio  in  Newburyport 
and  devoted  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  portrait  painting. 
He  was  unmarried,  and  occupied  apartments  near  his  studio. 

In  addition  to  his  artistic  skill,  he  had  considerable  literary 
ability,  and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Newburyport 
Herald,  Newburyport  Daily  Evening  Union  and  other  news- 
papers of  the  day. 

While  painting  a  portrait  in  Byfield,  Newbury,  he  was  found 
unconscious,  and  remained  in  that  condition  until  his  death, 
August  22,  1873. 

Alfrel-)  Thompson  Bricher,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
Dame  (Muir)  Bricher,  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  April 
10,  1837.  He  came  with  his  father,  mother  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family  to  Newburyport  in  1840,  and  was  a  pupil 
in  the  Putnam  Free  school  from  July,  1850,  to  July,  185  i. 
When  only  fifteen  or  si.xteen  years  of  age  he  was  a  clerk  in  a 
bookstore  in  Boston,  devoting  all  his  spare  time  to  the  study 
of  drawing  and  painting  at  the  Lowell  Institute. 

In  1858,  he  opened  a  studio  in  Newburyport,  removing  to 
Boston  in  i860,  and  to  New  York  City  in  1868.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the   American  Water   Color  society  in 


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1874,  and  of  the  National  Academy  of  Design  in  1879.  His 
autumn  landscapes  and  marine  views  painted  since  the  last- 
named  date  have  attracted  attention  at  all  the  prominent  art 
exhibitions  in  the  United  States. 

He  gave  to  the  Newburyport  Public  library,  in  1882,  an  oil 
painting  of  "  Sea  Gull  Cliff,"  a  rocky  promontory  at  the 
southern  end  of  the  island  of  Grand  Manan.'  This  painting, 
and  other  productions  of  his  art,  displayed  in  public  and 
private  picture  galleries  in  Boston  and  New  York,  have  estab- 
lished his  reputation  as  a  successful  and  accomplished  artist. 

Among  the  many  notable  works  that  have  come  from  his 
studio  the  best  known,  and  perhaps  the  most  highly  appre- 
ciated, are  "  Low  Tide  at  Grand  Manan,"  "  The  Grotto  at 
Orr's  Island,"  "  Mist  on  the  Hills  at  Chff's  Island,"  "Low 
Tide,  Matthew's  Cove,  Grand  Manan,"  and  the  "Surf  at 
Conanicut." 

Mr.  Bricher  has  been  twice  married,  in  1868  to  Susan  A. 
Wildes  of  Boston,  and  in  1881  to  Alice  L.  Robinson  of  New 
York.  His  residence  at  the  present  time  is  New  Dorp, 
Staten  Island.  His  studio  is  at  No.  2  West  14th  street,  New 
York  City. 

John  Appleton  Brown,  son  of  George  Frederick  Handel 
and  Asenath  Lyons  (Page)  Brown  of  West  Newbury,  Mass., 
was  born  in  that  town  July  12,  1844.  He  studied  art  in  Bos- 
ton, and  in  1867  went  to  France,  where  he  remained  several 
years,  a  pupil  of  the  distinguished  landscape  painter,  Emile 
Lambinet.  Returning  to  Massachusetts,  he  opened  a  studio 
in  Boston,  and  married,  June  26,  1874,  Agnes  A.  Bartlet, 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Louisa  S.  Bartlet  of  Newburyport. 

He  went  again  to  Europe  for  study  in  1874  and  1888,  but 
retained  his  residence  in  Boston  until  1891,  when  he  moved 
to    New   York,    where  he  opened  a   studio.     His  landscape 

'  See  Historical  Sketch  of  Grand  Manan  and  Quoddy  Bay,  by  Edward  Abbott, 
published  in  Harper's  Monthly  Magazine  for  March,  1878,  illustrated  by  Alfred  T. 
Bricher,  pages  541-566. 


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355 


paintings  have  been  highly  commended  by  art  critics,  and  his 
"Springtime,"  with  its  blossoming  apple  trees  reflected  in  a 
shallow  pond,  has  been  selected 
for  reproduction  in  the  "  Mas- 
ter Pieces  of  American  Art." 
He  was  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Design, 
Society  of  American  Artists, 
New  York  Water  Color  club 
and  several  other  organizations, 
including  the  Players'  club  and 
the  Century  club. 

He  died  in  New  York  City 
January  19,  1902.  His  widow, 
Agnes  (Bartlet)  Brown,  who  has 
painted  many  attractive  pictures 
of  woodland  scenery,  domestic 
animals,  fruits  and  flowers,  has 
resided  in  Newburyport  since 
the  death  of  her  husband.  ,ohx  appi.f:ton  hkown. 


William  Edward  Norton  was  born  in  Boston  June  28, 
1843.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  Norton,  who  was  born  in 
Newburyport  February  18,  1796,  and  married,  March  22, 
1822,  Mary,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Mary  (Putnam)  Carr  of 
Newbury.  Daniel  Norton  resided  in  Newburyport  until  1837, 
when  he  removed  to  Boston  with  his  wife  and  six  children. 

His  youngest  son,  William  Edward  Norton,  born  as  above- 
stated  in  Boston,  developed  a  taste  for  drawing  and  painting 
at  an  early  age,  and  after  completing  his  education  in  the 
public  schools,  attended  lectures  on  art  at  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute, and  subsequently  learned  the  trade  of  a  house,  sign  and 
decorative  painter. 

In  1865,  he  began  his  career  as  a  marine  artist,  receiving 
instruction  from  George  Inness,  and  tw-o  years  later  made  a 
voyage  to  Europe  in  a  sailing  ship   to   study  "  the  effect  of 


356  fi^^  TOK  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

winds  and  clouds  and  changing  skies,"  by  moonlight  and  sun- 
light, on  the  sea. 

In  1868,  he  married  Sarah  D.  Ryan  of  Grand  Manan,  New- 
Brunswick,  where  he  passed  several  summers  sketching  the 
lofty  hills  and  rocky  cliffs  of  that  picturesque  island.  He 
went  with  his  wife  to  Paris  in  1877,  and  there  continued  the 
study  of  art  under  the  direction  of  Jacquesson  de  la  Chev- 
reuse  and  A.  Vollon.  Two  or  three  years  later  he  visited 
Italy,  and  afterward  opened  a  studio  in  London,  where  he 
lived  until  1902.  Since  his  return  to  the  United  States,  with 
his  wife  and  two  daughters,  in  the  autumn  of  that  year,  he 
has  resided  in  New  York  City,  where  his  wife  died  in  1904. 

His  paintings  have  been  exhibited  frequently  in  the  Royal 
Academy  of  London,  in  the  Paris  Salon,  and  many  of  the 
public  art  galleries  of  the  United  Kingdom.  He  has  been 
awarded  three  gold  medals,  one  at  the  art  exhibition  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1876,  one  at  Chicago  in  1893  and  one  at  St.  Louis 
in  1904. 

Although  a  marine  artist,  Mr.  Norton  has  painted  land- 
scapes and  views  of  peasant  life  in  Europe,  with  groups  of 
men  and  women  working  in  the  fields  at  sunrise  or  resting 
from  their  labors  at  sunset. 

"A  Moment's  Leisure,"  reproduced  in  the  half-tone  print 
on  the  opposite  page,  is  a  view  of  the  seashore  in  Holland, 
with  a  Dutch  peasant  waiting,  with  his  boys  and  horses,  to 
launch  a  fishing  boat  on  the  beach.  "  Day  Dreams  and  Dutch 
Lovers  "  represents  a  young  couple,  in  quaint  costume,  sitting 
on  a  bench  in  the  sunlight.  "  The  Boats  are  Coming  "  is  the 
title  of  a  picture  with  two  young  Dutch  girls  in  the  foreground, 
one  sitting  on  the  sand  dunes  at  the  seashore,  the  other  stand- 
ing and  pointing  seaward.  "The  Arrival  of  a  Herring  Boat 
on  the  Dutch  Coast  "  represents  a  group  of  men  and  women 
watching  a  boat  coming  on  to  the  beach  in  a  rough  sea. 
"Driftwood"  is  a  sketch  of  the  seasho.e  with  an  old  fish- 
wife carrying  home  driftwood  ;  and  "  Her  Last  Trip  "  is  a 
picture  of  man  and  horses  pulling  a  condemned   boat  up  on 


A  C  'T/WRS,  A  A'  TIS  TS  A. YD  EXCA'A  P'EKS  357 

the  beach  in  Ilollaiul.      ''Tackino"  Ship  off  Shore  "   is  a  view 
of  the  sea  from  the  coast  of   Ireland,  with    a   full-rigi^ed   ship 


"  A    moment's    leisure,"    by    WILLIAM    E.    NORTON. 

"  coming  about  "  on  the  long  tack :  her  sails  "  aback  "  on  the 
foremast,  ready  to  fill  out  as  the  ship  obeys  her  helm  and  in 
stately  fashion  comes  around   to  the  wind. 

A  picture  suggested  by  the  lines  of  Coleridge  in  "  The 
Rime  of  the  Ancient  Mariner  "  is  reproduced  in  the  half-tone 
print  on  the  next  page.  It  represents  a  sixteenth-century 
ship  sailing  among  icebergs  in  a  fog. 

And  now  there  came  both  mist  and  snow. 
And  it  grew  wondrous  cold  : 
And  ice,  mast  high,  came  floating  by, 
As  green  as  emerald. 

"  Tranquility  "  is  the  title  of  a  moonlight  view  of  ships  in 
smooth  water,  with  sails  furled,  waiting  to  enter  the  nearby 
dock.  This  painting  received  honorable  mention  at  the  Paris 
salon  in  1895. 


358 


II IS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  UR  YFOR  T 


Mr.  Norton  continues  to  work  at  his  profession,  and  has 
recently  exhibited  several  interesting  and  attractive  pictures 
at  his  studio,  No.  193 1  Broadway,   New  York  City. 


THE    ANCIENT    MARINER,        liV    WIIJI AM    E.    NORTON. 


Lauka  Coombs  Hills,  daughter  of  Philip  Knapp  and  Mary 
{Gerrish)  Hills,  was  born  in  Newburyport  Se[)tember  7,  1859. 
After  completing  her  education  in  the  public  schools  of  the 
city,  she  turned  her  attention  to  decorative  work,  and  devoted 
many  months  to  designing  Christmas  cards  and  valentines, 
and  afterwards  to  crayon  drawings  and  pictorial  illustrations 
for  St.  Nicholas  Magazine.  In  order  to  perfect  herself  in  her 
chosen  profession  she  attended  the  Cowles  Art  school  in  Bos- 
ton and  the  Art  Students'  league  in  New  York.  At  her 
home  in  Newburyport,  in  an  upper  room  of  the  house  where 
her  parents  resided,  on  the  southwesterly  corner  of  Washing- 
ton'and  Market  streets,  Miss  Hills  studied  and  painted  until 
she  opened  a  studio  in  Boston,  at  first  on  Huntington  avenue, 


AUTHORS,  AKTIS'I'S  AND  EXG RAVERS 


359 


opposite  Arlington  street,  afterwards  on  Boylston  street  and 
recently  at  No.  66  Chestnut  street. 

In  December,  1892,  she  had  the  care  and  supervision  of 
the  dances  and  decorations  at  Mechanics  hall,  Itoston,  when 
the  "  Pageant  of  the  Year  "  was  given,  under  the  auspices 
and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Women's  Educational  Union  of 
that  city.  Her  skill  in  designing  the  costumes  and  working 
out  the  details  of  that  fairy-like  spectacle  was  highly  com- 
mended by  the  newspapers  of  the  day. 

Turning  her  attention  to  miniature  painting,  Miss  Hills 
soon  developed  a  remarkable  talent  for  that  line  of  work.  In 
1897,  she  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Society  of  American 
Artists,  and  the  next  year  several  of  her  miniatures  were  on 
exhibition  at  the  Paris  salon. 

In  March,  1908,  fifty  artistic  portraits  from  her  studio  were 
exhibited  at  the  Copley  gallery,  on  Boylston  street,  Boston, 
and,  in  the  month  of  May  following,  this  collection,  including 
fanciful  and  ideal  subjects,  "  Saint  Elizabeth,"  "The  Sleep- 
ing Girl,"  "The  Red  Flower,"  "The  Black  Mantle."  and 
portraits  of  "Mrs.  Mayer  S.  Bernheimer "  "Miss  Dorothy 
Bass  Whitney,"  "Miss  Margaret  Curzon  Hale,"  "  Miss  Alice 
Brown,"  "  Miss  Marjorie  S.  Bernheimer  "  and  others,  was  on 
■exhibition  for  several  weeks  at  the  Rembrandt  gallery,  on 
Vigo  street,  London.  An  English  critic,  in  a  communication 
to  the  London  Daily  Telegraph,  wrote  as  follows  concerning 
these  miniatures  : — 

What  is  particularly  interestin;L(  and  remarkable  is  that  Miss  Hills 
renders  with  real  subtlety  and  yet  without  exaggeration  the  racial  char- 
acteristics of  her  nation.  The  American  beauty  in  youth,  with  her  air 
of  keenness,  of  confidence,  of  disdain  for  sentimentality,  is  painted  with 
wonderful  strength  and  delicacy. 

At  the  close  of  this  exhibition  in  London,  Miss  Hills,  with 
her  sister  Elizabeth,  visited  France,  Switzerland,  Italy  and 
other  places  of  interest  on  the  continent  of  Eurojie,  returning 


360  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOK  T 

to  Boston  in  season  to  resume  her  work  in  the  month  of  Oc- 
tober following,  at  her  studio,  No.  66  Chestnut  street. 

During  the  summer  months  Miss  Hills  resides  with  her 
sister  in  a  picturesque  cottage  recently  erected  at  Sawyer's 
hill,  on  Storey  avenue,  Newburyport. 

INVENTORS  AND  ENGRAVERS. 

Matthew  Perkins,  born  in  Ipswich  May  29,  1725,  mar- 
ried Ann  Greenleaf  of  Newbury  December  22,  1748.  Twelve 
children,  four  sons  and  eight  daughters,  of  Matthew  and  Ann 
(Greenleaf)  Perkins  were  born  in  Newbury  at  the  following- 
named  dates  : — 

Benjamin,  born  December  8,  i  749. 

John.  •'  January  30,  1751. 

Nathan,  ''  April  9,  1732. 

Ebenezer,  "  November  30,  1753. 

Mary,  •'  April  22,  1755  ;  married  Nicholas  Johnson. 

Abigail,  "  September  21,  1756. 

Jane,  "  April  14,  1758;  married  Aaron  Pardee. 

Esther,  "  May  27,  1759. 

Susannah,    "  September  9,  i  760. 

Ruth,  "     July  28,   1 761  )   ,    . 

■'     -^       '     '       C  tvvms. 
Sarah,  "     July  28,    1761  \ 

Elizabeth,     "     June  2,  1762. 

Mrs.  Ann  (Greenleaf)  Perkins  died  August  28,  1762  ;  and 
her  husband,  Matthew  Perkins,  married,  January  23,  1763, 
Mrs.  Jane,  widow  of  Jonathan  Dole.  The  following-named 
children  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Dole)  Perkins  were  born  in 
Newburyport  soon  after  the  town  was  incorporated  : — 

Jacob.  born  March  2,  1764;  died  March  2,  1764. 

Edmund,  '•  July  2,  1765;  died  August  17,  1765. 

Jacob,  "  July  9.  1 766. 

Abraham,  "  May  4,  1 768. 

Anna  Greenleaf,    "  P'eb.  2,  1770;  died  August  7,  1770. 

Anna,  "  April  15,  1771;  died  August  6,  1771. 

Sarah,  "  June  15,  1 773. 

Matthew  Perkins  died  in  May,  18 15. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AXD  ENGRAVERS  361 

Benjamin  Perkins,  son  of  Matthew  and  Ann  (Greenlcaf) 
Perkins,  born  in  Newbury  December  8,  1749,  was  a  lieutenant 
in  Cai)t.  Moses  Nowell's  company,  and  marched  with  that 
company  from  Newbury  port  to  Cambridge  immediately  after 
the  Lexington  alarm  in  April,  1775.  He  married,  May  13, 
1775,  Elizabeth  Clarkson  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H./  and  had  one 
son,  Joseph,  born  March  4,  1781,  who  died  in  infancy.  He 
had  command  of  a  company  in  Col.  Moses  Little's  regiment 
at  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill,  and  afterwards  in  New  York  and 
New  Jersey.  His  wife  died  June  7,  1784,^  and  he  married, 
January  16  (25.?),  1785,  Mary  Moody  of  Newburyport.  He 
owned  and  occupied  a  house  on  the  corner  of  Fair  and  Mid- 
dle streets  for  man}'  years.  September  2,  1795,  he  bought 
of  Abel  Greenleaf  land  on  the  corner  of  Green  and  Pleasant 
streets,  and  erected  the  two-story  brick  dwelling  house,  with 
a  "  gambrell  roof,"  now  standing  there.^  He  died  March  9, 
1797.  His  will,  proved  on  the  third  of  April  following, 
provided  for  the  payment  of  his  just  debts,  and  also  for  an 
annual  allowance  of  fifty  dollars  to  his  father,  Matthew  Per- 
kins ;  the  rest  and  residue  of  his  estate  to  be  and  remain  the 
property  of  his  wife,  Mary  (Moody)  Perkins. 

On  the  twentieth  of  May,  1 798,  Mary  Perkins,  widow, 
married  Jonathan  Gage.  She  continued  to  live  in  the  house 
on  the  corner  of  Pleasant  and  Green  streets  until  her  death, 
March  20,  1830.  Her  husband,  Jonathan  Gage,  died  March 
3,  1 84 1,  aged  eighty-two  ;  and  the  house,  with  the  land  under 
and  adjoining  the  same,  became  the  property  of  her  nephew, 
Richard  Stone.-* 

Nathaniel  Hills  purchased  the  house  and  land  in  April, 
1844,  and  sold  it  in  the  month  of  June  following  to   Hannah 

1  New  England  Historical  and  (Genealogical  Register,  volume  L,  page  466. 

'  See  gravestone  in  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 

3  Essex  Deeds,  book  161,  leaf  191.  The  brick  dwelling  house  on  the  corner  of 
Milk  and  Federal  streets,  similar  in  shape  and  style  of  architecture,  was  built 
about  the  same  date  by  Nicholas  Johnson,  brother-in-law  of  Capt.  Benjamin 
Perkins. 

*  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  407,  leaf  396. 


362  HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

K.  Johnson,  wife  of  Harrison  Gray  Otis  Johnson.  She  re- 
tained possession  of  the  property  until  her  death,  in  1875^ 
when  it  was  conveyed  to  her  son,  Harrison  G.  Johnson,  who 
owned  and  occupied  it  for  twenty  years. 

Jacob  Perkins,  son  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Dole)  Perkinsr 
was  born  in  Newburyport  July  9,  1766.'  When  only  twelve 
years  of  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  goldsmith  and  learned 
the  art  of  making  gold  beads  and  plating  shoe  buckles.  Be- 
fore the  adoption  of  the  Federal  constitution,  in  1788,  he  was 
employed  to  make  the  dies  for  the  copper  coin  issued  by  the 
state  of  Massachusetts.^ 

November  11,  1790,  he  married  Hannah  Greenleaf,  Rev, 
John  Murray  officiating ;  and  two  years  later  invented  and' 
patented  machines  for  cutting  and  lettering  the  edge  of  coin 
and  also  for  detecting  counterfeit  money,  as  stated  in  the 
following  communication  published  in  the  Essex  Journal  and 
New  Hampshire  Packet  July  18,  1792  : — ^ 

Several  newspapers  of  the  past  and  present  week  have  prematurel}^ 
mentioned  Mr.  Perkins  of  this  town  being  sent  for  to  Philadelphia,  for 
the  pvirpose  of  superintending  the  coinage  there.  Mr.  Perkins'  abiHties 
in  that  hne  are  fully  adequate  to  such  an  appointment,  as  the  specimens 
he  has  exhibited  in  that  line  amply  testify.  Instead  of  the  former  meth- 
od of  performing  the  business,  he  has  invented  a  new  machine,  which 
cuts  the  metal  into  such  circular  pieces  as  are  wanted,  and  gives  the  im- 
pression at  the  same  time — its  motion  is  accelerated  by  a  balance-wheel,, 
and  more  than  one-third  of  the  time  and  labor  thereby  saved.  He  has 
also  constructed  another  machine,  of  his  own  invention,  for  milling  or 
lettering  the  edge,  by  which  a  boy  can  mill  sixty  each  minute.  Were  it 
found  necessary,  he  could  apply  steam  to  perform  all  the  most  laborious 
part  of  the  business.     But  what  is  of  more  importance,  and  will  be  found 

'  Matthew  Perkins,  born  in  Ipswich  May  29,  1725,  married  Ann  Greenleaf 
December  22,  1748.  She  died  August  28,  1762.  Mr,  Perkins  married,  January 
23,  1763,  Jane,  widow  of  Jonathan  Dole,  as  stated  on  page  360. 

■■^  The  old-fashioned  copper  cent,  with  an  Indian  on  one  side  and  an  eagle  on 
the  other,  was  made  from  dies  cut  by  Mr,  Perkins. 

■'  Newspaper  on  file  in  the  library  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  365 

to  be  of  more  public  utility  than  all  the  foregoing,  is,  a  check,  which  he 
has  invented,  for  discovering  counterfeits — this  is  so  contrived,  as  that 
one-eighth  of  a  minute  is  sufficient  to  determine,  without  the  possibility 
of  a  mistake,  whether  a  piece  of  money  is  genuine  or  not,  and  any  town 
or  merchant  can  be  supplied  at  a  small  expense  with  said  checks,  and 
then  rest  assured  that  an  imposition  will  be  absolutely  impossible 

In  1795,  Mr.  Pefkins  invented  a  machine  for  cutting  and 
heading  nails  at  one  operation,  and  leased  a  small  shop  or 
factory  in  Byfield,  Newbury,  where  he  commenced  the  manu- 
facture of  brads  and  nails,  removing  early  in  the  spring  of 
1796  to  a  more  convenient  location  in  Amesbury,  Mass.'  In 
1799,  a  new  method  of  detecting  counterfeit  bank  notes  was 
announced,  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day,  as  follows  : — 

Jacob  Perkins, 

Having  invented  an  effectual  check  for  detecting  counterfeit  Bank 
Paper,  which  has  received  the  sanction  of  several  Banks,  and  the  appro- 
bation of  the  undersigned  eminent  artists  in  Philadelphia,  and  having^ 
obtained  a  patent  securing  to  him,  and  to  his  assigns,  the  exclusive  right 
of  the  invention,  hereby  offers  to  his  fellow-citizens  the  privilege  of  using 
it  upon  terms  to  be  agreed  on  between  him  and  any  person  disposed  ta 
avail  themselves  of  a  guard  against  counterfeits. 

The  undersigned  having  examined  Jacob  Perkins"  new  invented  meth- 
od to  detect  counterfeit  Bank  Paper,  do  approve  of  the  plan ;  it  being 
impossible  to  engrave  or  sink  two  plates  perfectly  alike,  without  the 
original  die  or  hub,  the  counterfeiter  would  find  it  impossible  to  make 
an  impression  which  would  perfectly  gage  with  the  check  from  the  orig- 
inal die. 

Robert  Scot,  Engraver  &  Die  Sinker. 

James  Smither,  Engraver. 

James  Akix,  Engraver. ^ 

This  invention  for  preventing  the  counterfeiting  of  bank 
bills  consisted  of  a  simple  device  for  printing  on  the  face  of 
the  bill  in  fine  type,  many  times  repeated,  the  amount  for 
which  it  was  issued,  and  on  the  back  of  the  bill  letters  and 

'  History  of  Xewl)ury  (Currier),  page  298, 

"  Newburyport  Herald  and  Countrj'  (Gazette,  May  14,  1799. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  365 

figures  grotesquely  arranged,  as  shown  in  the  half-tone  prints 
on  pages  364  and  366,  reproduced  from  an  unfinished  and 
unsigned  bank  bill  now  in  the  possession  of  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester,  Mass. 

In  1804,  Mr.  Perkins  discovered  a  process  by  which  steel 
plates  could  be  hardened  without  injury  to  the  engraved  sur- 
face. A  large  number  of  these  plates  was  made  and  sold 
to  banking  associations  in  New  England,  as  stated  in  the 
following  advertisement  : — 

Stereotype  Plates  for  Banks. 

The  Patentee  of  the  Stereotype  Plates  for  the  impression  of  Bank 
Bills  informs  the  Public  that  he  has  constantly  on  hand  ready  made 
plates  (the  name  of  the  Bank  and  Town  excepted),  and  will  be  happy  to 
supply  Banks  on  the  shortest  notice.  His  terms  are  reasonable  and 
uniform,  the  plates  well  executed,  and  he  has  the  authority  of  many 
eminent  artists,  as  well  as  the  sanction  of  experience,  to  say  that  bills 
impressed  from  these  plates  cannot  be  counterfeited.  No  attempts  of 
the  kind  have  ever  yet  been  made,  tho'  it  has  been  adopted  and  is  now 
used  by  sixteen  Banks  in  New  England. 

Encouraged  by  the  success  of  his  principle,  and  the  increasing  de- 
mand for  his  plates,  he  has  at  a  great  expense  improved  his  former 
invention  by  adding  beauty  to  security.  He  has  formed  a  steel  plate  of 
sixty-four  dies,  impressed  by  the  same  dies  now  used  for  copperplates, 
neatly  fitted  and  keyed  together  in  a  strong  iron  frame.  The  name  of 
the  Bank  and  Town  and  the  denomination  of  the  Bill  are  removed  and 
substituted  at  pleasure.  The  standing  part  of  the  plates  are  elegantly 
engraved  by  Mr.  James  Akin.  When  completed  there  will  be  from  six 
to  seven  hundred  days  work  in  the  plate,  and  being  well  hardened,  it 
will,  without  injury,  print  more  paper  than  will  be  used  in  the  United 
States.  It  is  now  nearly  finished,  and  any  orders  addressed  to  him  at 
Newburyport  will  be  punctually  honored. 

Jacob  Perkins.' 

In  a  small  pamphlet  of  eight  pages,  published  in  January, 
1 806,  now  in  the  Boston  Public  library,  Mr.  Perkins  described 
his  invention  as  a  case-hardened  steel  plate,  with  steel  dies, 
one  inch  thick,  keyed  together  in  a  strong  iron  frame  and 

'  Newburj'port  Herald,  March  S,  1805, 


A  U  THORS,   A  R  TIS  TS  A  A'D  ENGRA  VERS  367 

firmly  screwed  to  a  metal  plate  one  inch  in  thickness.  The 
plate  is  made  in  separate  parts  in  order  that  it  may  serve  to 
print  bills  of  any  denomination.' 

In  1808,  these  plates  were  used  in  a  series  of  copy  books, 
published  for  the  use  of  school  children,  with  a  title  as  fol- 
lows : — 

Perkins  &  Fairman's  Running  Hand,  Stereographic  copies.  Paten 
Steel  Plates.- 

In  1 8 10,  Mr.  Perkins  invented  a  furnace  for  heating  houses 
and  large  buildings  with  hot  air.  When  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  college  was  built  on  Mason  street,  in  Boston,  it  was 
supplied  with  a  furnace  described  as  follows  : — 

The  whole  building  is  warmed  by  a  single  stove  situated  in  the  cellar 
calculated  by  the  inventor  [Jacob  Perkins]  for  burning  Rhode  Island 
coal.  Owing  to  the  smallness  of  its  draught,  it  burns  this  coal  in  great 
perfection,  keeping  up  a  permanent  and  intense  heat.  The  stove  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  brick  chamber  from  which  a  brick  flue  is  carried  up  to  the 
second  story,  communicating  by  large  pipes  or  apertures  with  all  the 
principal  rooms  in  the  house.  The  air  is  admitted  from  the  outside  of 
the  building,  through  a  brick  passageway  down  to  the  stove  :  a  portion 
of  it  goes  to  maintain  the  combustion  ;  the  rest  being  rarified  by  the 
heat  of  the  stove,  ascends  rapidly  through  the  fliue,  and  maybe  delivered 
at  pleasure  into  any  or  all  the  apartments  by  opening  the  pipes  or  com- 
munications. The  strong  current  of  heated  air  thus  obtained  is  suffi- 
cient lo  warm  the  largest  rooms  in  a  very  short  space  of  time.-' 

The  firm  of  Murray,  Draper,  Fairman  &  Co.,  engravers, 
was  established    in    Philadelphia,    by    George    Murray,  John 

'  The  title-page  of  this  pamphlet  reads  as  follows:  — 

The  I!  Permanent  Stereotype  Steel  Plate  II  with  it  Observations  on  its  Impor- 
tance II  and  1!  an  Explanation  i'  of  its  II  Construction  and  Uses  I'  C.  .Stebbins, 
printer  ll  1806  II 

^  Gideon  Fairman,  who  was  associated  with  Jacob  Perkins  in  the  publication  of 
these  copy  books,  was  an  engraver  in  Newburyport  at  that  date.  In  iSio,  he  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia,  and  the  next  year  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Murray,. 
Draper,  Fairman  &  Co. 

^  Historj' of  Boston,  by  Charles  Shaw,   published  in  1817,  pages  219  and  220. 


368  HISTOR  Y  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPOK  T 

Draper,  and  Gideon  Fairman,  previous  to  the  declaration  of 
war  with  Great  Britain,  in  1812.  Charles  Toppan  of  New- 
buryport  was  employed,  in  18 14,  to  assist  the  firm  in  engrav- 
ing copper  plates  to  be  used  in  printing  bank  bills,  and  in  18 16 
Mr.  Perkins  was  induced  to  remove  to  that  city.' 

Accompanied  by  Gideon  Fairman  of  Philadelphia  and 
Charles  Toppan  of  Newburyport,  Mr.  Perkins  went  to  Lon- 
don in  1 8 19  to  introduce  his  stereotype  plates,  but  was 
unable  to  induce  the  directors  of  the  Bank  of  England  to  pay 
the  sum  asked  for  printing  bills  by  his  method. 

Although  somewhat  discouraged,  he  decided  to  remain  in 
London  and  establish  himself  in  business  there.  The  next 
year,  in  company  with  Charles  Heath  and  Gideon  Fairman, 
he  engraved  and  sold  a  large  number  of  steel  book-plates,  and 
subsequently  supplied  the  Bank  of  Ireland  with  stereotype 
plates  on  which  its  bank  notes  were  printed. 

In  1822,  "Jacob  Perkins'  Patent  Hardened  Steel  Plates" 
were  generally  used  for  the  illustration  of  books  and  the  re- 
production of  pictures  and  portraits.  During  the  next  two 
or  three  years  his  brother,  Abraham  Perkins,  printed  from 
these  patent  plates,  in  Newburyport,  bills  for  most  of  the 
banks  in  Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Massachusetts.^  May 
20,  1825,  the  editor  of  the  Daily  Herald,  referring  to  this 
fact,  reminded  its  readers,  somewhat  facetiously,  that  notwith- 
standing the  cry  of  hard  times,  "  there  is  more  money  made 
in  Newburyport  than  in  any  other  town  in  the  Common- 
wealth." 

In  addition  to  the  inventions  described  above,  Jacob  Per- 
kins devoted  considerable  time  to  the  construction  of  a  steam 
gun  which  he  exhibited  before  a  board  of  commissioners,  con- 

1  After  the  death  of  George  Murray,  Mr.  Toppan  became  a  member  of  the  firm, 
and  the  name  was  changed  to  Draper,  Toppan,  Longacre  &  Co. ;  afterwards  to 
Toppan,  Carpenter,  Casilear  &  Co.  In  1858,  the  last-named  firm  combined  with 
others  to  form  the  American  Bank  Note  Company. 

2  Newburyport  Herald,  May  28,  1822.  The  brick  building  in  which  most  of 
these  bills  were  printed  is  still  standing  in  the  rear  of  the  dwelling  house  No,  18  Fruit 
street,  formerly  owned  by  Jacob  Perkins  and  afterwards  by  his  brother  Abraham. 


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sisting  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington  and  other  military  and 
scientific  gentlemen  of  England.  He  also  made  some  impor- 
tant discoveries  which  ultimately  led  to  a  more  economical  use 
of  coal  in  generating  steam.' 

Postage  stamps  were  first  issued  in  England  in  May,  1840. 
Sir  Rowland  Hill,  postmaster-general  at  that  date,  describing 
the  engraving  and  printing  of  these  stamps,  states  that  the 
work  was  done  substantially  as  follows  : — 

The  Queen's  head  was  first  engraved  by  hand  on  a  single  matrix  :  the 
effigy  being  encompassed  with  hnes  too  fine  for  any  hand,  or  even  any 
but  the  most  dehcate  machinery  to  engrave.  The  matri.x  being  subse- 
quently hardened  was  emploved  to  produce  impressions  on  a  soft  steel 
roller  of  sufficient  circumference  to  receive  twelve;  and  this  being  hard- 
ened, in  turn,  was  used  under  very  heavy  pressure  to  produce  and  repeat 
its  counterpart,  on  a  steel  plate,  to  such  an  extent  that  this,  when  used  in 
printing,  produced  at  each  impression  two  hundred  and  forty  stands  ; 
all  this  being  of  course  done,  as  machinists  will  at  once  perceive,  accord- 
ing to  the  process  invented  by  the  late  Mr.  Perkins. ^ 

The  half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page  is  reproduced 
from  a  lithograph  owned  by  C.  W.  Ernst,  esq.,  of  Boston. 
This  lithograph  was  drawn  by  Richard  J.  Lane,  from  a  portrait 
painted  previous  to  1825,  by  Chester  Harding.  DupUcate 
copies  of  the  lithograph  are  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Lawrence 
B.  Gushing  and  Hon.  Moses  Brown  of  Newburyport. 

Jacob  Perkins  died  July  30,  1849,  at  the  residence  of  his 
son,  in  Regents  square,  London. ^ 

Abraham  Perkins,  son  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Dole)  Per- 
kins, born  in  Newburyport  May  4,  1768,  married  Elizabeth 
Knapp  December  14,  1794,  Rev.  Thomas  Gary  officiating. 

Abraham  and  Elizabeth  (Knapp)  Perkins  had  seven  sons, 
Anthony,  Benjamin,  Gharles,  Abraham,  Nathaniel,  Jacob  and 

1  Newburyport  Herald,  September  5,  1823 

2  Life  of  Sir  Rowland  Hill,  by  his  nephew,  (Jeorge  K.  Hill,  volume  I,  page  406. 
•*  Newburyport  Herald,  September  21,  1849. 


A  UTHOKS,  A  A'  TIS  TS  AND  ENGRA  VERS  3  7  i 

Thaddeus,  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Mary  Jane  and 
Hannah,  all  born  in  Nevvburyport.  The  first-named  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  born  May  22,  1805,  married  Rev.  Randolph 
Campbell  ;  the  second,  Mary  Jane,  born  September  5, 
1 8 10,  married  Moses  Brown  ;  and  the  third,  Hannah, 
born  April  19,  18 13,  died  on  the  thirteenth  of  September 
following. 

Abraham  Perkins  was  a  brother  of  Jacob  Perkins,  the  in- 
ventor, and  was  interested  with  him  in  printing  bank  bills 
from  patent  steel  plates.  The  business  was  established  as 
early  as  1808.  In  July  of  that  year,  Jacob  Perkins  gave  a 
mortgage  deed  of  his  house  and  land  on  the  northwesterly 
side  of  Fruit  street  to  Charlotte  Hamilton  of  Exeter,  N.  H., 
who  conveyed  the  property  to  William  B.  Swett  of  Boston 
September  21,  181 5.'  The  brick  building  in  which  bank 
bills  were  printed  was  probably  erected  soon  after  that  date. 
Abraham  Perkins  purchased  the  property  September  1 1 , 
1832.-  His  wife  died  February  12,  183 1.  He  died  April  2, 
1839.  Isaac  Ames  of  Haverhill,  administrator  of  the  estate 
of  Abraham  Perkins,  sold  the  land  on  the  northwesterly  side 
of  P^ruit  street,  Newburyport,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  to 
Daniel  Silloway,  who  subsequently  conveyed  the  property  to 
Daniel  S.  Poor.^ 

James  Akin,  born  in  South  Carolina,  was  for  several  years 
clerk  in  the  state  department  at  Philadelphia,  under  Timothy 
Pickering.  He  afterward  went  to  England,  where  he  learned 
the  art  of  engraving,  and  probably  came  to  Newburyport  in 
1804,  at  the  solicitation  of  Jacob  Perkins,  who  was  then  at 
work  perfecting  his  patent  steel  plates  for  printing  bank  bills. 
The  following  advertisement  was  published  in  the  Newbury- 
port Herald  April  27,  1804: — 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  184,  leaf  77. 
2  Essex  Deeds,  book  266,  leaf  99. 
^  Essex  Deeds,  book  450,  leaf  245,  and  book  450,  leaf  240. 


372  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Engraving  in  General. 

The  public  is  respectfully  informed  that  the  above  business  will  be 
carried  on  very  extensively  by 

James  Akin,  Newburyport, 
who,  having  completed  his  professional  studies  in  London  under  an 
eminent  master,  and  since  that  time  resided  and  followed  his  profession 
in  Philadelphia  (from  which  place  the  yellow  fever  has  exiled  him),  flat- 
ters himself  to  be  able  to  afford  much  satisfaction  to  those  who  may 
favor  him  with  their  commands. 

[r^=  Specimens  may  be  seen  in  his  possession  which  will  testify  his 
abilities,  and  more  particularly  in  Bank  Work,  having  executed  the 
business  for  several  Banks  in  the  Southern  states ;  he  therefore  solicits 
the  attention  of  the  Banks  in  New  England,  as  there  appears  at  present 
to  exist  a  want  for  the  security  of  bills. 

In  the  month  of  May  following,  Akin  engraved  a  medal 
presented  by  the  Merrimack  Humane  Society  to  Captain  Gage 
'*  for  his  efforts  in  saving  the  lives  of  two  hundred  persons 
when  the  ship  Sarah  was  wrecked."  He  also  engraved  the 
frontispiece  for  a  poem,  in  two  parts,  published  by  Joseph 
Story,  in  Salem  in  1804,   entitled  "The  Power  of  Solitude." 

In  1805,  he  had  rooms  over  the  bookstore  of  Thomas  & 
Whipple,  in  Market  square,'  where  he  engraved  some  maps 
and  charts  for  Edmund  M.  Blunt,  publisher  of  the  American 
Coast  Pilot.  A  dispute  over  some  details  of  the  work  result- 
ed in  a  serious  quarrel,  and  Blunt,  seizing  a  heavy  iron  skillet, 
threw  it  at  Akin.  In  revenge  for  this  display  of  passion. 
Akin  published  a  caricature  called  "  Infuriated  Despondency," 
representing  Blunt  in  the  act  of  throwing  the  skillet.^  This 
engraving  he  sent  to  England,  with  instructions  to  have  it 
reproduced  by  the  manufacturers  of  crockery  ware  on  pitch- 
ers, wash  bowls  and  chamber  vessels.  A  large  number  of 
these  household  utensils  were  imported  and  sold  in  Newbury- 
port, but  most  of  them    were  purchased    by    the  friends  of 

'  Newburj'port  Herald,  January  S,  1805. 

'■^  The  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page  is  reproduced  from  an  engraving  now 
in  the  possession  of  Edward  H.  Little,  Toppan  street,  Newburj-port. 


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UlSTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Blunt  and  broken  up.     Only  a  few  specimens  have  been  pre- 
served by  collectors  of  old  crockery  ware. 

He  also  reproduced  this  engraving  on  writing-book  covers, 
as  stated  in  the  following  advertisement : — 

Book  Covers  just  published  and  for  sale  by  James  Akin,  by  the  single 
sheet  or  hundred,  three  numbers  of  Plate  I  entitled  No.  i  Turkeys,  No. 
2  Sailor's  Glee,  No.  3  Infuriated  Despondency. — calculated  for  Writing 
Book  covers  for  children,  and  adapted  with  singular  taste  to  amuse  their 
juvenile  fancy.' 

In  July,  1805,  Mr.  Blunt  entered  a  suit  for  hbel  against 
Akin,  which  was  decided,  after  a  long  and  bitter  contest,  in 
favor  of  the  defendant,  who  subsequently  published  the  fol- 
lowing notice  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  : — 

"  Secret  History  '"  a  la  mode  '■  St.  Cloud." 

As  public  curiosity  has  been  greatly  excited  relative  to  the  very  pecu- 
liar situation  in  which  I  have  been  placed  by  a  controversy  of  three 
years  standing,  and  as  rumor  has  caused  much  speculation  in  enquiries 
respecting  my  character,  which  from  various  causes  has  alternately  be- 
come the  theme  of  conversation  at  the  lire-side,  in  the  stage,  and  upon 
the  ocean,  perhaps  with  few  or  none  of  the  connecting  circumstances  to 
give  truth  its  proper  coloring, — I  am  actuated  from  a  sense  of  duty 
which  I  owe  to  the  reputation  of  my  family  and  to  my  honor,  to  lay  be- 
fore the  public,  with  a  rigid  adherence  to  truth,  minute  details  of  the 
abuse  of  power  that  has  been  practiced  towards  me  by  imprisonment 
and  unconstitutional  demands  for  excessive  bail,  the  effect  of  a  shame- 
ful collusion  oppressively  intended  and  wickedly  exercised  for  pretended 
■offences  presumed  to  have  been  committed  by  me  against  the  peace  and 
dignity  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  after  all  which  the 
Grand  Jury  was  discharged  without  finding  a  bill  of  indictment  against 
me. 

"  Vivat  republica,"  ••  \'ivent  Le  Laberte  et  L"Egalete.'" 

As  soon  as  I  can  conveniently  remove  to  Philadelphia,  it  will  be  put 
to  press,  and  shall  contain  the  full  value  of  One  Dollar,  at  which  price 
subscribers  are  solicited. 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  June  25,  1805. 


AUTHORS,  ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS  375 

Many  plates  from  entire  new  and  original  designs  made  expressly  for 
the  occasion  shall  accompany  the  work  ;  and  the  politician,  the  moralist 
and  the  critic  shall  find  a  record  of  events  as  strange  as  they  are  true. 

James  Akin. 
Author  of  the  "  Prairie  Dog," 

"  Infuriated  Despondency," 

'•  Bug  a  boo,"  &c  &c.' 

In  1805,  he  engraved  a  full-length  portrait  of  Lord  Timo- 
thy Dexter,  which  was  published  January  31,  1806,  as  stated 
in  the  following  advertisement : — 

Strange,  Wonderful  and   Philosophic. 

The  most  noble 

Lord  Timothy  Dexter 

First  in  the  East. 

This  day  published  and  for   sale  at    the   Bookstore   of  Thomas  and 

Whipple,  sign  of  Johnson's  Head,  Market  Square,  a  full  length  portrait 

of  this  Eccentric  Character  with  his  Dog,  engraved  from  Life,  bj- James 

Akin.2 

In  addition  to  his  work  as  an  engraver,  Akin  painted  in 
water  colors,  in  1807,  the  portrait  of  Thomas  Leavitt  of 
Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  and  the  portrait  of  his  wife  Hannah 
<Melcher)  Leavitt.^ 

The  frontispiece  of  the  "  Newburyport  Collection  of  Sa- 
rred,  European  Musick,"  published  in  1807,  was  engraved  by 
Akin.^  He  also  furnished  designs  for  book-plates.  In  a 
letter,  dated  Newburyport,  January  19,  1807,  now  in  the 
possession  of  the  Essex  Institute,  he  enclosed  the  sketch  of 
a  book-plate  intended  for  Ichabod  Tucker  of  Salem,  Mass. 
Three  book-plates,  exhibited  at  the  Art  museum  in  Boston  in 
1906,  were  credited  to  Akin,  and  described  as  follows  : — 

1  Newburyport  Herald,  Noveml)er  14,  1S06. 

2  Newburj'port  Herald,  January  31,  1806. 

3  Thomas  Leavitt  and  his  artist  friend,  James  Akin,   by    Frank    B.    Sanborn,   in 
•Granite  Monthly,  October,  1898. 

■*  Historj'  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  \,  page  481. 


376  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Several  books  lying  on  a  table.  On  the  cover  of  one  standing  upright 
is  the  name  of  Peter  A.  Browne.' 

The  arms  and  crest  of  Hector  Coffin,  bearing  his  name,  with  the 
motto,  Exstant  rede  factus  prae7>iia.'^ 

A  pile  of  books,  with  inkstand  and  quill,  and  the  name  of  Joseph  S. 
Lewis  on  the  topmost  volume.3 

In  1807,  the  following  advertisement  appeared  in  the  New- 
buryport  Herald  : — 

To  the  Inhabitants  of  Newburyport : 

The  public  are  respectfully  informed  of  my  intention  of  removing  to 
Philadelphia  by  the  way  of  New  York,  where,  if  uninterrupted  health 
prevails,  shall  be  traced -axxA  bitten  with  acid  for  their  amusement  some 
Phantasmagorial  subjects.  Those  who  benevolently  encouraged  my 
Little  labors  to  prevent  the  blunt  wearing  of  my  points  in  Legal  execu- 
tions will  please  accept  my  sincere  thanks. 

I  flatter  myself  that  no  distance  will  ever  lessen  the  gratitude  I  feel 
and  those  endeavors  to  please  which  I  have  manifestly  displayed  on  all 
occasions  where  I  have  been  employed. 

[r^^  Claimants  are  requested  to  present  their  accounts  for  settlement, 
and  should  there  be  delays  my  friend,  Mr.  Jacob  Perkins,  will  receive 
applications  in  my  absence. 

James  Akin.4 

In  1808,  Akin  returned  to  Philadelphia  and  notified  the 
inhabitants  of  that  city  that  he  resided  "just  above  the  upper 
Ferry,  over  the  Schuylkill,  where  he  means  to  pursue  his 
business." 

While  England  and  France  were  at  war,  in  1809,  he  de- 
signed and  published  an  engraving  called  "  Jefferson  milking 
the  cow,"  representing  Napoleon  holding  the  horns  of  the 
restive  animal  and  John  Bull  the  tail,  while  Jefferson,  takino; 
advantage  of  the  situation,  is  filling  American  pails  and  buck- 
ets with  good,  rich  milk. 

'  American  Book  Plates  (1894),  P'^g^  i'^- 
^  American  Book  Plates  (1894),  P^S^  \'&(). 
^  American  Book  Plates  (  1894),  page  236. 
^  Newburyport  Herald,  October  30,  1807. 


A  UTHORS,  AK  TIS  TS  AND  ENGRA  VERS  377 

The  fourth  vokime  of  the  works  of  Benjamin  Franklin, 
pubHshed  in  Philadelphia  in  1809,  by  William  Duane,  has  a 
portrait  of  the  distinguished  author  engraved  by  Akin  ;  and 
the  history  of  the  Heathen  Gods,  published  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  by  Isaiah  Thomas,  illustrated  by  several  artists,  has 
six  engravings  by  Akin,  as  follows  :  "  Diana  in  hunting 
habit  with  a  bow  in  her  hand  "  ;  "  Saturn,  holding  a  scythe  in 
one  hand  and  a  serpent  in  the  other  "  ;  "  Pan,  god  of  the 
woods  "  ;  "  Cybele,  seated  in  a  chariot  "  ;  "  Momus,  wearing 
his  mask  "'  ;  and  "  Satyr,  a  sylvan  demi-god,  in  human  shape, 
with  the  legs,  feet  and  tail  of  a  goat." 

In  181 1,  a  picture  of  Venus  and  Cupid,  "  taken  from  living 
models  "  painted  by  Jeremiah  Paul,  was  exhibited  "  at  the 
office  of  James  Akin,  engraver.  No.  22  Mulberry,  now  Arch, 
street,  Philadelphia."  At  a  later  date  Akin  published  an 
engraving  of  two  large,  well-fed  dogs,  representing  England 
and  the  United  States,  quarrelling  over  a  bone  marked 
"  Oregon."  During  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  had  an 
apothecary  store,  where  he  sold  drugs  and  medicines.  He 
died  in  Philadelphia  July  16,  1846,  aged  seventy-three. 

William  Hooker  was  an  engraver  in  Philadelphia  in  1805, 
and  probably  came  to  Newburyport  soon  after  that  date.  He 
engraved  for  Prince  Stetson  &  Co.,  in  1807,  an  advertising- 
card  or  broadside,  surmounted  by  a  quaint  and  picturesque 
view  of  Wolfe  tavern,  as  shown  in  the  print  on  the  next 
page.'  This  print  is  reproduced  from  a  copper  plate  engrav- 
ing now  in  the  possession  of  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem, 
Mass. 

Gideon  Fairman  was  born  June  26,  1774,  in  Fairfield 
county,  Connecticut.  He  came  to  Newburyport  and  was 
associated  with  William  Hooker  in  the  publication   of  writing 

'  The  statement  on  paf^e  503  of  "  Ould  Newbury : "  Biographical  and  Histori- 
cal Sketches,  that  James  Akin  engraved  this  view  of  Wolfe  tavern,"  is  probably 
incorrect. 


Respectfully  inform  the  Public. 
That  they  have  put  m  complete  upair  that  well  known 
TjWurn.  Eormerly  kept  by  M Davenport, 

James  'WqiljfeEs^^! 

State  Street , 

~NM  W  B  U  HTP  OUT. 

Wliere  thvse  M^ho  favour  them  with  their  custor/v 

shall  experie)ice  every  ccmve me )ice  and 

attentive    which  lliey  can  cermtia/iel. 


A  I  'THORS^  AR  TIS  TS  AND  EXGKA  VERS  379 

books  for  school  children.  In  May,  1808,  the  firm  of  Hooker 
&  Fairman  filed,  with  the  clerk  of  the  district  of  Massachu- 
setts, the  title  of  a  book  described  as  follows  : — 

Large  and  round  small  text,  round  and  runnin<^  hand.  Biographical 
copies  with  the  component  parts  of  the  letters,  an  alphabet  of  Capitals 
arranged  according  to  their  similarity,  <S;c  &c. 

Now  engraving  and  will  be  published  in  a  few  days,  as  above,  a  new 
set  of  German  Text  Copies." 

Nearly  a  month  later  Hooker  and  Fairman  were  engraving 
"  a  new  and  improved  chart  of  the  Gulf  and  River  of  St. 
Lawrence  "  for  Edmund  M.  Blunt,  publisher  of  the  Ameri- 
can Coast  Pilot. 3  Gideon  Fairman  removed  to  Philadelphia 
in  1 8 10,  and  was  afterwards  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Draper,  Murray  &  Fairman,  engravers.  He  died  in  that  city 
in  1827. 

William  Hooker  probably  remained  in  Newburyport  until 
1 81 5  or  later.  He  engraved  a  map  of  the  eastern  end  of  the 
Isle  of  Sable,  a  chart  of  Long  Island  Sound,  and  probably 
other  maps  and  charts  for  the  sixth  edition  of  the  American' 
Coast  Pilot,  published  by  Edmund  M.  Blunt  in  1809  ;  also,. 
several  plates  used  to  illustrate  a  poem,  translated  by  John 
Hoole  from  the  Italian  of  Torqueto  Tasso,  published  in  two 
volumes  by  Edward  Little  &  Co.  in  18 16. 

Soon  after  the  last-named  date  Hooker  removed  to  New 
York  City,  where  he  was  associated  with  Edmund  M.  Blunt 
in  publishing  charts  and  manufacturing  nautical  instruments- 
He  engraved  many  of  the  maps  and  charts  for  the  tenth 
edition  of  the  American  Coast  Pilot,  published  in  1822.  The 
sixteenth  edition  of  the  New  American  Practical  Navigator, 
published  in  New  York  in  1846,  has  several  engravings  by 
Hooker.  He  probably  died  in  that  city  while  the  book  was. 
being  prepared  for  the  press. 

'  Newburjport  Herald,  May  17,  1808. 
*  Newbun,'port  Herald,  June  10,  1808. 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

PHILANTHROPISTS    AND    BENEFACTORS. 

The  charitable  funds,  educational  institutions,  public  parks 
and  highways  of  Newburyport  have  been  established  or  main- 
tained and  improved  by  the  donations  and  bequests  of  many 
public-spirited  citizens.  Brief  biographical  sketches  of  the 
men  and  women  who  have  assisted  in  this  philanthropic  work 
will  be  found  in  the  following  pages. 

CONTRIBUTORS    TO    FUNDS    IN    AID    OF    THE    POOR. 

Timothy  Dexter,  son  of  Nathan  and  Esther  (Brintnall) 
Dexter,  was  born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  January  22,  1747-8.  He 
came  to  Newburyport  in  1769,  probably,  and  married.  May 
22,  1770,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Benjamin  Frothingham.  He 
was  fond  of  notoriety,  and  invented  fabulous  stories  for  the 
purpose  of  magnifying  his  wealth  and  imposing  upon  the 
credulity  of  his  fellow-townsmen,  as  will  more  fully  appear  in 
the  twenty-seventh  chapter  of  this  volume.  He  died  October 
22,  1806,  leaving,  by  his  will,  the  sum  of  two  thousand  dol- 
lars for  the  benefit  of  the  poor  of  the  town  of  Newburyport. 
This  was  probably  the  first  bequest  made  by  any  person  for 
any  purpose  to  the  inhabitants  of  Newburyport. 

Margaret  (Ford)  Atwood,  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
Sarah  Ford,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  May 
II,  1754.  She  married,  June  30,  1793,  Zachariah  Atwood. 
He  died  July  19,  1796,  leaving  two  sons,  only  one,  however, 
living  to  the  age  of  manhood. 

Margaret  (Ford)  Atwood  died  June  15,  1832.  Her  will, 
dated  August  2,  1830,  and  proved  August  7,  1832,  pro- 
vided   for    the    payment    of    her    just     debts    and    funeral 

380 


PIIILANTIIROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS  381 

expenses,  and  gave  to  her  son,  Zachariah,  during  his 
Hfe,  the  use  and  improvement  of  her  three-story  brick 
dwelHng  house  on  the  corner  of  Lime  street  and  Ann, 
now  Atwood  street,  Nevvburyport.  The  rest  and  residue  of 
her  estate,  after  the  payment  of  certain  legacies,  was  placed 
in  trust,  the  income  to  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  select- 
men of  Newburyport  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor.  It  was 
also  provided  that  all  legacies  terminated  by  law  or  by  the 
death  of  the  legatees,  unless  otherwise  provided  for,  should 
be  transferred  to  and  become  a  part  of  the  rest  and  residue." 
Moses  Merrill,  treasurer  of  the  town  of  Newburyport,  re- 
ceived from  the  estate  of  Margaret  (Ford)  Atwood  the  sum 
of  ten  thousand  one  hundred  and  eighty-eight  dollars,  for 
which  he  gave  a  note,  dated  June  15,  1837,  and  on  the  twelfth 
of  December  following  he  received,  from  the  same  estate, 
accrued  interest  on  the  above-named  sum,  amounting  to 
eleven  hundred  and  eighty-eight  dollars  and  eighty-seven 
cents. ^ 

Lucy  Maria  Follansbee,  daughter  of  Capt.  Thomas  M. 
and  Hannah  Follansbee,  was  born  in  Newburyport  November 
14,  181 5.  Her  father  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the 
Newburyport  Marine  Society.  He  died  January  9,  1821, 
leaving  a  widow  and  three  daughters,  Mary,  Caroline  and 
Lucy. 

Mary  married  Robert  Brookhouse  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1840, 
and  ten  or  fifteen  years  later  Caroline  and  Lucy  Maria  Fol- 
lansbee removed  to  that  city,  where  they  established  a  home 
for  themselves. 

Lucy  Maria  Follansbee,  the  survivor  of  her  immediate 
family,  died,  unmarried,  in  Salem,  in  November,  1873,  leaving 
to  the  city  of  Newburyport  the  sum  of  three  thousand  dol- 
lars, the  annual  income  thereof  to  be  expended  by  the  mayor 
and  aldermen  in  the  purchase  of  fuel  to  be  distributed  among 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  408,  leaf  389. 

"^  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  loi,  leaves  133  and  325. 


382 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


the  worthy  poor  of  the  city.  She  also  gave  the  sum  of  five 
thousand  dollars  to  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Fe- 
males, and  two  thousand  dollars  to  the  Newburyport  Marine 
Society.' 

Rev.  William  Horton,  D.  D.,  son  of  James  and  Nancy 
(Bassett)  Horton,  was  born  in  Newburyport  March  14,  1805. 
He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1 824,  and  six  years  later 
was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church.  September  i,  1830,  he  married  Mary  Evadne, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Ralph  Hill  French  of  Marblehead,  Mass. 
For  several  years  he  was  rector  of  St.  Paul's  church,  Wind- 
sor, Vt.,  Trinity  church,  Saco,  Me.,  St.  Thomas'  church, 
Dover,  N.  H.,  and  St.  Paul's  church,  Brookline,  Mass.  From 
September  i,  1853,  until  his  death,  October  29,  1863,  he  was 
rector  of  St.  Paul's  church,  Newburyport.  In  his  will  he 
provided  for  the  payment  of  one-quarter  part  of  his  estate, 
after  the  death  of  his  wife  and  mother,  to  the  city  of  New- 
buryport, for  the  purchase  of  land  and  the  erection  of  a  com- 
modious almshouse."^ 

Richard  W.  Drown,  son  of  Thomas  and  Comfort  (Wig- 
gin)  Drown,  was  born  in  South  Newmarket,  now  a  part  of  the 
town  of  Newfield,  N.  H.,  October  30,  1795.  He  came  to 
Newburyport  when  only  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of  age, 
learned  the  trade  of  a  clock  and  watch  maker,  and  married, 
October  30,  1823,  Miss  Phebe  Boardman. 

He  had  a  shop  on  the  northeasterly  side  of  Merrimack 
street,  opposite  the  foot  of  Green  street,  that  he  owned  and 
occupied  for  many  years. 

In  1842,  he  bought  of  Moses  Merrill  and  Stephen  W. 
Marston,  trustees  under  the  will  of  John  Greenleaf,  land  on 
which  he  built  the  two-story  frame  dwelling  house  still  stand- 
ing on  the  southeasterly  corner  of  High  and  Court  streets. ^ 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  December  9,  1873. 

2  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  245-247. 

*  Essex  Deeds,  book  331,  leaf  180. 


RKV.    WILLIAM    IIORTOX,    I).   I). 


384  H^S  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  7 

Mr.  Drown  died  August  15,  1888.  His  will,  dated  June 
II,  1888,  and  proved  on  the  tenth  of  September  following, 
provided  for  the  payment  of  several  bequests,  including  the 
sums  of  two  thousand  dollars  to  the  Howard  Benevolent  soci- 
ety and  two  thousand  dollars  to  the  Ladies'  General  Charita- 
ble society.  He  gave  the  use  and  improvement  of  the  house 
and  land  on  the  corner  of  High  and  Court  streets  to  his  son 
Thomas  S.  Drown  during  his  natural  life,  and  after  his  decease 
to  the  North  Congregational  church  and  society,  "  to  be  used 
only  for  a  parsonage  for  said  church  forever  ;  "  and  further 
provided  "  that  no  part  of  the  land  belonging  to  this  piece  of 
Real  Estate  be  ever  sold  by  said  church,  but  be  forever  re- 
tained by  them." 

All  the  residue  of  my  estate,  real,  personal  and  mixed,  wherever  it 
may  be  found,  and  of  whatsoever  it  may  consist.  I  order  and  direct  that  it 
be  placed  in  a  trust  fund  and  invested  in  one  or  more  New  England  city 
bonds  or  notes,  or  bonds  of  the  United  States,  and  the  income  from 
said  fund  to  be  paid  to  poor  and  indigent  men  bom  in  this  country  and 
residents  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  fifty  years  of  age  and  upwards, 
at  the  discretion  of  my  Trustee  hereafter  named,  and  his  successors  in 
office  forever.  1  order  and  direct  the  Trustee  of  this  fund  to  render  a 
yearly  account  to  the  Judge  of  Probate  of  Essex  County  of  the  condi- 
tion of  the  fund  and  a  detailed  account  of  the  expenditure  of  the  in- 
come. In  the  event  of  the  death  of  the  Trustee,  or  his  resignation  of 
the  care  of  this  trust,  I  refer  the  appointment  of  a  successor,  or  succes- 
sors, with  all  the  authority  given  to  my  Trustee  herein  named,  to  the 
Judge  of  Probate  having  jurisdiction  over  this  will.' 

Albert  W.  Greenleaf  was  appointed  trustee  in  September, 
1888.  He  died  January  3,  1899,  and  on  the  twenty-eighth 
of  March  following  William  F.  Houston,  the  present  trustee, 
was  appointed. 

The  income  of  the  fund,  amounting  to  about  seven  hun- 
dred dollars  annually,  is  distributed  among  a  large  number 
of  aged  and  worthy  men,  to  whom  it  is  of  great  assistance. 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  457,  page  530. 


PinLANTHKOPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS  385 

CONTRIBUTORS    TO    SCHOOL    FUNDS. 

Moses  Atkinson,  son  of  Ichabod  and  Priscilla  (Bailey) 
Atkinson,  was  born  in  Newbury  September  22,  1734.  He 
married,  May  19,  1757,  Mary  Merrill  of  Rowley,  Mass.  She 
died  August  16,  1780.  For  his  second  wife,  he  married,  in 
1 78 1,  Sarah  Hale  of  Hampstead,  N.  H.  He  died  previous  to 
July  5,  1 8 14,  and  by  his  will  gave  to  the  school  district  in 
which  he  had  resided,  in  Newbury,  a  certain  portion  of  his 
real  and  personal  estate,  "for  the  support  of  a  school  for 
reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  and  English  grammar."  When  a 
part  of  the  town  of  Newbury  was  annexed  to  Newburyport,  in 
185  I,  the  property  of  "School  District  Number  Two"  was 
conveyed  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  city  of  Newburyport,  to  be 
kept  and  used  for  the  purpose  named  in  the  will  of  the  testator.' 

Moses  Browx,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Pearson)  Brown, 
was  born  October  2,  1742,  in  that  part  of  Newbury  now 
within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  West  Newbury.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  prominent  and  influential  merchant  of  Newbury- 
port, where  he  died  February  9,  1827.  By  his  will,  he  gave 
the  sum  of  six  thousand  dollars  for  the  use  and  support  of  a 
grammar  school  in  Newburyport,  and  by  a  codicil  provided 
that  this  fund  should  accumulate  until  the  principal  and  inter- 
est amounted  to  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  when  the  income 
should  annually  be  appropriated  and  applied  to  the  support  of 
said  school.^ 

Oliver  Putnam,  son  of  Oliver  and  Sarah  (Lake)  Putnam, 
was  bom  in  Newbury  November  17,  1777.  He  attended 
school  until  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  was 
employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  P'arris  &  Stocker,  mer- 
chants and  importers,  in  Newburyport.  He  retained  that  po- 
sition for  several  years,  and  afterwards  made  several  prosper- 
ous voyages  as  supercargo  to  the  continent  of  Europe  and 
ports  in  South  America.     Having  acquired  a  small  fortune, 

'  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  409  and  410. 

"  "  Ould  Newbury  "  :    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  632-637 


386 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


he  decided,  on  account  of  ill  health,  to  retire  from  business, 
and  removed,  in  1802,  to  Hampstead,  N.  H.,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  small  farm,  and  lived  with  his  parents,  his  brother 
Thorndike  and  other  members  of  his  family,  until  his  death, 
July  1 1,  1826.' 

During  the  last  years  of  his 
life  he  devoted  much  time  to  the 
study  of  political  and  economic 
questions,  and  some  of  his  essays 
relating  to  the  protection  of 
domestic  industries  were  col- 
lected and  published,  in  1834,  in 
a  small  volume  entitled  "  Tracts 
on  Sundry  Topics  of  Political 
Economy."  His  library,  although 
small,  was  well  arranged  and  care- 
fully classified.  He  evidently  had 
two  book-plates,  engraved  at  dif- 
ferent dates,  as  shown  in  the  half- 


BOOK-PI.ATE. 


tone  prints  on  this  page. 
After  his  death,  a  certain 
portion  of  his  estate  was 
allowed  to  accumulate  until 
it  reached  the  sum  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars,  when  it 
was  paid  by  the  executor 
of  his  will  to  a  board  of 
trustees,  incorporated  April 
9,  1838,  for  the  purpose  of 
establishing  and  maintain- 
ing "  a  free  English  school 


BOOK-PLATE. 


'  Oliver  Putnam,  sr.,  sold  his  dwelling  house  in  Newbury  in  1797,  and  removed 
to  Haverhill,  Mass.  October  i,  1799,  he  sold  at  auction  "a  building  formerly 
occupied  as  a  Blacksmith's  Shop  near  the  hayscales,  corner  of  High  and  Marlbo- 
rough streets,  Newbury,"'  also  a  pew  and  one-half  of  a  pew  in  the  Rev.  Mr.  Moore's 
meeting-house  (Advertisement  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette). 
His  wife  died  in  Hampstead,  N.  H.,  in  iSii,  and  he  died  there  in  i8i8. 


PHILANTHROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS  387 

in  Newburyport  for  the  instruction  of  youth  wherever  they 
may  belong." 

On  the  fifteenth  of  March,  1844,  land  on  the  northwestej^y 
corner  of  Green  and  High  streets  was  purchased,  and  G.  J. 
F,  Bryant,  architect,  of  Boston,  was  employed  to  draw  the 
plans  for  a  large  and  commodious  school-house,  which  >vas 
erected  there  two  or  three  years  later.  : 

January  31,  1845,  Roger  S.  Howard  was  appointed  princi- 
pal of  the  school,  but  he  resigned  before  the  school-house  was 
completed,  and  William  H.  Wells  of  Andover,  Mass.,  was 
appointed,  May  24,  1847,  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

In  order  to  determine  whether  the  testator  by  his  will  intend- 
ed to  establish  a  school  for  the  instruction  of  girls  as  well  as 
boys  application  was  made  to  the  supreme  court  of  the  com- 
monwealth for  an  interpretation  of  the  will.  The  court  decided 
that  the  language  used  by  the  testator  was  broad  enough 
to  justify  the  trustees  in  establishing  a  school  for  both  sexes. 

On  the  sixth  and  seventh  of  April,  1848,  pupils  were  ex- 
amined for  admission  to  the  school.  Only  about  one-half  of 
those  who  applied  were  admitted.  Dedicatory  exercises  were 
held  in  the  school  building  April  12,  1848,  at  half-past  two 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon.'  The  principal,  William  H.  Wells, 
gave  an  interesting  and  appropriate  address,  which  was  fol- 
lowed by  brief  remarks  from  His  Excellency  George  N. 
Briggs,  governor  of  the  commonwealth. 

The  engraving  on  the  next  page,  reproduced  from  an  old 
wood  cut,  gives  a  view  of  the  school  building  as  it  was  in  1848. 

From  April,  1848,  to  July,  1868,  the  following-named  per- 
sons were  instructors  in  the  Putnam  Free  school  : — 

William  II.  Wells,     principal,  from  April,  1848,10  July,  1854. 
William  M.  Baker,  '••  "     Aug.,  1854,  to  Aug.,  1857. 

N.  W.  Metcalf,  »  "     Aug.,  1857,  to  Aug.,  1859. 

Hylas  T.  Wheeler,  '■  "     Aug.,  1859,  to  April,  1866. 

James  P.  French,  "  "     Aug,  1 866,  to  Oct.,  1 866. 

George  N.  Bigelow,         "  "     Oct.,  1866,  to  Aug.,  1868. 

'  History  of   Newburjport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  326-328. 


PIIILAX'JUROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS 


389 


Luther  Dame,  assistant, 

George  C.  Lincoln,  " 

Jeremiah  L.  Newton,       '• 
David  W.  Hoyt, 
Ira  M.  Moore,  " 

David  W.  Hoyt, 

John  A.  Douglass,  " 

Joseph  Boardman,  " 
Mary  Ann  Shaw,    preceptress. 

Marcia  D.  Kimball,  '• 

Mrs.  L.  J.  H.  Russell,  " 

Anna  D.  Reed,  " 

Arexine  G.  Parsons,  " 

Louisa  P.  Stone,  " 

Jane  Andrews,  •' 

Susan  N.  Brown.  " 

Margaret  Clarkson,  " 
Caroline  C.  Andrews,  assistant, 

Susan  Simpson.  " 

Margaret  Clarkson,  ■' 

Mary  Q.  Brown,-  '■ 

Mary  Little  Moody,  " 

Nancy  J.  Bigelow,  " 


from  April,  1848,  to  April,  1850. 
"     May,  1850,  to  July,  1850. 

"  Aug.,  1850,  to  Nov.,   1851. 

"  Dec,  1851,  to  March,  1853. 
"     April,  1853,  to  Nov.,  1853. 

"  Nov.,  1853,  to  July,  1854. 

"  Aug.,  1854,  to  March,  1856. 

"  April,  1856,  to  Nov.,  1857.' 

■•  April,  1848,  to  July,  1S51. 

"  Aug.,  1 85  I,  to  Nov.,  1 85 1. 

"  Dec.,  1 85 1,  to  March,  1S53. 

»  May,  1853,  to  July,   1853. 

"  August,  1853,  to  July,  1854. 

"  Aug.,  1854,  to  March,  1855. 

"  April,  1855.  to  July,  1855. 

«  Sept.,  1855,  to  April;   1866. 

"  Sept.,  1866,  to  Sept.,  1868. 

'•  Sept.,  1 85 1,  to  July,  1852. 

"  Sept.,  1852,  to  July,  1S53,  and 
April,  1853,  to  July,  1855. 

"  May,  1859.  to  Sept..  1866. 

"  Nov.,  1862,  to  Nov.,  1863. 

"  April,  1866,  to  Nov.,  1866.   •• 

»  Nov.,  1866,  to  July,  1868. 


After  a  long  controversy,  the  city  council  of  the  city  of 
Newburyport  and  the  trustees  of  the  Ptitnam  Free  school 
agreed,  in  1868,  upon  a  plan  uniting  the  Brown  high,  the 
Female  high  and  the  Putnam  Free  schools. ^  Since  that 
date  the  pupils  in  the  Putnam  Free  School  department  have 
had  the  following-named  instructors  : — 

1  In  addition  to  the  assistant  teachers  named  above,  William  H.  Merrill  was  an 
instructor  in  the  school  for  a  few  months  in  1854,  Edward  D.  Pritchard  in  1855  and 
1862,  John  \V.  Dodge  in  1857,  Austin  Dodge  in  1865  and  Charles  R.  Cross  in  1866. 

^  Assistant  teacher  during  the  illness  of  her  sister,  Susan  N.  Brown,  preceptress. 

■'  For  the  details  of  this  controversy  see  the  mayor's  message  to  the  city  council, 
June  I,  1868;  also,  editorial  comments  published  in  the  Newburyport  Herald 
August  eleventh  and  twelfth,  and  a  communication  from  Nathaniel  Pierce,  mayor, 
August  18,  1868.  Owing  to  this  long  controversy,  plans  for  enlarging  the  Putnam 
Free  School  building  were  delayed  somewhat,  but  during  the  fall  and  winter  the 
alterations  and  additions  were  made,  as  shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  next 
page. 


PHILANTHROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS  391 

Sylvester  liuniham,  principal,  from  Aug.,  1868,  to  Aug.,  1869. 

Amos  H.  Thompson,     "  •'  Sept.,  1869,  to  Oct.,  1881. 

Laroy  F.  Griffin,             "  "  Dec,  1881,  to  Jan.,   18S2. 

George  E.  Gay,             "  "  Jan.,  1882,  to  Nov.,  1883. 

Charles  D.  Seelye,         "  "  Dec, 1883,  to  Sept.,"  1885. 

Enoch  C.  Adams,           •'  '•  Oct..  1885,  to  July,  1896. 

George  A.  Dickey,         "  '•  Aug.,  1896,  to  Aug.,  1899. 

Walter  E.  Andrews.      "  "  Oct.,  1899,  to  the  present  time. 

Margaret  Clarkson,  preceptress,  •'  Sept.,  1868,  to  Aug,  1889. 

Sarah  W.   Pike,      assistant.  "  Aug.,  1868,  to  Aug.,  1 891. 

Elizabeth  G.  Bigelow,  •'  "  Sept.,  1883,  to  Sept.,   1885. 

Mary  Roulstone  Bond,  "  "  Sept..  1889,  to  April,  1898. 

Harriet  C.  Piper,'          "  "  Nov.,  1891,  to  June,  1904. 

Bertha  May  Stiles,^      •'  "  Nov.,  1891,  to  July,  1892. 

Isabella  H.  Howe,         "  •■  May,  1898,  to  August,  1899. 

Clio  M.  Chilcott.            •'  "  Sept.,  1899,  to  Sept.,  190S. 

Bertha  Bonart,               "  "  June,  1904,  to  Sept.,  190S. 

Ehzabeth  A.  Towle,     •'  "  Sept.  29,  1908,  to  the  present  time. 

Mabel  L.  Hayes,           "  ••  Sept.  29,  1908,  to  the  present  time. 

For  three  or  four  years  after  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Thomp- 
son as  principal,  the  scholarship  and  discipline  of  the  united 
schools  was  very  unsatisfactory,  owing  to  a  lack  of  harmony 
among  the  teachers  and  other  incidental  causes.  The 
appointment  of  Enoch  C.  Adams,  however,  in  October, 
1885,  led  to  the  introduction  of  new  and  improved  methods 
of  teaching  and  the  adoption  of  a  higher  standard  of  scholar- 
ship. He  had  charge  of  the  consolidated  school  for  eleven 
years,  and  his  resignation  in  1896  was  accepted  with  great 
regret,  as  stated  in  the  following  tribute  of  respect  placed  on 
record  by  the  trustees  of  the  Putnam  Free  school : — ^ 

Mr.  Adams  took  charge  of  the  school  when  its  condition  was  unsatis- 
factory, and  by  his  superior  ability  and  discretion  promptly  succeeded  in 
raising  it  to  a  high  standard  of  excellence.    With  ample  scholarly  equip- 

'  Miss  Piper  was  granted  leave  of  absence  in  May,  1897,  and  Miss  Sarah  L. 
Merrill  was  employed  as  an  assistant  in  her  place  for  one  year, 

^  One-half  the  salary  paid  to  Miss  Stiles  was  by  special  agreement  charged  to 
the  Putnam  Free  School  fund,  and  one-half  to  the  city  of  Xewburyport. 

^  Mr.  Enoch  C.  Adams  is  now  principal  of  the  high  school  in  Newton,  Mass. 


392 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


ment,  he  has  shown  rare  energy  and  capacit}-  for  the  organization  and 
wise  direction  of  such  an  institution. 

His  character  and  conscientious  devotion  to  his  dutj- have  commanded 
the  entire  respect  and  confidence  of  his  pupils,  his  assistants,  of  this 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  of  the  people  of  Newburyport  and  vicinity 
whose  sons  and  daughters  constitute  the  membership  of  the  united 
Newburyport  High  and  Putnam  Free  Schools. 

It  is  with  profound  regret  that  we  accept  his  resignation,  not  only 
because  we  are  to  be  deprived  of  the  benefit  of  his  professional  services, 
but  also  because  we  feel  that  his  departure  is  a  distinct  loss  to  our  social, 
political,  and  religious  life. 

In  1902,  the  city  of  Newburyport,  by  right  of  eminent 
domain,  took  possession  of  the  land  and  building  owned  by 
the  trustees  of  the  Putnam  Free  school.  Extensive  repairs 
and  alterations  were  made  for  the  better  accommodation  of  the 
male  and  female  high  schools,  and  the  instruction  of  pupils 
connected  with  the  Putnam  Free  school  was  provided  for  by 
a  new  agreement,  which  has  been  annually  renewed  from 
August,  1902,  to  the  present  time. 

William  Wheelwright,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Anna 
(Coombs)  Wheelwright,  was  born  March  16,  1798,  in  a  house 
then  standing  on  the  easterly  side  of  Water  street,  at  the  head 
of  Coombs'  wharf,  near  Lime  street.  He  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  Newburyport,  and  completed  his  education  at 
Phillips'  academy  in  Andover,  Mass.  When  only  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  shipped  as  cabin  boy  on  board  a  vessel  bound 
to  the  West  Indies,  and  soon  became  a  subordinate  officer 
and  afterward  captain  of  the  vessel.  In  1823,  he  was  in 
command  of  the  ship  "  Rising  Empire  "  when  she  was 
wrecked  off  the  coast  of  South  America,  near  the  mouth  of 
the  river  La  Plata.  A  few  months  later  he  sailed  as  super- 
cargo in  a  vessel  bound  from  Buenos  Ayres  to  Valparaiso.  In 
1825,  he  was  appointed  United  States  consul  at  Guayaquil, 
then  the  most  important  port  on  ihe  Pacific  coast.  Returning 
to  Newburyport  in  1828,  he  married,  February  10,  1829, 
Martha  Gerrish,  daughter  of  Edmund  and   Zilpah   (Gerrish) 


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393 


Bartlet,  and  a  few  weeks  later  sailed,  with  his  wife,  in  a  small 
vessel  from  New  York  for  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  thence 
to  Guayaquil,  where  he  found  the  business  firm  with  which 
he  was  connected  involved  in  serious  financial  difficulties, 
owing  to  the  mismanagement  of  a  partner.  In  order  to  re- 
trieve his  shattered  fortune  Mr.  Wheelwright  removed  to 
Valparaiso,  Chile,  and  devoted  his  time  and  attention  to  the 
development  of  local  industries,  the  organization  of  the  Pacific 
Steam  Navigation  Company  and  the  establishment  of  a  line 
of  steamers  to  and  from  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  connecting 
Valparaiso  with  the  continent  of  Europe.  Subsequently,  he 
became  interested  in  a  plan  to  unite  the  Pacific  and  Atlantic 
coast  by  a  railway  over  the  mountain  range  that  separates 
Chile  from  the  Argentine  Republic.  Unable  to  secure  the 
co-operation  of  the  Chilian  government,  Mr.  Wheelwright 
decided  to  remove  to  Buenos  Ayres,  where,  after  three  years 
of  persistent  labor,  he  succeeded  in  obtaining  grants  of  land 
and  other  concessions  that  led  to  the  organization  of  the 
Grand  Central  Argentine  Railway  Company  and  the  con- 
struction of  the  road  from  Rosario  on  the  Parana  river,  one 
hundred  and  eighty-nine  miles  above  Buenos  Ayres,  to  Cor- 
dova, Central  Argentina,  a  distance  of  two  hundred  and  forty- 
six  miles.  He  afterwards  organized  the  Ensenada  Railway 
Company,  and  built  the  road  connecting  the  bay  or  port  of 
Ensenada  with  the  city  of  Buenos  Ayres. 

On  account  of  ill  health,  he  decided,  in  May,  1873,  to 
visit  England  and  take  medical  advice.  The  v^oyage  seemed 
to  strengthen  and  invigorate  him,  but  during  the  summer  he 
grew  weaker,  and  died  in  London  September  26,  1873.  On 
the  seventeenth  of  October  following  he  was  buried  in  Oak 
Hill  cemetery,  Newburyport.' 

^  Life  and  Industrial  Labors  of  \\'illiam  Wheelwright  in  .South  America,  by 
Senor  J.  B,  Alberdi;  History  of  Essex  County,  compiled  by  D.  Hamilton  Hurd, 
volume  n,  pages  1820- 1826;  "  Ould  Newbury":  Historical  and  Biographical 
Sketches,  pages  65 1-658;  The  Arena,  December,  1906,  pages  591-602,  and  January, 
1907,  pages  31-38;    and  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  329. 


WILLIAM   WHEELWRIGHT. 


PHILANTHROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS 


395 


Two-ninths  of  his  estate  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  trus- 
tees, "  the  income  to  be  applied  to  the  assistance  of  such 
Protestant  young  men  of  the  city  of  Newburyport  as  the  said 
trustees  shall  consider  deserving  and  meritorious,  in  obtaining 
a  scientific  education."  Since  1882,  the  graduates  of  the 
Newburyport  high  school,  wishing  to  continue  their  studies  in 
chemistry,  mineralogy  or  civil  engineering,  have  had  their 
tuition  and  other  expenses  paid  at  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology,  the  Lawrence  Scientific  school  and  similar 
institutions,  by  the  trustees  of  the  Wheelwright  fund.  This 
fund  now  amounts  to  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars, — 
a  sum  exceeding  the  total  amount  of  all  other  donations  and 
bequests  to  the  city  of  Newburyport,  including  gifts  to  the 
Public  library,  the  Anna  Jaques  hospital  and  other  public 
institutions. 

The  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page  is  reproduced 
from  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Wheelwright  in  the  possession  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Wheelwright  fund. 

Robert  Noxon  Toppan,  son  of  Charles  and  Laura  Ann 
(Noxon)  Toppan',  was  born  in  Philadelphia  October  17, 
1836.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1858,  and  after- 
wards attended  the  law  school  at  Columbia  college.  June  4, 
1 86 1,  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  but  the 
next  year  closed  his  office  and  went  to  Europe,  where  he 
remained  with  his  father,  mother  and  other  members  of  his 
family  for  ten  or  fifteen  years.  He  married,  October  6,  1880, 
Sarah  Moody  Cushing,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah 
Moody  (Stone)  Cushing,  and  lived  in  Newburyport  for  two 
or  three  years  after  that  date,  when  he  removed  to  Cambridge, 
Mass.  February  17,  1887,  he  gave  to  the  city  of  Newbury- 
port the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  the  income  to 
be  awarded  annually  "  to  the  member  of  the  senior  class  of 
the  Brown  high,  the  Female  high,  and  Putnam  P'ree  schools, 

1  Charles  Toppan  was  a  native  of  Newburyport,  and  for  many  years  president 
of  the  American  Bank  Note  Company. 


396 


HI  ST  OR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


now  consolidated,  who  shall  pass  the  best  examination  in  the 
fundamental  principles  of  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States  and  of  the  local  governments." 

Mr.  Toppan  died  in  Cambridge  May  lo,  1901,  leaving  a 
widow  and  three  children.  He  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  cem- 
etery, Newburyport. 

CONTRIBUTORS    TO    STREET    AND    PARK    IMPROVEMENTS. 

John  Bromfield,  son  of  Henry  and  Margaret  (Fayer- 
weather)  Bromfield,  was  born  in  Boston  January  6,  1743.  He 
probably  came  to  Newburyport  soon  after  the  incorporation 
of  the  town  in  1764,  and  married,  May  3,  1770,  Ann  Rob- 
erts, daughter  of  Robert  Roberts.  June  9,  1 771,  he  pur- 
chased of  his  father-in-law,  Robert  Roberts,  a  lot  of  land  on 
the  southeasterly  side  of  King,  now  Federal,  street,  near  the 
corner  of  a  two-rod  way,  now  Prospect  street/  On  this  lot 
of  land  he  erected  a  dwelUng  house,  where  he  lived  for  ten 
or  twelve  years.  In  1 794,  after  his  removal  from  Newbury- 
port, he  conveyed  the  whole  or  part  of  this  land,  "  bounded 
by  land  owned  by  the  town  of  Newburyport  where  the  work 
house  stands,"  to  Sarah  Roberts,  and  in  1798  gave  a  quit- 
claim deed  of  the  property  to  Alice,  wife  of  Stephen  Hooper.'' 

John  Bromfield,  jr.,  second  son  and  fourth  child  of  John 
and  Ann  (Roberts)  Bromfield,  was  born  in  Newburyport 
April  7,  1779.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Dummer  Acad- 
emy, but  did  not  apply  for  admission  to  Harvard  on  account 
of  ill  health.  He  became  interested  in  commercial  pursuits, 
and  made  several  voyages,  as  supercargo,  to  Europe  and  the 
East  Indies,  accumulating  a  large  fortune,  which  he  carefully 
invested. 

Living  in  Boston  during  the  last  years  of  his  life,  he  gave, 
in  1845,  to  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand   dollars.      He   died  in  that 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  133,  leaf  172. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  157,  leaf  224,  and  book  164,  leaf  200, 


PIIILAXTHROPISTS  AND  BENEFACTORS 


39  7 


city  December  8,  1849,  unmarried,  and  was  buried  in  Oak 
Hill  cemetery,  Nevvburyport. 

His  will,  proved  January  14,  1850,  provided  for  the  distri- 
bution of  more  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  various 
charitable  and  benevolent  societies  in  Boston  and  vicinity,  and 
also  authorized  and  directed  "  that  the  sum  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  be  invested  at  interest  in  the  Hospital  Life  Insurance 
Company,  in  the  city  of  Boston,  so  and  in  such  manner  as 
that  the  selectmen,  or  other  duly  authorized  agents  of  the 
town  of  Nevvburyport  for  the  time  being,  may,  annually,  re- 
ceive the  interest  which  shall  accrue  or  become  payable  for  or 
in  respect  of  said  deposit ;  and  I  direct  that  by  or  in  behalf 
of  said  town,  the  interest  so  received  shall  be  annually  ex- 
pended, one-half  in  keeping  the  sidewalks  in  the  public  streets 
of  said  town  in  good  order,  and  the  other  half  in  the  planting 
and  preserving  trees  in  said  streets  for  the  embellishing  and 
ornamenting  of  said  streets  for  the  pleasure  and  comfort  of 
the  inhabitants." 

These  bequests  have  been  of  great  benefit  to  the  commu- 
nity where  he  resided  for  many  years,  and  especially  to  the 
town  where  he  was  born  and  begun  his  business  career. 
When  a  part  of  Newbury  was  annexed  to  Newburyport,  in 
185  I,  South  street,  the  dividing  line  between  the  two  towns, 
was  planted  with  shade  trees,  the  sidewalks  repaired,  and  the 
name  changed  to  Bromfield  street,  in  honor  of  John  Brom- 
field,  the  sagacious  merchant  and  benefactor  of  the  town. 

Michael  Hodge  Simpson,  son  of  Paul  and  Abigail  (Hodge) 
Simpson,  was  born  in  Newburyport  November  15,  1809.  He 
completed  his  education  at  an  early  age,  and  was  employed  in 
the  commission  house  of  Adams  &  Emery  of  Boston  for  two 
or  three  years,  and,  after  that  firm  was  dissolved,  by  Jonathan 
Emery  &  Son,  who  continued  the  business.  He  was  allowed 
to  send  ventures  on  his  own  account  to  foreign  ports,  and  so 
laid  the  foundation  of  his  future  business  career.  When  only 
twenty  years  of  age  he  had  established  himself  in  the  general 


398 


HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  JVB  UK  YPOK  T 


commission  business  at  No.  38  India  wharf,  Boston,'  and 
subsequently,  in  company  with  George  Otis,  son  of  Harrison 
Gray  Otis,  began  the  importation  of  hides,  horns  and  wool 
from  Calcutta  and  South  America. 

In  1837,  he  was  elected  agent  of  the  woolen  mills  at  Saxon- 
ville,  Mass.,  organized  under  the  name  of  the  New  England 
Worsted  Company,  and  held  that  position  until  the  wide- 
spread financial  disasters  of  1857  caused  the  failure  of  the 
company.  With  the  assistance  of  some  friends,  he  purchased 
the  mills,  which,  under  his  sole  management,  were  remarka- 
bly prosperous,  and  led  to  the  building  of  the  Roxbury  Carpet 
Mills  a  few  years  later.  He  retained  the  management  of 
these  two  large  manufacturing  enterprises  until  his  death. 

Mr.  Simpson  married,  December  24,  1832,  Elizabeth  D., 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  Kilham  of  Boston.  She  died,  leaving 
three  children,  one  son  and  two  daughters. 

In  September,  1880,  Mr.  Simpson  built  a  plank  road  on 
Plum  island,  extending  from  the  hotel  to  the  seashore,  and  in 
November  of  that  year  erected  a  cottage  near  the  beach,  which 
he  occupied  during  the  summer  months.  He  gave  twenty-five 
hundred  dollars  for  the  improvement  of  Bartlet  mall,  eighteen 
thousand  dollars  for  the  enlargement  of  the  Public  Library 
building,  and  at  his  death  bequeathed  the  sum  of  twenty 
thousand  dollars  to  the  city  of  Newburyport,  the  annual  income 
to  be  expended  in  sprinkling  the  streets. 

He  married,  June  i,  1882,  at  his  residence  in  Saxonville,, 
Miss  Evangeline  Marrs  of  Saxonville,  Rev.  Lucius  R.  East- 
man of  Framingham  officiating.  He  died  at  his  residence  in 
Boston  December  22,  1884,  leaving  no  children  by  his  second 
wife. 

His  portrait,  painted  by  Edgar  Parker  of  Boston,  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Newburyport  Public  library  two  or  three  months 
previous  to  his  death. 

1  Advertisement  in  Newburyport  Herald,  Februaiy  19,  1830. 


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399 


Eunice  (Atkinson)  Currier,  daughter  of  Matthias  and 
Abigail  (Bayley)  Atkinson,  was  born  in  Newbury  September 
29,  1782.'  She  married,  September  15,  1835,  Moses  Coffin 
Currier,  a  widower  with  three  sons,  Moses  Atkinson,  John 
and  Leonard.  Her  husband  died  September  23,  1858.  She 
died  May  18,  1873,  and  gave,  in  her  will,  to  the  city  of 
Newburyport,  upon  certain  conditions,  several  acres  of  land 
on  High  street,  near  the  junction  of  Moseley  and  Storey  ave- 
nues and  the  Ferry  road,  so  called,  "  to  be  known  forever  as 
Atkinson  Common. "- 

In  addition  to  the  gifts  and  bequests  named  above,  several 
statues,  drinking  fountains,  tablets  and  other  memorials  of 
value  have  been  presented  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  by  the 
following-named  persons. 

Daniel  Ingalls  Tenney,  son  of  Richard  and  Ruth  (In- 
galls)  Tenney,  was  born  in  Newburyport  May  2,  1800,  and 
gave,  in  1877,  the  bronze  lamp-posts,  with  plate-glass  lan- 
terns, that  stand  in  front  of  City  hall,  and,  in  1879,  the  statue 
of  Washington  at  the  southeasterly  end  of  Bartlet  mall.  Mr. 
Tenney  was  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  a  wholesale  and  re- 
tail dealer  in  silver  ware  and  jewelry  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  died,  unmarried,  November  23,  1881. 

William  H.  Swasev,  son  of  Henry  S.  and  Sarah  (Rogers) 
Swasey,  who  gave  the  statue  of  William  Lloyd  Garrison,  in 
Brown  square,  designed  and  modeled  by  David  M.  French  of 
Newburyport,  was  born  in  Thomaston,  Maine,  May  15,  1823, 
and  came  with  his  father,  mother  and  brothers  to  Newbury- 
port when  he  was  only  seventeen  years  of  age.  He  found 
employment  as  shipping  clerk  with  the  firm  of  John  Wood  & 

'  Matthias  Atkinson  was  a  soldier  in  ("apt.  Moses  Little's  company  that  marched 
from  Newbury,  April  19,  1775,  ^o  re-inforce  the  colonial  troops  at  Lexington  and 
Concord.  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Atkinson,  who  settled  in  Newbury 
in  1662. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  2  19-221. 


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Son,  and  four  or  five  years  later  begun  business  at  the  corner 
of  Ferry  wharf  and  Water  street,  in  company  with  Eben 
Sumner,  removing  to  the  brick  store  at  the  corner  of  Com- 
mercial wharf  and  Water  street  in  1854,  when  Warren  Cur- 
rier was  admitted  to  a  partnership  in  the  business,  and  the 
firm-name  changed  to  Sumner,  Swasey  &  Currier,  Twenty 
years  later,  Mr.  Swasey  was  interested,  with  Elisha  P.  Dodge, 
in  the  manufacture  of  ladies'  boots  and  shoes,  and  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  Towle  Manufacturing  Company,  incorporated 
in  1880,  for  the  manufacture  of  silver  ware. 

In  addition  to  the  statue  of  Garrison  presented  to  the  city, 
Mr.  Swasey  has  aided  the  Belleville  Improvement  society,  the 
Soldiers'  Monument  association,  the  South  End  reading 
room,  and  other  organizations,  with  liberal  gifts  of  money, 
and  has  devoted  much  time  to  the  study  of  local  history. 

He  married,  October  20,  1852,  Susan,  daughter  of  James 
and  Susan  Babson  of  West  Newbury,  Mass.  She  died  in 
Newburyport  February  i,  1907,  leaving  no  children. 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Taggard  of  East  Boston  gave,  in  1898,  the 
drinking  fountain  at  the  corner  of  High  and  Auburn  streets, 
in  memory  of  her  husband,  Cyrus  Henry  Taggard. 

William  Henry  Bartlett,  son  of  Henry  A.  and  Hannah 
(Bishop)  Bartlett,  was  born  in  Newburyport  September  30, 
1842.  He  enhsted,  in  1862,  in  company  A  of  the  forty- 
eighth  Massachusetts  regiment,  under  the  command  of  Col. 
Eben  F.  Stone.  His  term  of  service  having  expired  in  July, 
1863,  he  re-enlisted,  and  served  in  company  B,  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  until  July  30,  1864. 

He  was  afterwards  a  school  teacher  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  July  5,  1904.  He  provided 
in  his  will  for  the  erection  of  a  fountain  in  Gushing  park,  at 
a  cost  not  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars.  The  fountain  was 
completed  and  dedicated  with  an  appropriate  address  by 
Nathan  N.  Withington,  esq.,  June  16,  1906. 


PHILANTUROriSrS  AND  BENEFACTORS  401 

The  fountain  in  the  centre  of  Frog  pond  was  given  to  the 
city  of  Newburyport  in  1891,  by  Edward  S.  Moseley,  in 
memory  of  his  father,  Ebenezer  Moseley,  who  was  a  promi- 
nent lawyer  in  the  town  from  1805  to  1850,  and  interested 
in  the  enlargement  and  improvement  of  Bartlet  mall  at  the 
beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

The  drinking  fountain  at  the  junction  of  Storey  and  Mose- 
ley avenues  and  the  Ferry  road,  so  called,  was  the  gift  of 
John  T.  Brown,  in  1894,  in  memory  of  his  wife,  Ellen  T. 
Brown. 

The  drinking  fountain  at  the  corner  of  High  and  Toppan 
streets  was  presented  to  the  city  in  1897  by  Paul  A.  Merrill. 

The  monument  to  the  soldiers  and  sailors  who  served  in  the 
Civil  war,  designed  and  modeled  by  Mrs.  Theo  Alice  (Rug- 
gles)  Kitson,  wife  of  Henry  Hudson  Kitson  of  Boston,  was 
erected  on  Atkinson  common  by  an  association  of  represen- 
tative citizens,  and  dedicated  July  4,  1902.' 

The  contributors  to  the  funds  held  for  the  benefit  of  the 
charitable  and  benevolent  societies,  for  the  old  ladies'  home, 
the  old  men's  home,  the  Anna  Jaques  hospital,  the  Homoeo- 
pathic hospital,  the  young  men's  and  the  young  w^omen's 
Christian  associations  and  other  organizations,  are  too  nu- 
merous to  be  printed  in  this  volume,  but  the  names  of  the 
generous  donors  will  be  found  in  the  published  reports  of 
the  above-named  societies. 

'  Histor)'  of  Newburj-port  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  220  and  221. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

CONTRIBUTORS    TO    THE    PUBLIC    LIBRARY    FUND. 

In  September,  1854,  Hon.  Josiah  Little  gave  five  thousand 
dollars  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  for  the  purpose  of  estab- 
lishing a  free  public  library  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants 
of  Newbury,  West  Newbury  and  Newburyport,  and  Hon. 
Charles  Jackson  and  Col.  Samuel  Swett  of  Boston  gave  a 
large  and  valuable  collection  of  books  and  pamphlets  for  the 
same  purpose.  These  and  other  contributors  who  have  made 
the  library  what  it  is  to-day  are  entitled  to  unqualified  praise 
for  their  disinterested  benevolence.  Who  they  were  and  what 
they  did  to  promote  and  encourage  the  study  of  literature 
and  art  in  this  community  is  briefly  told  in  the  following  bio- 
graphical sketches. 

JosiAH  Little,  son  of  Col.  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Toppan) 
Little,  was  born  in  Newbury  January  13,  1791.  He  gradu- 
ated at  Bowdoin  college  in  181 1,  and  married,  January  24, 
1 8 14,  Sophronia  Balch,  daughter  of  John  Balch  of  Newbury- 
port. Although  the  owner  of  large  tracts  of  land  in  Maine 
and  New  Hampshire,  he  was  interested  in  various  manufac- 
turing enterprises,  and  devoted  considerable  time  and  atten- 
tion to  the  development  of  local  industries.  In  1839  and 
1840,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate,  and  in 
1854  became  interested  in  a  plan  to  establish  a  free  public 
library  in  Newburyport,  and  gave  the  municipal  authorities 
the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  to  be  devoted  to  the  purchase 
of  books.  A  room  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  City  hall 
was  fitted  up  for  the  use  of  the  library,  and  dedicated  with 
appropriate  exercises  September  5,  1855.     The  half-tone  print 

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403 


on  this  pas^^e  is  reproduced  from  a  photograjih  taken  soon  after 
the  last-named  date. 

Mr.  Little  died  February  5,  i860,  leaving  no  children.    His 
widow,  Sophronia  (Balch)  Little,  died  June  24,  1872. 


■^IAH       1,1   ri  I.E. 


Charles  Jackson,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Tracy) 
Jackson,  was  born  in  Newbury  port  May  31,  1775.  He  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  college  in  1793,  and  read  law  for  three 
years  in  the  office  of  Theophilus  Parsons.  In  1795,  he  mar- 
ried Amelia  Lee,  daughter  of  Joseph  Lee  of  Salem,  Mass., 
and  in  1 796  opened  a  law  office   in   Newburyport,  where  he 


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HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


resided  until  1803,  when  he  removed  to  Boston.  His  wife, 
Amelia  (Lee)  Jackson,  died  in  1809,  and,  in  December,  18 10, 
he  married  his  second  wife,  Frances  Cabot,  daughter  of  John 
Cabot  of  Beverly,  Mass. 

In  18 1 3,  he  was  appointed  associate-justice  of  the  supreme 
judicial  court  of  Massachusetts,  and  held  that  office  for  ten 
years,  resigning  in  1823  on  account  of  ill  health.  Several 
years  later  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  Boston,  and  in 
1854  gave  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  a  large  collection  of 
books  and  pamphlets  for  the  library  founded  by  Hon.  Josiah 
Little.     He  died  in  Boston  December  13,  1855.' 

Samuel  Swett,  son  of  Dr.  John  Barnard  and  Charlotte 
(Bourne)  Swett,  was  born  in  Newburyport  June  9,  1782.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  the  year  1800,  and  read  law 
with  Hon.  Jeremiah  Smith  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  afterwards 
with  Hon.  Charles  Jackson  and  Hon.  Edward  St.  Loe  Liv^er- 
more. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Essex  bar  in  1805,  and  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  Salem,  Mass.,  where  he  married,  August 
25,  1807,  Lucia  Gray,  daughter  of  William  Gray.  In  18 10, 
he  removed  to  Boston,  and  became  interested  in  mercantile 
affairs.  For  more  than  thirty  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  William  B.  Swett  &  Co.,  and  during  that  time  was  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  newspapers  of  the  day.  At  a 
later  date  he  published  historical  and  topographical  sketches 
of  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill,  and  several  other  pamphlets  of 
local  historical  interest.  In  1854  he  gave  to  the  city  of 
Newburyport  a  valuable  collection  of  books  and  pamphlets 
for  the  use  of  the  Public  library  established  in  September  of 
that  year.     He  died  in  Boston  October  28,  1866.- 

'  Memoirs  of  Dr.  James  Jackson,  by  Dr.  James  Jackson  Putnam,  pages  98- 127; 
also,  page  269  of  this  volume. 

'-  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  volume  XXI,  pages  374 
and  375. 


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405 


Matthias  Plant  Sawver,  son  of  Dr.  Moses  and  Hannah 
(Little)  Sawyer,  was  born  in  Newbury  July  11,  1788.  His 
father  died  August  5,  1799,  and  his  mother  married,  July  3, 
1807,  Col.  James  Burnham,  and  removed  with  her  children  to 
Portland,  Maine.  Matthias  Plant  Sawyer  lived  in  that  city 
for  six  or  eight  years,  and  then  became  interested  in  commer- 
cial affairs  in  Boston,  where  he  accumulated  a  handsome  prop- 
erty. He  owned  and  occupied  for  many  years  a  large  three- 
story  brick  dwelling  house,  on  the  corner  of  Park  and  Beacon 
streets,  with  an  unobstructed  view  of  the  state  house  and 
Boston  common.  He  died,  unmarried,  March  31,  1857,  and 
by  the  terms  of  his  will  gave  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  the 
sum  of  live  thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  used  in  the 
purchase  of  books  for  the  Public  library. 

George  Peabody,  son  of  Thomas  and  Judith  (Dodge) 
Peabody,  was  born  February  18,  1795,  in  South  Danvers, 
now  Peabody,  Mass.  When  only  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of 
age  he  came  to  Newburyport  and  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in 
a  dry-goods  store  on  State  street,  kept  by  his  brother  David 
Peabody  and  Samuel  Swett,  under  the  firm -name  of  David 
Peabody  &  Co.  Soon  after  the  disastrous  fire  that  destroyed 
much  valuable  property  in  Newburyport,  in  181  i,  he  decided 
to  accompany  his  brother.  Gen.  John  Peabody,  to  George- 
town, D.  C,  and  sailed  for  that  port  May  4,  1812,  in  the  brig 
Fame. 

In  1814  he  returned  to  Xewburyport  on  a  visit,  which  lasted  several 
monlhs,  during  which  time  he  boarded  at  Lock's  Hotel,  on  the  corner  of 
State  and  High  streets.  Capt.  Blakely  and  other  officers  of  the  U.  S. 
sloop-of-war  Wasp,  then  fitting  for  a  cruise,  were  at  the  same  hotel. 
Capt.  Blakely  married  at  this  time  and  brought  his  wife  to  the  hotel  from 
her  native  place  at  Santa  Cruz.' 

February  22,  18 14,  the  Wasp  sailed  for  Portsmouth,  N. 
H.,  where  she  received   her  armament    and    sailed  again  in 

^  Newburyport  Herald,  January  2y,  1863. 


4o6  HISTOR  V  OF  NE  JVB  UR  YPOR  T 

April  for  a  cruise  on  the  English  coast.  A  few  months 
later,  George  Peabody,  in  company  with  Elisha  Riggs,  began 
business  as  a  wholesale  dealer  in  dry-goods  in  Alexandria, 
D.  C.  The  firm  removed  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1815,  and  sub- 
sequently established  branch  houses  in  New  York  and  Phila- 
delphia. In  1837,  he  was  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of 
George  Peabody  &  Co.,  bankers  and  brokers,  in  London,  and 
soon  became  a  large  dealer  in  American  securities.  In  1856, 
he  returned  to  the  United  States  for  a  brief  visit,  and  on  the 
second  of  October  attended  the  Essex  County  Agricultural 
fair  in  Newburyport.  He  arrived  at  the  railroad  station,  near 
the  head  of  State  street,  on  the  morning  of  that  day,  and  was 
received  by  a  committee  of  citizens, — ex-mayor  Moses  Daven- 
port, chairman, — and  escorted  to  the  fair  grounds,  and  after- 
wards to  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Religious  Society  on 
Pleasant  street,  where  an  eloquent  address  was  delivered  by 
Major  Ben  :  Perley  Poore,  of  West  Newbury.  At  the  close 
of  the  exercises  in  the  meeting-house,  dinner  was  served  in  a 
large  tent  erected  on  land  belonging  to  the  estate  of  Moses 
Brown,  at  the  corner  of  High  and  State  streets,  but  Mr. 
Peabody,  on  account  of  other  engagements,  was  unable  to 
participate  in  the  festivities  of  that  occasion. 

In  1866,  he  gave  fifty  thousand  dollars  to  the  Peabody  In- 
stitute in  Danvers  ;  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  to  Yale, 
and  the  same  amount  to  Harvard  college.  His  donations  to 
various  charitable  and  educational  institutions  in  the  United 
States  and  England  amounted  to  eight  million  dollars. 

February  20,  1867,  he  gave  to  the  Newburyport  Public 
library  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be 
applied  to  the  purchase  of  standard  works,  by  the  best  au- 
thors, on  topics  of  general  interest.'  At  the  request  of  some 
of  his  personal  friends,  he  gave  a  portrait  of  himself,  painted 

'  In  a  letter  from  Mr.  Peabody,  published  in  the  Newburj'port  Municipal  Regis- 
ter, the  terms  and  conditions  of  this  gift  are  clearly  stated,  and  suggestions  made 
in  regard  to  the  organization  of  a  board  of  trustees  to  receive  and  expend  the 
income. 


CONTRIBUTORS  TO   TFIE  PUBLIC  IJBRARY  FUXD       407 

by  an  English  artist  in  1869,  to  the  directors  of  the  library.' 
Mr.  Peabody  died  in  London  November  4,  1869.  An 
English  ship-of-war,  convoyed  by  two  armed  vessels,  one 
detailed  for  that  purpose  by  the  president  of  the  United 
States,  the  other  by  the  emperor  of  France,  brought  his  body 
to  Portland,  Maine,  where  it  lay  in  state  for  two  or  three 
days,  and  was  then  taken  to  Peabody,  Mass.,  where,  after  a 
solemn  funeral  service  in  the  old  South  meeting-house,  it 
was  buried  in  Harmony  Grove  cemetery,  while  a  violent  north- 
east snow  storm  was  raging. 

John  Mkrrili,  BKAnHURV,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Nancy 
(Merrill)  Bradbury,  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  29, 
1818.  He  attended  the  Latin  high  school,  and  was  after- 
wards a  pupil  at  Dummer  academy,  completing  his  education 
at  Dickinson  college  in  Carlisle,  Pa. 

He  married,  August  28,  1843,  Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Abigail  (Sargent)  Hayes  of  Gloucester,  and  for 
several  years  after  that  date  was  a  teacher  in  one  of  the  public 
schools  of 'Newburyport.  \\\  1849,  he  accepted  a  clerkship 
in  the  treasury  department  at  the  state  house  in  Boston,  and 
afterwards  held,  for  fifteen  or  eighteen  years,  an  important 
and  responsible  position  with  the  firm  of  Gilmore,  Blake  & 
Ward,  bankers. 

Accompanied  by  his  wife,  he  visited  England,  Scotland, 
Ireland  and  the  continent  of  Euroj^e  in  1868,  returning  to 
Boston  in  1871,  suffering  from  a  severe  lameness  that  result- 
ed in  a  surgical  operation  and  the  loss  of  one  of  his  feet  by 
amputation. 

January  20,  1875,  he  purchased  an  estate  in  Ijiswich,  Mass., 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  March  21,  1876,  leaving  a 
widow,  but  no  children.  By  his  will,  dated  May  19,  1873, 
and  proved  April  17,  1876,  he  gave  to  the  Public  library  of 
Newburyport  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars.      Charles  W. 

1  History  of   Xewbmyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  526. 


4o8  HISTOK  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Tuttle,  esq.,  in  a  brief  obituary  notice  of  Mr.  Bradbury,  wrote 
as  follows  : — - 

His  chief  delight  and  interest  were  in  the  history  and  antiquities  of 
New  England.  He  had  a  keen  relish  for  antiquarian  research,  and 
never  lost  an  opportunity  to  add  to  his  stock  of  this  kind  of  informa- 
tion. He  was  as  familiar  as  one  could  well  be  with  the  local  history  of 
both  banks  of  the  Merrimac  River,  where  the  early  settlements  were 
made.  His  ancestors  for  six  and  seven  generations  had  lived  and  died 
there,  and  he  knew  the  history  of  each  generation  with  marvellous  accu- 
racy and  fullness.  He  had  gathered  local  traditions  and  examined 
ancient  records  till  he  was  master  of  the  history  and  genealogy  of  all, 
or  nearly  all,  the  old  families  between  Haverhill  and  Plum  Island.' 

Joseph  A.  Frothingham,  son  of  Stephen  and  Hannah 
(Johnson)  Frothingham,  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  April  25, 
1804.  He  was  a  druggist  in  Salem,  Mass.,  for  several  years. 
In  September,  1832,  he  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Betsey  Beck  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  soon  after  that  date 
returned  to  Newbury  port  and  opened  a  drug  store  near  the 
corner  of  Market  and  Merrimack  streets.  From  1833  to 
i860  he  was  a  dry-goods  merchant  and  occupied  a  store, 
afterwards  occupied  by  his  son,  Joseph  A.  Frothingham,  jr., 
on  the  northwesterly  side  of  State  street,  near  Threadneedle 
alley.  His  wife  died  January  i,  1854;  and  he  died  Septem- 
ber 22,  1880.  By  his  will,  proved  November  i,  1880,  he 
gave  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  the  sum  of  one  thousand 
dollars,  the  income  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books  for 
the  Public  library. 

Sarah  Ann  Green,  daughter  of  Silas  and  Sarah  Green, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  November  19,  181 3.  When  only 
sixteen  years  of  age  she  w^as  employed  as  a  teacher  in  a 
private  school  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  and  afterwards  in  a  private 
school  in  that  part  of  Newbury  known  as  Belleville.  In  1843, 
she  was  appointed  one  of  the  assistant  teachers  in  the  New- 

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CONTRIBUTORS  TO   THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  FiWD      409 

buryport  Female  high  school,  which  position  she  retained  until 
July,  1868.  She  resided  in  a  house,  built  by  her  grandfather 
more  than  a  century  ago,  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  Top- 
pan's  lane,  near  High  street.  She  died,  unmarried,  February 
9,  1882.  By  her  will  she  gave  two  thousand  dollars  to  the 
Newburyport  Public  library. 

John  Ouincv  Adams  Williams,  son  of  Abraham  and  Ann 
Williams,  was  born  in  Newburyport  March  28,  1823.  When 
only  seventeen  years  of  age  he  was  employed  as  clerk  by  the 
firm  of  Bangs  &  Brewer,  on  Long  wharf,  Boston,  and  was 
afterwards  engaged  in  business  with  his  brother,  under  the 
firm-name  of  George  W.  A.  and  John  O.  A.  Williams.  He 
married,  December  15,  1858,  in  Boston,  Hannah  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  H.  and  Martha  (Brickett)  Moody,  and  died 
December  14,  1886,  leaving  one  daughter,  who  married  Ed- 
ward Atkins  of  Boston.  By  the  second  codicil  of  his  will, 
proved  in  the  probate  court  for  Suffolk  county  January  31, 
1887,  he  gave,  in  memory  of  his  father,  the  sum  of  one 
thousand  dollars  to  the  Newburyport  Public  library,  to  be 
known  as  the   "Abraham  Williams'  fund  ". 

Rev.  William  Oxnard  Moselev,  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Mary  Ann  (Oxnard)  Moseley,  was  born  in  Newburyport  April 
27,  18 1 5.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1836,  studied  for  the 
ministry,  was  pastor  of  a  Unitarian  church  in  Burlington,  Vt., 
two  or  three  years  later,  and  afterwards  in  South  Scituate 
and  Chelsea,  Mass.  He  married,  October  26,  1847, 
Caroline  Louisa  P'airbanks,  daughter  of  Hon.  Stephen  Fair- 
banks of  Boston.  She  died  in  September,  1856.  For  his 
second  wife  he  married,  January  15,  1868,  Julia  Maria  Hale, 
daughter  of  Joseph  W.  and  Julia  Ann  (Todd)  Hale  of  New- 
buryport. He  died  in  Newburyport  February  10,  1894, 
and  provided  in  his  will  that  the  sum  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  should  be  set  aside  as  a  trust  fund,  the  income  to  be 
paid  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Lucy  Jones  (Moseley)  Muzzey,  during 


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her  life,  "  and  at  her  death  the  principal  to  be  paid  to  the 
Newburyport  Public  Library."'  He  also  provided  that  the 
sum  of  three  thousand  dollars  should  be  paid  to  the  Howard 
Benevolent  society,  and  the  same  amount  to  the  General 
Charitable  society  of  Newburyport. 

William  Cleaves  Todd,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Betsey 
(Kimball)  Todd,  was  born  in  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  February  16,. 
1823.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1844,  and 
afterwards  taught  school  in  Shepherdsville,  Ky.,  for  eighteen 
months.  He  visited  Europe  in  1848,  and  after  his  return 
was  principal  of  the  Atkinson  academy  for  six  years,  resign- 
ing in  1854  to  take  charge  of  the  Female  high  school  in  New- 
buryport. By  fortunate  investments  in  stocks  and  bonds,  he 
realized  a  sum  sufficient  to  enable  him  to  live  independent  of 
his  salary,  and  resigned  his  position  as  principal  of  the  Female 
high  school  in  1864.  After  that  date  he  resided  for  three 
years  in  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  during  the  summer,  and  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  during  the  winter  months.  In  1867,  he  made 
his  second  trip  to  Europe,  remaining  there  until  1870.  In 
1879,  he  again  visited  Europe,  and  traveled  extensively  in 
Norway  and  Sweden.  Returning  to  New  England,  he  divided 
his  time  chiefly  between  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  and  Newburyport,. 
Mass.,  writing  occasionally  for  the  magazines  and  newspapers 
of  the  day  biographical  and  historical  sketches,  which  he 
afterwards  collected  and  published  in  one  volume  under  the 
title  of  "  Biographical  and  Other  Articles." 

In  March,  1870,  a  reading  room  in  connection  with  the 
Newburyport  Public  library  was  established,  at  his  suggestion^ 
and  from  that  date  until  March,  1881,  he  gave  three 
hundred  dollars  annually  for  the  purchase  of  newspapers 
and   magazines,  increasing  the  amount   of  his  gift  to  three 

'  Lucy  Jones  Moseley,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Maiy  Ann  (Oxnard)  Moseley, 
was  born  in  Newburyport  July  5,  181 7.  She  married  Rev.  Artemas  Bowers  Muz- 
zey  October  23,  i860,  and  a  few  years  later  removed  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where 
she  died  November  30,  1891. 


CO.VTK/BCTOKS   'JO   TIIEPrRLICLJl^RARYFlXD       ^n 

hundred  and  seventy-five  and  afterward  to  four  hundred  dol- 
lars per  annum,  until  April  2,  1900,  when  he  generously 
donated  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  the  income  ta 
be  expended  annually  in  providing  papers  and  periodicals  for 
the  reading  room  of  the  Public  library. 

Mr.  Todd  died,  unmarried,  in  Atkinson,  N,  H,,  June  26^ 
1903.' 

JoHX  Rand  Spring,  son  of  Capt.  John  Hopkins  and  Sarah 
Ann  Spring,  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  August  5,  1824.  He 
was  a  student  at  Dummer  academy  for  two  or  three  years, 
and  entered  Bovvdoin  college  in  1841,  but  remained  there  less 
than  twelve  months,  returning  to  Nevvburyport,  and  thence  to 
New  York  City,  where  he  was  employed  as  bookkeeper  by  a 
firm  engaged  in  the  wholesale  dry-goods  trade.  A  few  years 
later  he  married  Fanny  M.  Corey  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  estab- 
lished a  home  for  himself  and  wife  in  Michigan,  and  after- 
wards in  San  Francisco,  California. 

Returning  to  Nevvburyport  in  1859,  he  purchased  a  house 
on  Broad  street,  near  the  corner  of  High  street,  where  he 
lived  until  1862,  when  he  went  again  with  his  wife  to  San 
Francisco,  and  subsequently  became  a  large  owner  of  real 
estate  in  that  city.  He  did  not  return  to  Newburyport,  ex- 
cept for  a  brief  visit  ten  or  fifteen  years  later. 

His  wife  died  in  San  Francisco  March  17,  1898,  and  in 
April,  1900,  he  gave  to  the  city  of  Nevvburyport  the  sum  of 
twenty  thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  expended  in  the 
purchase  of  books  for  the  Public  library. 

He  died  April  12,  1906,  leaving  no  children,  except  a 
daughter, — now  Mrs.  Dr.  Conrad  Weil, — adopted  several  years 
previous  to  the  death  of  his  wife.  By  his  will,  proved  July 
13,  1906,  in  the  superior  court  of  tlie  state  of  California,  for 
the  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco,-  he  gave  to  six  benev- 

'  For  further  details  see  biographical  sketch  of  William  Cleaves  Todd  published 
in  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  volume  LIX,  pages  41- 
45;  also,  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  243  and  526  note. 

2  Number  45S  in  the  record  of  the  superior  court. 


lOHN    KAMI    SPRINC, 


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olent  societies  or  charitable  institutions   in   the  city  of   Nevv- 
buryport  the  sum  of  sixty  thousand  dollars,  as  follows  : — 

To  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged   Females,  Ten  thousand  dollars 
"       Nevvburj-port  Charitable  Societ)-,  Ten  thousand  dollars. 

"       Howard  Benevolent  Society,  Ten  thousand  dollars. 

"       Old  Ladies"  Home,  Ten  thousand  dollars. 

"       Anna  Jaques  Hospital,  Ten  thousand  dollars. 

"       Home  for  Aged  Men,  Ten   thousand  dollars. 

The  half-tone  print  on  the  opposite  page  is  reproduced 
from  a  photograph  of  Mr.  Spring  now  in  the  possession  of  his 
sister,  Mrs.  Margaret  S.  Blake  of  Maplewood,  Mass.  The 
photograph  was  taken  in  San  Francisco,  when  Mr.  Spring  was 
over  eighty-two  years  of  age. 

Edward  Strong  Moselev,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary 
Ann  (Oxnard)  Moseley,  was  born  in  Newburyport  June  22, 
1 81 3.  He  entered  Yale  college  in  1829,  and  remained  there 
until  the  last  term  of  his  junior  year,  when  he  resigned  in 
order  to  enter  the  counting  room  of  Benjamin  A.  Gould,  a 
leading  merchant  of  Boston,  engaged  in  the  East  India  trade. 
Februarys,  1839,  he  married  Charlotte  Augusta  Chapman, 
daughter  of  Rev.  George  T.  Chapman  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  and 
began  housekeeping  in  Newburyport,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  large  ship-owner,  and  for  many  years 
president  of  the  Mechanicks  National  Bank  and  of  the  Insti- 
tution for  Savings  in  Newburyport  and  vicinity. 

At  his  suggestion  and  with  his  personal  assistance,  the 
Tracy  house  on  State  street  was  jKirchased  in  1864  and  re- 
modeled for  the  accommodation  of  the  Public  library.  He  was 
also  deeply  interested  in  the  movement  that  resulted  in  the 
enlargement  of  the  building  in  1882  and  the  erection  of  the 
commodious  reading  room  known  as  the  "Simpson  Annex." 

His  wife  died  November  13,  1893.  He  died  April  25, 
1900,  leaving  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  By  his  wil\ 
dated  September  22,  1898,  and  proved  May  21,  1900,  he  gave 


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to  the  trustees  of  the  Newburyport  Public  library  the  sum  of 
five  thousand  dollars,' 

Elizabeth  Hammond  of  Haverhill  married,  in  1869,  Ed- 
ward S.  Stickney  who  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  7, 
1824.  Mr.  Stickney  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  and 
highly  esteemed  resident  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  died  March 
20,  1880,  and  his  widow,  Elizabeth  Hammond  Stickney,  gave, 
by  her  will,  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  to  the  New- 
buryport Public  library.^ 

Stephen  Webster  Marston,  son  of  Stephen  W.  and  Mary 
(White)  Marston,  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  1 1, 
18 19.  He  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  the  dry-goods 
commission  business  in  Boston,  and  was  also  the  selling  agent 
in  that  city  for  several  large  cotton  manufacturing  corporations. 
He  died  in  Boston,  unmarried,  September  4,  1899,  and 
gave,  by  his  will,  five  thousand  dollars  to  the  Newburyport 
Public  library. 

Abram  Edmands  Cutter,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary 
(Gibson)  Cutter,  was  born  in  Newburyport  January  24,  1822. 
When  he  was  ten  or  twelve  years  old  his  parents  removed  to 
Saco,  Maine,  where  he  attended  school  and  subsequently 
found  employment  as  clerk  in  a  bookstore.  In  1852,  he  re- 
moved to  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  he  began  business  as 
bookseller  and  publisher.  He  married,  July  7,  1853,  Mary 
Eliza  Edmands,  daughter  of  Barnabas  and  Eliza  (Whittemore) 
Edmands.  She  died  February  11,  1854.  For  his  second 
wife  he  married,  October  13,  1S57,  Elizabeth  F.  Smith, 
daughter  of  Washington  and  Elizabeth  (Hay)  Smith.  He 
died  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  May  14,  1900,  and  gave,  by  his 
will,  the  sum  of  four  thousand  dollars  to  the  Newburyport 
Public  library. 

'  For  further  details  in  regard  to  the  Hfe  of  Edward  -S.  Moseley,  see  memorial 
volume  published  in  1902. 

'^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  527  note. 


CONTRIBUTORS  TO   THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  FUND 


415 


Elisiia  Perkins  Dodge,  son  of  Nathan  Dane  and  Sarah 
Perkins  (Shepherd)  Dodge,  was  born  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1847.  He  came  to  Newburyport  in  1866,  and  for 
more  than  thirty  years  was  the  most  prominent  and  success- 
ful manufacturer  of  shoes  in  the  city.  He  married  Katharine 
S.  Gray,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Paine)  Gray,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1869.  He  died  September  30,  1902,  leaving  a  widow 
and  three  sons,  Robert  Gray,  Edwin  Sherrill  and  Lawrence 
Paine  Dodge.  By  his  will,  he  gave  to  the  trustees  of  the 
Public  library  the  sum  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars,  to  be 
known  as  the  William  H.  P.  Dodge  fund,  in  commemoration 
of  his  deceased  brother. ' 

George  Haskell,  son  of  Solomon  and  Harriet  (Orne) 
Haskell,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  November  21,  1836. 
He  married,  January  i,  1868,  Margaret  P".,  daughter  of 
Elbridge  G.  and  Mary  Hoyt,  and  was  employed  for  many 
years  by  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  Company  as  signal 
tender  in  Newburyport.  He  was  fond  of  books  and  interest- 
ed in  the  study  of  local  history.  His  wife  died  October  14, 
1888  ;  he  died  July  16,  1904.  By  his  will,  proved  Sep- 
tember 6,  1904,  he  gave  to  the  city  of  Newburyport  the  sum 
of  one  thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  used  in  the  pur- 
chase of  books  for  the  Public  library. 

February  10,  i860,  the  officers  and  members  of  the  New- 
buryport Lyceum  association  voted  to  assist  in  procuring 
funds  for  the  purchase  or  erection  of  a  building,  to  be  owned 
by  the  city,  for  the  better  accommodation  of  the  Public  libra- 
ry, which  was  then  inconveniently  located  on  the  first  floor  on 
the  northwesterly  side  of  City  hall.  Natives  and  residents  of 
"Ould  Newbury"  and  others  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the 
city  were  invited  to  deliver  lectures  for  two  or  three  years  in 

'  For  further  details  in  regard  to  the  Hfe  of  Hon.  Elisha  P.  Dodge,  see  bio- 
graphical sketch  by  Nathan  X.  Withington,  published  in  1903,  and  History  of 
Newburyport  (Currier),  volurr.e  I,  pages  222-224  ^"^^  5-7' 


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succession,  and  a  sum  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  received 
from  the  sale  of  tickets,  was  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  build- 
ing fund. 

In  1863,  Edward  S.  Moseley,  reahzing  the  value  and  im- 
portance of  the  library  and  the  need  for  vigorous  action,  vol- 
untarily raised  by  personal  solicitation  or  printed  circulars  the 
balance  needed  to  purchase  the  Tracy  house,  on  State  street, 
where  Washington  and  Lafayette  had  been  entertained,  and 
remodel  it  for  the  use  of  the  library.  The  following-named 
persons  contributed  for  that  purpose  the  sums  set  against  their 
respective  names  : — 


Edward  S.  Moseley,                          Newburyport, 

^1,000 

Edward  S.  Rand,                                         " 

1.000 

Josiah  L.  and  Joshua  Hale,                        " 

1,000 

John  Porter,                                                  " 

1,000 

Caleb,  John  N.  and  WilHam  Gushing,     " 

1,000 

Charles  H.  Coffin,                                 ^       •' 

500 

Robert  and  Charles  M.  Bayley,                 " 

500 

Mrs.  Nancy  Horton,                                    '• 

500 

John  Currier,  jr.,                                           " 

500 

Micajah  Lunt.                                               " 

500 

Mrs.  Sarah  \V.  Hale, 

250 

Josiah  Little,                                                 " 

250 

Henrj-  Cook,                                                  " 

200 

William  Graves,                                           " 

200 

Eben  F.  Stone.                                             " 

100 

Benjamin  F.   Currier,                                    " 

100 

Moses  E.  Hale,                                             " 

100 

Albert  VV.  Stevens,                                      " 

100 

George  L.  Rogers,                                       " 

100 

William  Forbes.                                           «« 

100 

Henry  C.  Perkins,                                        " 

100 

Mark  Symons,                                                 " 

100 

Jeremiah  Colman,                                         " 

100 

William  Ashby,                                            « 

100 

John  Osgood,                                                « 

100 

R.  Wills  and  Son,                                      " 

100 

John  N.  Pike,                                               u 

50 

Amos  Noyes,                                                u 

SO 

COXTRfBL'TOKS  TO   THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  FUND      417 


Nathan  A.  Moulton,  Newburyport, 

William  H.  Swasey, 

David  Wood, 

Edward  H.  and  George  J.  George,       •' 

William  Wheelwright,  London,  Eng., 

Mrs.  M.  G.  Wheelwright, 

John  R.  Spring.  San  Francisco,  Cal, 

John  Atkinson,  Boston,  Mat 

William  P.  Pierce, 

Stephen  Tilton  and  Company, 

Samuel  Stevens, 

James  Reed, 

George  W.  A.  WiUiams, 

Balch  W.  Pierce, 

George  W.  Wheelwright, 

Stephen  W.  Marston,  jr., 

Charies  G.  Wood, 

Andrew  L.  Haskell, 

John  M.  Bradbury, 

Nathaniel  Foster,  jr.. 

Robert  B.  WiUiams,  jr., 

John  Tilton, 

John  H.  Bradbury, 

Caleb  Norris, 

Samuel  K.  Whipple, 

George  Butler, 

Edward  P.  Wilbur, 

Daniel  I.  Tenney, 

Jacob  Litde, 

Lemuel  Coffin, 

George  A.  Wood, 

Joseph  B.  Hervey, 

William  B.  Todd, 


New  York  City, 

II  i(  " 

Philadelphia,  Pa., 

u 

Cleveland,  Ohio, 
Washington,  D.  C, 


$     50 
30 

30 
10 

1,000 

1. 000 

1,000 

500 

500 

500 

250 

250 

2i;o 

250 

200 

100 

50 

50 

25 

25 

25 

10 

10 

5 

5 

5 

500 

500 

500 

250 

150 

ICO 


The  balance  of  the  ftrnd,  amounting  to  five  thousand 
dollars,  after  paying  for  the  house  and  land  on  State  street 
and  the  improvements  thereon,  was  deposited  in  the  Insti- 
tution for  Savings  in  Newburyport  and  Vicinity,  the  income 
to  be  expended  in  defraying  the  cost  of  repairs  on  the  library 
building  when  necessary. 


4 1 8  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

The  building  was  afterwards  enlarged  and  much  improved 
by  the  addition  of  a  commodious  and  well-lighted  reading 
room,  which  was  completed  and  dedicated  with  appropriate 
exercises  April  28,  1882.  The  following-named  persons  con- 
tributed the  sums  set  against  their  names  to  defray  the  cost 
of  these  alterations  and  improvements  : — 

Michael  H.  Simpson,  Boston,  18,500 

Edward  S.  Moseley,  NewburyiDort,  500 

Robert  Couch,                        "  5°° 

Charles  Lunt,                          "  5°° 

William  O.  Moseley,             "  500 

Stephen  A.  Caldwell,  Philadelphia,  500 

Stephen  W.  Marston,  Boston,                              '  250 

William  H.  Swasey,  Newbur}'port,  100 

Eben  F.  Stone,                      "  100 

John  J.  Currier,                      "  100 

George  J.  Caldwell,                "  100 

Joshua  Hale,                           "  100 

Alexander  Caldwell,             "  100 

Lemuel  Coffin,  Philadelphia,  100 

Nathaniel  Donnell,  New  York,  50 


CHAPTER    XXVU. 

ECCENTRIC    CHARACTERS. 

Timothy  Dexter  was  born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  January  22, 
1747-8,  and  learned  the  trade  of  a  leather  dresser  in  Charles- 
town.  He  came  to  Newburyport  in  1769,  and  purchased  a 
small  lot  of  land  on  Prospect  street  in  1770.'  In  the  month 
of  May  following  he  married  Elizabeth  (Lord)  Frothingham, 
widow  of  Benjamin  F"rothingham,-  and  occupied  for  many 
years  a  dwelling  house  on  the  southeasterly  corner  of  Green 
and  Merrimack  streets,  with  a  glover's  shop  in  the  basement. 
April  5,  1776,  he  advertised  in  the  Essex  Journal  and  New 
Hampshire  Packet. 

Good  Deer.  Sheep  and  Moose  Skins  for  sale,  at  the  sign  of  the  Glove, 
opposite  Somerby's  landing.s 

His  peculiarities  and  eccentricities  attracted  attention,  and 
in  March,  1776,  he  was  elected  "Informer"  by  the  legal 
voters  of  the  town,  and  ordered  to  enforce  the  law  in  regard 
to  the  killing  of  deer.  Although  seldom  called  upon  to  give 
information  or  asked  to  assist  in  the  prosecution  of  offenders, 
he  was  evidently  pleased  with  the  slight  distinction  that  this 
unimportant  office  gave  him,  and  was  annually  re-elected  until 
March,  1788. 

Following  the  example  of  John  Hancock  and  other  wealthy 
men  of  Massachusetts,  at  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war, 

1  "  Ould  Newbury  :'■  Historical  and  Biographical  .Sketches,  page  571. 

^  Rev.  Samuel  Perley,  Presbyterian  minister  at  Seabrook,  N.  H.,  married  Timo- 
thy Dexter  and  EHzabeth  Frothingham  May  22,  1770  (New  England  Historical 
and  Genealogical  Register,  volume  L,  page  462). 

•'  This  landing  was  laid  out  by  the  selectmen  of  Newbury  in  1752,  and  by  the 
selectmen  of  Newburyport  in  1781  (History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I, 
page  364). 

419 


420 


HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPOR  T 


Dexter  invested  a  large  sum  of  money  in  the  depreciated 
currency  that  was  redeemed  subsequently  at  par  by  the  gov- 
ernment ;  and  a  year  or  two  later  he  increased  his  capital  by 
fortunate  real  estate  speculations. 

In  1 79 1,  he  bought  the  Tracy  house,  now  the  Public 
Library  building,  on  State  street,  and  lived  there  probably 
until  he  removed  to  Chester,  N.  H.,  in  1796.'  When  the 
Essex-Merrimack  bridge  was  built,  in  1792,  he  was  one  of 
the  largest  stockholders.  On  the  fourth  of  July,  1793,  he 
crossed  the  bridge,  with  some  of  his  boon  companions,  to 
Deer  island,  and  sat  down  to  a  substantial  dinner,  with  a 
bountiful  supply  of  good  wine.  Stimulated  by  the  excitement 
and  conviviality  of  the  occasion,  he  delivered  an  incoherent 
speech  that  his  somewhat  inebriated  friends  considered  "  truly 
Ciceronian."-  It  was,  however,  a  mere  jumble  of  words, 
subsequently  re-arranged  by  one  of  his  youthful  admirers  and 
published  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day. 

In  1795,  he  offered  to  erect  at  his  own  expense  a  brick 
building,  on  land  neat  where  the  present  police  station  stands, 
suitable  for  a  market  house,  but  the  inhabitants  of  the  town, 
unwilling  to  accept  his  gift  and  recognize  him  as  a  public 
benefactor,  declined  the  offer  with  thanks.^ 

Annoyed  by  this  refusal  and  animated  with  a  desire  to  make 
a  sensation  elsewhere,  he  sold  his  dwelling  house  on  State 
street,  now  the  Public  Library  building,  and,  in  1 796,  removed 
to  Chester,  N.  H.  where  he  lived  for  nearly  two  years. 

Returning  to  Newburyport  in' 1798,  ne  purchased  a  large 
three-story  house,  with  about  nine  acres  of  land,  on  High 
street,  nearly  opposite  Olive  street,  belonging  to  the  estate 

'  He  sold  his  dwelling  house  on  the  corner  of  Green  and  Merrimack  streets  to 
John  Balch  April  13,  1792  (Essex  Deeds,  book  155,  leaf  -^t^).  In  1S14,  Charles 
Pierce  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  purchased  the  property  (Essex  Deeds,  book  204, 
leaf  9),  and  conveyed  it,  August  12,  1828,  to  Harrison  Johnson  of  Newburyport 
(Essex  Deeds,  book  249,  leaf  293). 

2  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,  July  6  and  10,  1793. 

'  Newburj'port  Town  Records,  volume  in,  page  117;  and  "  Ould  Nevvl)ury :" 
Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  623. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  421 

of  Capt.  Thomas  Thomas,  deceased,  which  he  owned  and 
occupied  until  his  death.  He  was  unhappy,  however,  in  his 
domestic  affairs,  and  made  several  unsuccessful  attempts  to 
sell  this  property.  Six  months  after  receiving  the  deed  of 
conveyance  he  published  the  following  advertisement  in  the 
Columbian  Centinel : — • 

To  BE  Sold 

That  elegant  Mansion  House  situate  in  Newbury  Port,  owned  by  the 
subscriber,  together  with  about  Nine  Acres  of  Land  adjoining,  with  the 
Out  Houses,  Stores,  Stables,  &c.  The  House  has  a  new  Cupola,  with 
a  spread  eagle  on  the  top,  which  turns  with  the  wind  ;  finished  in  an  ele- 
gant manner,  and  perhaps  makes  as  good  an  appearance  as  any  Seat  in 
the  United  States.  There  are  in  the  garden  about  1 50  Fruit  Trees, 
which  produce  a  great  plenty  of  fruit,  and  good  Well  of  Water. 

In  one  of  the  banks  of  the  Garden  is  an  elegant  new  Tomb,  on  the 
top  of  which  is  erected  the  Temple  of  Reason,  12  feet  square,  11  feet 
high,  with  158  squares  of  glass  in  it.     Likewise. 

All  my  Household  Furniture  and  Plate,  which  is  equal  to  the  House. 
Also  my  Coach  Horses  and  Carriages;  payment  made  easy;  one-third  down, 
the  other  in  three  years,  with  interest  and  good  security.  Any  gentlemen 
wishing  to  purchase  the  above  may  hear  of  the  terms  by  applying  to  the 
subscriber,  Hving  on  the  premises.  Timothy  Dextek.' 

Soon  after  this  date  he  had  a  mahogany  coffin  made,  with 
heavy  brass  hinges  and  handles,  which  he  kept  in  his  house 
and  exhibited,  on  special  occasions,  to  his  guests.  In  one  of 
his  numerous  communications  to  the  Newburyport  Herald 
he  wrote  as  follows  : — 

Heare  will  lie  in  this  box  the  first  Lord  in  Amerika,  the  first  Lord 
Dexter  made  by  the  voice  of  hamshire  state,  my  brave  fellows  affirmed 
it,  they  gave  me  the  title,  so  let  it  goue  for  as  much  as  it  will  fetch,  it 
won't  give  me  any  bread,  but  take  from  me  the  contrary,  fourder  I  have 
A  grand  toume  (tomb)  and  my  Coffin  made  and  all  Ready  In  my  hous 
painted  with  white  lead  in  side  and  out  side  touched  with  greene,  with 
bras  trimmings  Eight  handles  and  a  good  lock.  I  have  had  one  mock 
funural,  it  was  a  solemn  day,  there  was  very  much  Cring,  about  three 
thousand  spectators.  I  say  my  hous  is  Eaqual  to  any  mansion  hous  in 
twelve  hundred  miles  and  now  for  sale  for  seven  hundred  pounds  weight 
of  Dollars  by  me.  Timothy   Dexter. - 

'  Columbian  Centinel  (Boston),  January  2,  1799. 
^  Newburyport  Herald,  November  14,  1800. 


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Although  the  facts  stated  in  the  above  communication  are 
substantially  conect,  the  "  mock  funeral "  evidently  lacked 
solemnity,  and  only  a  comparatively  few  persons,  possibly  one 
or  two  hundred,  witnessed  the  ceremony.  Tradition  asserts 
that  Dexter  sat  at  an  upper-story  window  and  watched  the 
funeral  procession  as  it  moved  from  the  house  to  the  tomb  in 
the  garden,  and  at  the  close  of  the  services  beat  his  wife 
severely  because  she  did  not  shed  tears  enough  to  suit  him. 

Early  in  1801,  he  had  statues  carved  in  wood,  gaudily 
painted,  representing  George  Washington,  Thomas  Jefferson 
and  John  Adams,  placed  on  an  arch  over  the  front  entrance 
to  his  house  ;  and  afterwards,  on  the  grounds  adjoining,  erected 
pedestals  or  columns,  fifteen  feet  high,  surmounted  by  statues 
of  philosophers,  statesmen  and  politicians,  with  one  to  him- 
self, bearing  the  inscription,  "  I  am  the  first  in  the  East,  the 
first  in  the  West,  and  the  greatest  philosopher  in  the  known 
world."  All  these  statues,  with  four  lions,  one  unicorn  and 
other  objects  of  interest,  came  from  the  workshop  of  Joseph 
Wilson,  a  young  ship-carver,  then  living  on  Strong  street, 
Newburyport.  They  gave  the  place  a  strange  appearance, 
attracted  the  attention  of  strangers  and  gratified  the  vanity 
of  the  owner,  who  published  a  partial  list  of  these  "  works  of 
art  "  in  the  Newburyport  Herald,  as  follows  : — 

The  3  presidents,  Doctor  franklin,  John  hen  Cock,  and  Mr  Hamilton, 
and  Rouffous  King  and  John  Jea,  and  2  granedears  on  the  top  of 
the  hous,  4  Lions  below,  i  Eagel,  is  on  Coupulow,  one  Lamb  to  lay 
down  with  one  of  the  Lions, — One  Yonnecorne,  one  Dogg,  Addam  and 
Eave  in  the  garden, — one  horse.  The  houH  [whole]  is  not  concluded  on 
as  yet. I 

In  1802,  Dexter  published  his  "Pickle  for  the  Knowing 
Ones."^  It  was  a  curious  mixture  of  sense  and  nonsense,  put 
together  without  regard  to   the  rules  of  orthography  or  the 

1  Newbuiyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  June  i6,  iSoi. 
-  Historj'  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  495. 


424 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBURYPORT 


art  of  punctuation.  In  the  second  edition  he  added,  at  the 
close  of  the  volume,  nearly  a  page  of  punctuation  marks,  to 
which  he  prefixed  the  following  notice  : — 

Mister  printer  the  Nowing  ones  complane  of  my  book,  the  fust  edi- 
tion had  no  stops.  I  put  in  A  Nuf  here  and  they  may  peper  and  salt  it 
as  they  plese. 

Several  editions  of  this  small  pamphlet  of  thirty  or  forty 
pages  have  been  printed,  but  it  is  now  impossible  to  obtain  a 
copy  except  at  a  considerable  advance  from  the  original  pub- 
lished price.' 

Dexter  appointed  Jonathan  Plummer  his  poet  laureate,  gave 
him  a  small  salary,  a  suit  of  livery,  a  large  cocked  hat,  a  gold- 
headed  cane,  and  induced  him,  by  shrewdness  and  flattery,  to 
write  occasionally  for  the  newspapers  of  the  day  verses  in 
praise  of  his  patron.  Although  bickerings  and  quarrels  were 
frequent.  Dexter  retained  the  services  of  his  poet  laureate 
for  many  years  and  contributed  annually  to  his  support. 

With  no  regular  business,  ignorant,  intemperate  and  irrita- 
ble, Dexter  often  complained  of  ill-treatment  at  home,  and 
frequently,  when  overcome  by  liquor,  threatened  to  sell  his 
property  and  leave  his  wife  and  children  to  take  care  of  them- 
selves. After  a  violent  quarrel  with  his  son,  who  was  not 
only  mentally  weak,  but  idle  and  vicious.  Dexter  called  upon 
the  proprietors  of  the  Newbury  port  Herald  and  authorized 
them  to  publish  the  following  advertisement  :  — 

Mk.  Dexter"s  Seat  for  Sale. 

I  say  one  great  bargain  for  a  great  man,  if  you  will  buy  my  house 
that  stands  out  doors.  I  am  in  such  a  state  of  health  I  must  sell  my 
Pallace  under  the  worth  to  go  to  the  springs  :  and  one  thing  more  my 
life  is  at  a  risk.  Pay  a  part  and  good  security  for  the  rest ;  all  the  guts, 
plate  and  books,  horses  and  carriages,  wood,  &c.  A  large  amount  of 
plate,  it  will  show  for  itself.  I  will  finish  the  Museum  87  figures;  4 
arches ;   i  7  figures  front  and  rear  ne.xt  the  house :  some  scattering  ones 

'  History  of  Newhuryport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  499  and  500. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  425 

in  the  rear.  Eight  acres  and  107  rods  of  land,  cutts  14  load  of  fodder; 
very  good  orchard.  I  have  no  family  only  robbers ;  I  want  to  be  still, 
not  in  my  tomb.  I  have  one  store  house  to  sell  on  broadway,  2  dollars 
for  3.  If  my  house,  Pallace  &c  is  worth  above  23000  dollars  give  me 
less  fur  I  am  afraid  of  my  life,  of  being  killed  by  my  son  ;  this  is  the  truth. 

Timothy  Dexter.' 

In  1805,  James  Akin,  then  living  in  Newburyport,  engraved 
and  published  a  full-length  portrait  of  "  The  most  noble  Lord 
Timothy  Dexter,"  arrayed  in  his  peculiar  costume,  carrying  a 
gold-headed  cane,  and  followed  by  a  hairless,  short-legged  dog, 
as  shown  in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  next  page.  Copies 
of  the  original  engraving  were  advertised  "  for  sale  at  the 
bookstore  of  Thomas  and  Whipple,  sign  of  Johnson's  Head, 
Market  Square."- 

Although  addicted  to  the  immoderate  use  of  spirituous 
hquor.  Dexter  lived  to  be  nearly  sixty  years  of  age,  and  died, 
after  a  brief  illness,  October  22,  1806.  Two  days  later  the 
following  obituary  notice  was  published  in  the  Newburyport 
Herald  : — 

Departed  this  life,  on  Wednesday  evening  last  [October  22,  1806], 
Mr.  Timothy  Dexter,  in  the  6oth  year  of  his  age, — self-styled  "Lord 
Dexter,  first  in  the  East."  He  lived  perhaps  one  of  the  most  eccentric 
men  of  his  time.  His  singularities  and  peculiarnotions  were  universally 
proverbial.  Born  and  bred  in  a  low  condition  in  life,  and  his  intellectual 
endowments  not  being  of  the  most  exalted  stamp,  it  is  no  wonder  that  a 
splendid  fortune,  which  he  acquired  (though  perhaps  honestly)  by  dint 
of  speculation  and  good  fortune,  should  have  rendered  him,  in  many  re- 
spects, truly  ridiculous.  The  qualities  of  his  mind  were  of  that  indefi- 
nite cast  which  forms  an  e.xception  to  every  other  character  recorded  in 
history,  or  known  in  the  present  age,  and  "  none  but  himself  could  be 
his  parallel."  But  among  the  motley  groups  of  his  qualities,  it  would 
be  injustice  to  say  he  possessed  no  good  ones — he  certainly  did.  No 
one  will  impeach  his  honesty,  and  his  numerous  acts  of  liberality,  both 
public  and  private,  are  in  the  recollection  of  all,  while  one  of  the  items 
in  his  last  Will  will  be  gratefully  remembered.  His  ruling  passion  ap- 
peared to  be  popularity,  and  one  would  suppose  he  rather  chose    to   ren- 

1  Newburyport  Herald,  June  28,    1803. 
^Newburyport  Herald,  January  31,  1806. 


"^hni  a,  piece,  of  -work  is  yfan  '      j  v'**~~ 

how  noble  in  reason  .'  ho^f  infinite  in  faeidties'     in  fornn  Knurdinq.hovQ  exj^efs  iCadmrahlc 
Entered  accordhlj  to  ncl  ofCongVcfs  ^Hcnel?' J805  by  James -ikru  Ne\\bury]:>orl   Male" 

TIMOTHY    DliXTEK    AND    HIS    DOG. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  427 

der  his  name  "infamously  famous  than  not  famous  at  all."'  His  writings 
stand  as  a  monument  of  the  truth  of  this  remark:  for  those  who  have 
read  his  '■  Pickle  for  the  Knowing  Ones,"  a  jumble  of  letters  promiscu- 
ously gathered  together,  find  it  difficult  to  determine  whether  most  to 
laugh  at  the  consummate  folly,  or  despise  the  vulgarity  and  profanity  of 
the  writer.  His  manner  of  life  was  equally  extravagant  and  singular. 
A  few  3-ears  since  he  erected  in  front  of  his  house  a  great  number  of 
images  of  distinguished  persons  in  Europe  and  America,  together  with 
beasts,  &c.,  so  that  his  seat  exhibited  more  the  appearance  of  a  museum 
of  artificial  curiosities  than  the  dwelling  of  a  family.  By  his  orders  a 
tomb  was  several  years  since  dug  under  the  summer  house  in  his  garden, 
where  he  desired  his  remains  might  be  deposited  (but  this  singular  re- 
quest could  not  consistently  be  complied  with),  and  his  coffin  made  and 
kept  in  the  hall  of  his  house,  in  which  he  is  to  be  buried.  The  fortu- 
nate and  singular  manner  of  his  speculations,  by  which  he  became  pos- 
sessed of  a  handsome  property,  are  well  known,  and  his  sending  a  cargo 
of  warming-pans  to  the  W.  Indies,  where  they  were  converted  into 
molasses-ladles  and  sold  to  a  good  profit,  is  but  one  of  the  most  pecu- 
liar. His  principles  of  religion  (if  they  could  be  called  principles)  were 
equally  odd  :  a  blind  philosophy  peculiar  to  himself  led  him  to  believe 
in  the  system  of  transmigration  at  some  times  ;  at  others  he  expressed 
those  closely  connected  with  deism  ;  but  it  is  not  a  matter  of  surjDrise 
that  one  so  totally  illiterate  should  have  no  settled  or  rational  principles. 
His  reason  left  him  two  days  before  his  death,  but  he  has  gone  to  render 
an  account  of  his  life  to  a  just  and  merciful  Judge. 

The  funeral  of  Mr.  Dexter  will  be  to-morrow,  at  3  o'clock,  from  his 
dwelling  house.' 

Although  the  writer  of  the  above  notice  evidently  believed 
the  stories  circulated  by  Dexter  in  regard  to  the  shipment  of 
a  cargo  of  warming  pans  to  the  West  Indies,  Mr.  William  C. 
Todd,  after  a  careful  examination  of  the  custom  house  records 
in  Newburyport  and  elsewhere,  asserts  in  a  pamphlet,  pub- 
lished in  1 886,  that  the  stories  were  fictitious  and  have  no 
historical  value  whatever.- 

Dexter"s  will,  dated  March  i ,  1 799,  seven  years  previous  to 
his  death,  was  prov^ed  November  3,  1806.  It  provided  liber- 
ally for  his  wife  Elizabeth,  his  son  Samuel   Lord   Dexter,  his 

'  Newburjport  Herald,  October  24,  1806. 
Timothy  Dexter,  An  incjuiry  into  his  life  and  character,  by  William  C.  T(  ikl. 


42  8  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

daughter  Nancy  (Dexter)  Bishop,  wife  of  Abraham  Bishop, 
his  granddaughter  Nancy  Bishop,  his  brothers  Nathan  and 
John  Dexter  and  others.  He  also  gave  to  Joseph  Somerby, 
schoolmaster,  two  shares  in  the  Essex-Merrimack  Bridge  cor- 
poration, his  best  silver  can,  his  turtle-shell  pinchbeck  watch, 
three  of  his  best  silver  spoons  and  one  pair  of  gold  sleeve- 
buttons.  To  the  town  of  Maiden  he  gave  three  hundred 
dollars  for  the  purchase  of  a  bell  for  the  meeting-house,  and 
the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  allowed  to 
accumulate  for  a  century  ;  after  that  date  the  interest  to  be 
appropriated,  annually,  "  for  the  support  of  the  gospel  in  said 
town  of  Maiden."  To  the  town  of  Newburyport  he  gave  two 
thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  applied,  annually,  for  the 
support  of  the  poor  outside  of  the  almshouse. 

The  total  value  of  his  estate,   according  to   the  inventory, 
filed  December  4,  1806,  was  as  follows  : — 

House  and  land  on  High  street,  #12.000.00 

1 10  shares  in  the  Esse.x  Merrimack  bridge,  15,-1.00.00 

Two  shares  in  Chester,  N.  H  ,  turnpike,  100.00 
Furniture,  crockery,  and  silver  ware,  horses  and 

carriages,  clothing,  promissory  notes,  &c.,  &c.,  7,527.39 


^35,027.39 


The  board  of  health  objected  to  his  burial  in  the  tomb 
erected  in  the  rear  of  his  house  on  High  street,  and  a  suitable 
lot  was  provided  for  him  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 
The  inscription  on  his  gravestone  reads  as  follows  : — 

In  memory  of 
M"   Timothy  Dexter, 
who  died  October  23d 
A.  D.  1806. 
yEtatis  60. 
He  gave  liberal  Donations, 
P^or  the  support  of  the  Gospel : 
For  the  benefit  of  the  Poor, 
And  for  other  benevolent  purposes. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS 


429 


C.RAX'ES'rOXES    I\    MEMOKN'    Ol''    -lIMiriHV    DKXTKK    AM)    IMS    WIIK. 

The  household  furniture  and  other  personal  property  be- 
lon,i;ing  to  the  estate  of  Timothy  Uexter  was  sold  as  stated  in 
the  following"  advertisement  : — 

To  be  sold  at  public  auction,  on  Tuesday,  the  12th  of  May  next,  at 
the  dwelling  house  of  the  late  Mr.  Timothy  Dexter  in  High  street  all  the 
Household  Furniture  belonging  to  the  said  Dexter's  estate;  Feather 
Beds,  Bedsteads,  &c.  also  a  number  of  handsome  carved  Images,  well 
painted,  designed  to  represent  some  of  the  first  characters  in  the  United 
States  of  America  and  in  Europe,  with  the  Pillars  on  which  they  stand. 

P.  BA(iLEV  &  Sons.  Auctioneers.^^ 

1  Newburypcnt  Herald,  April  28,  1807. 


430 


HISTOR  y  OF  NE  WB UR  YPOR  T 


Elizabeth  Dexter,  widow  of  Timothy  Dexter,  died  July  3, 
1809,  aged  seventy-two.  She  was  buried  at  the  side  of  her 
husband  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground. 

Samuel  Lord  Dexter,  only  son  of  Timothy  and  Elizabeth 
Dexter,  was  born  in  September,  1772.  On  the  sixth  of  Octo- 
ber he  was  baptized  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Relig- 
ious society  in  Newburyport.  In  his  boyhood  he  was  idle  and 
dissolute,  and  in  later  years  indulged  in  every  kind  of  dissipa- 
tion. He  married,  in  June,  1800,  Mrs.  Mehitable  Hoyt  of 
Hampstead,  N.  H.'  For  his  second  wife,  he  married,  January 
1 1,  1807,  Esther  Dexter  of  Newburyport.  He  died  July  20, 
1807,  leaving  no  children.  His  widow  married,  November  16, 
1809,  William  Rose  of  Charlestown,  Mass.^ 

Nancy,  only  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Elizabeth  Dexter, 
was  born  Aitgust  16,  1776.  Although  possessing  consider- 
able personal  beauty,  she  was  a  vain,  frivolous  girl,  superficially 
educated,  fond  of  dress  and  fashionable  society.  She  mar- 
ried, March  11,  1792,  Abraham  Bishop  of  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  Rev.  Edward  Bass,  D.  D.,  officiating.  Her  first  and 
only  child,  Mary  Ann  Bishop,  was  born  in  1794,  and  two  or 
three  years  later  her  husband  applied  for  and  obtained  a 
divorce  for  statutory  causes,  and  was  granted  the  care  and 
custody  of  the  child.  Mrs.  Bishop  returned  to  Newburyport, 
with  confirmed  habits  of  intoxication,  and  was  provided  with 
board  and  lodging  in  the  Dexter  house,  on  High  street,  where 
she  died  September  30,  185  i. 

Mary  Ann  Bishop  married  Stephen  {>)  Clark,  an  able  lawyer, 
who  was  afterward  appointed  judge  of  the  municipal  court  in 
New  Haven.  In  1852,  she  sold  to  Dr.  Elbridge  G.  Kelley 
the  house  and  land  on  High  street,  Newburyport,  "  belonging 

'  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  June  lo,  1800.  Intention  of  mar- 
riage filed  May  22,  1800.  See  Memorial  of  the  town  of  Hampstead,  N.  H.,  com- 
piled by  Miss  Harriette  E.  Noyes,  page  439. 

2  "  Ould  Newbury:"    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  !;75. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS 


431 


to  the  estate  of  the  late  Lord  Timothy  Dexter."'  Doctor 
Kelley  retained  possession  of  the  property  until  1874,  when 
it  was  sold  to  Hon.  George  H.  Corliss  of  Providence,  R.  1.^ 
It  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Katheriue  Tin,i;-ley  of  Point  Loma, 
California. 

Jonathan  Plummer,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Abigail  Plum- 
mer,  was  born  June  13,  1 761,  in  a  house  then  standing  near 
Gravel  hill,  in  the  town  of  Newbury.  Although  mentally 
weak  and  easily  imposed  upon, 


he  had  a  retentive  memor)-, 
and  soon  acquired  a  good  com- 
mon-school education.  When 
sixteen  or  eighteen  years  of 
age  he  was  anxious  to  study  for 
the  ministry,  but  was  persuad- 
ed by  friends  and  neighbors  to 
turn  his  attention  to  secular 
pursuits. 

He  was  fond  of  reading,  and 
for  a  small  consideration 
would  recite  in  the  market 
place  in  Newburyport  selec- 
tions of  prose  and  poetry  taken 
from  his  favorite  authors,  to 
the  great  delight  of  the  men 
and  boys  accustomed  to  as- 
semble there. 

He  sold  pins,  needles  and  other  small  wares  from  a  basket 
that  he  carried  from  house  to  house,  and  occasionally  wrote 
and  published  verses  describing  some  event  or  incident  of 
local  interest.  He  styled  himself  "  poet  lauriet  to  Lord  Tim- 
othy Dexter,"  and  one  of  hi.s  early  publications  was  a  broad- 
side, printed  in  large  type,  with  the  following  title  or  heading  : — 

'  Essex  Deeds,  linok  456,  leaf  S4. 

■■^  "  Ould  Newbury:"'    Historical  ami  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  570-576. 


lONATHAN    PLUMMKK. 


4^2  Jil^  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Plummers  Declaration  of  War  with 

The  Fair  Ladies  of  the  Five  Northern  States 

and 

The  Author's  Congratulatory  Address 

to  Citizen  Timothy  Dexter  on  his 
Attaining  an  Independent  Fortune.' 

He  afterward  published  in  the  Impartial  Herald  the  fol- 
lowing flattering  and  latidatory  letter  : — 

To  Citizen  Dexter,  the  favorite  of  the  Goddess  who  presides  over 
riches.     Wise  and  wealthy  citizen  : 

Julius  Ceasar,  a  renowned  and  ever  victorious  Roman  Emperor,  being 
once  at  sea,  in  a  tremendous  storm,  banished  the  fears  of  his  pilot,  who 
expressed  great  concern,  by  informing  him  that  he  bore  Ceasar  and  his 
fortune.  Now,  sir,  I  beg  leave  to  inform  you  that  I  have  been  very 
fearful  that  I  should  draw  nothing  in  the  present  Connecticut  Manufac- 
tory Lottery,  and  my  diffidence  is  so  great  that  I  have  not  yet  ventured 
to  lay  out  in  it  a  single  cent,  nor  can  I  yet  resolve,  so  far,  to  trust  my 
ragged  fortune. 

In  this  disagreeable  situation  to  whom  but  to  you,  my  generous 
Patron,  can  I  look  for  the  favor  which  Ceasar  granted  to  his  dispairing 
Pilot?  In  the  name  then  of  Apollo,  my  immortal  master,  let  your  droop- 
ing Poet  receive  one  or  two  of  these  tickets  from  your  bounteous  hand. 
This  favor  granted. 

My  joy  shall  then,  from  shore  to  shore, 
Resound  till  time  shall  be  no  more. 

I  shall  then  have  substantial  reason  to  hope  that  a  part  of  the  fortune, 
not  of  the  conquering  Ceasar,  but  of  the  lucky,  the  successful  Dexter, 
will  attend  me.  My  muse  whispers  that  tickets  bought  by  so  fortunate 
a  gentleman,  benevolently  given  by  you,  and  gratefully  received  by  me, 
will  be  very  likely  to  draw  some  capital  prize.  I  am,  sir,  your  very  hum- 
ble servant  and  affectionate  bard, 

Jonathan  Plu.maier,  Jun.^ 

The  first  number  of  his  autobiography,  "written  by  himself," 
was  published  in  1796,^  and  during  the  next  two  or  three  years 

'  A  copy  of  this  l)roailsi(]e  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Edward  H.  Little,  New- 
bury port. 

"^  Impartial  Herald,  May  5,  1795. 

•*  Advertisement  in  the  Impartial  Herald,  February  9,  1796. 


ECCENIRIC  CHARACTERS  433 

he  wrote  and  sold,  from  his  basket  in   Market    square,  verses 
and  sermons  on  the  following  subjects  : — 

The  Awful  Malignant  Fever  at  Newburyport  in  the  year  1796.> 

An  Elegiac  Ode  and  Funeral  Sermon  on   the   death   of  three  persons 

who  killed  themselves.' 

A  Solemn  Call  to  the  Citizens  of  the   United   States   by  a   Citizen  of 

Newburyport.' 

March    17,    1797,    the    following    congratulatory    ode  was 
printed  in  the  Impartial  Herald: — 

To    Sir    Tlmothv    Dexiek,    on   his  /t'/uniin^   /o  Xeivbitryport^   after 

residing  a  long  iinie  at  Chester  in  Ne^o  Hanipshii  e  ;  a  con- 

'^ratulatory  Ode.-  by  Jonathan  F/iininier,j!inr.,  Toet 

Laurie t  to  his  LordsJiip. 

YouK  lordship's  welcome  back  again — 

Fair  nymphs  with  sighs  have  mourn'd  your  staying 

So  long  from  them  and  me  your  swain, 
And  wonder'd  at  such  long  delaying; 

But  now  you  bless  again  our  eyes, 

Our  melting  sorrow  droops  and  dies. 

The  town  of   Chester  to  a  Lord 

Must  seem  a  desert  dull  and  foggy, 
A  gloomy  place — upon  my  word 

I  think  it  dirty,  wet,  and  boggy  : 
Far  different  from  your  Kingly  seat,* 
In  good  saint  James  his  famous  street. 

There  all  the  arts  and  graces  join 

To  make  you  happy  and  contented: 
There  flowing  wits  and  sparkling  wine 

Will  duly  to  you  be  presented — 
Aye,  raptures  rare  combined  meet 
To  bless  and  crown  saint  James  his  street. 

*Kingly  seat — The  elegant  house  in  saint  James  his  jnuk   and  street,   which  be- 
longed some  time  since  to  Jonathan  Jackson,  F-sq. 

^  Esse.x  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 


434  ^^^ TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Your  happy  change  I'll  loudly  sing, 

Your  change  to  all  the  town  transporting, 

And  while  I  make  the  valleys  ring, 
I  shall  rejoice  at  your  good  fortune. 

From  Chester  to  saint  James  his  street 

Is  quite  a  glorious  retreat. 

But  I  a  suit  of  clothes  must  have 

To  sing  my  joy  in,  and  the  best,  sir: 
A  suit  of  red  ;  not  black  and  grave, 

Provided  by  the  Earl  of  Chester. 
To  Todd  the  taylor  send,  I  pray : — 
Your  Lordship's  Poet  must  be  gay. 

The  sable  suit  is  handsome  yet ; 

But  not  so  proper  to  rejoice  in, 
As  that  which  now  you'll  for  me  get. 

To  tune  m}-  verj-  joyful  voice  in. 
In  Europe  I  know  not  a  King 
Without  a  bard  in  red  to  sing.' 

You  in  this  place  have  many  friends. 

And  all  the  Lawyers  here  are  civil : 
They  know  full  well  that  envy  tends 

To  send  its  owners  to  the  devil. 
I  think  they  will  not  beat  you  blind. 
Because  the  Nymphs  are  to  you  kind.f 

t  Because  tlie  Nymphs,  (S;c. — It  is  strongly  suspected  that  Lord  Dexter  was 
bruised  half  to  death,  l)y  a  lawyer  in  New  Hampshire,  partly  on  account  of  the 
ladies  regard  for  him  in  that  state. 

1  Concerning  this  appeal  for  a  new  suit  of  livery,  the  poet  laureate,  in  his  auto- 
biography, makes  the  following  statement:  — 

"  It  happened  that  the  Earl  of  Chester  was  ill  of  the  gout  about  the  time  that 
this  ode  made  its  appearance.  This  I  imagine  operated  to  my  disadvantage  in  re- 
gard to  my  obtaining  the  suit  of  red.  The  painful  disease,  in  a  great  measure, 
destroyed  his  Lordship's  relish  for  poetry.  Lady  Dexter,  too,  co-operated  with 
the  gout  in  the  business  of  with-holding  from  me  the  object  of  my  wishes.  She 
is  not  altogether  so  generous,  so  noble,  so  royal,  as  his  Lordship,  and  when  she 
rules  the  house,  those  benevolent  actions  are  not  always  done  which  at  other  times 
adorn  the  place.  I  would  not  be  understood  to  hint  that  she  alone  ever  absolutely 
controls  him ;  but  I  cannot  say  that  she  and  the  gout  together  do  not  sometimes 
get  him  under.  I  did  not  expect  that  anything  would  hinder  him  from  cloathing 
his  own  poet;   but  alas!   I  must  confess  that  I  have  not  yet  received  the  suit," 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  435 

Your  housej  in  Chester  is  not  fit 

For  a  wise  noble  lord  to  dwell  in — 
In  this  you  may  display  your  wit  : 

Aye,  this  I'm  sure  you  will  do  well  in. 
I  hope  you'll  shine  gay  as  a  lark, 
A  glory  to  saint  James  his  park. 

Bless  me  !  what  wits  and  beauties  there. 

With  dazzling  lustre  gay  are  shining ! 
Nymphs  whom  to  angels  I  compare, 

And  wits  who're  not  with  envy  pining : 
Beaux  who  will  never  beat  you  blind 
Because  the  Nymphs  are  to  you  kind. 

Lo  1  what  a  place  below  the  skies, § 

How  stately,  elegant,  and  splendid, 
Is  that  boon  earthly  paradise. 

Where  wit  and  beauty  are  so  blended  ! 
You  truly  hit  the  proper  mark 
By  living  in  St.  James  his  park. 

A  man  of  sense  should  always  live 

Among  the  highest  and  the  best,  sir, 
And  never  pine  away  and  grieve 

Among  the  fighting  folks  at  Chester: 
Then  shine,  rich  lord,  the  gayest  .spark. 
The  glory  of  saint  James  his  park. 

%  The  house  is  elegant;    but  only  2  stories  high. 

§  Lo!  what  a  place,  &c. — Newbuiyport  in  general,  and  saint  James  his  park  in 
particular. 

[Inserted  verbatim.] 

In  1797,  he  published  the  second  number  of  his  autobi- 
ography, and  on  the  tvventy-si.xth  of  June,  1798,  announced 
the  completion  of  the  third  ntmibcr,  as  follows  : — 

Jonathan  Plummer,  Jr.,  having  published  the  third  number  of  his 
History,  expects  to  spend  a  few  weeks  in  the  market  in  order  to  sell  it. 
In  this  work  the  marvellous  favour,  the  matchless  kindness  of  the  High- 
est to  the  author  while  a  poor  benighted  Infidel  are  partly  displayed.' 

'  Newburyporl  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  June  26,  I  798. 


436  If  IS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YP  OR  T 

In  this  autobiography  the  author  states  that  he  taught 
school  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  from  1779  to  1782,  and  after- 
wards sold  books,  ballads  and  fruit  in  the  streets  of  Newbury- 
port,  and  made  many  ineffectual  attempts  to  marry  maiden 
ladies  and  widows. 

He  was  a  dreamer  of  dreams,  and  professed  to  see  visions 
and  receive  communications  from  the  spirit  world  that  were 
startling,  and,  in  his  opinion,  inexplicable.  Although  a  devout 
member  of  several  religious  organizations,  he  usually  attended 
the  Sunday  morning  service  in  the  meeting-house  on  Prospect 
street,  where  Rev.  Charles  W.  Milton  officiated.  On  one  oc- 
casion, after  a  brief  illness,  he  sent  up  the  following  note  to 
be  read  before  the  long  prayer : — 

Jonathan  Plummer,  Jr.,  desires  to  return  thanks  to  the  transcendently 
potent  Controller  of  the  Universe,  for  his  marvellous  kindness  to  him 
in  raising  him  from  a  desperately  low  and  perilous  indisposition,  to 
such  a  measure  of  strength  and  health  that  he  is  again  able  with  glad- 
ness of  heart  and  transporting  rapture  of  mind,  to  wait  at  the  celestial 
portals  of  wisdom.  The  said  Plummer  also  desires  to  give  thanks  to 
Alpha  and  Omega,  the  first  and  the  last,  the  beginning  and  the  end, 
for  his  astonishing  favor,  his  captivating  mercy,  and  his  personal  regard 
to  him  in  snatching  him  from  endless  grief  and  everlasting  woe,  in  a 
miraculous  manner;  by  light  in  dreams;  for  causing  the  day  to  dawn 
in  his  heart,  and  the  dayspring  from  on  high  to  illuminate  his  dark  and 
benighted  understanding  ;  for  chasing  far  from  him  the  gloomy  fog  of 
infidelity,  and  enabling  him  triumphantly  to  rejoice  in  the  glorious  light 
and  liberty  of  the  Gospel  wherein  his  blessed  Redeemer  has  crowned 
his  happy  life. 

In  the  prayer  that  followed  Parson  Milton,  who  was  an 
able  and  eloquent  preacher,  addressed  the  throne  of  grace  as 
follows  : — 

O  Lord,  have  mercy  on  this  over-pompous  brother,  whose  wordy  rhet- 
oric has  just  startled  our  ears  ;  save  us  from  cant,  bombast,  and  all  the 
wiles  of  the  devil.     Amen.' 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  January  31,  1S55:  Nonagenarian  (Miss  Sarah  A.  Em- 
ery),  pa^e  252. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  437 

After  the  death  of  Timothy  Dexter,  in  1806,  Jonathan 
Plummer  lived  with  his  unmarried  cousins,  Eunice,  Hannah 
and  Elizabeth  Alexander,  in  a  dwelling  house  then  standing 
on  the  corner  of  High  and  Federal  streets,  Newburyport. 
Soon  after  that  date,  he  published  several  small  pamphlets 
and  a  broad-side  with  the  following  title : — 

The  Newburyport  Hurricane.  By  Jonallian  Plummer,  a  travelling- 
Preacher.  An  Elegiac  Ode  and  a  Funeral  Sermon  on  the  deaths  of 
Mr.  John  Bernard,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Joseph  Wingate,  drowned  near  New- 
buryport, and  Mr.  John  Fisher,  drowned  near  Marblehead  on  the  even- 
ing of  Monday,  the  twenty-second  of  June,  180S,  by  a  most  tremendous 
Hurricane  and  Tornado. 

Printed  for  the  Author  and  sold  by  him  at  his  basket  in  Market 
square,  Newburyport.' 

He  also  published  a  broad-side,  containing  a  sermon  and  an 
ode  on  the  death  of  seventy-nine  persons  who  died  stiddenly 
in  various  towns  in  the  vicinity  of  Newburyport  during  the  hot 
weather  in  the  summer  of   1 8 1 1 .  - 

During  the  last  years  of  his  life,  he  wrote  and  published 
several  wills  that  were  curious  specimens  of  enmity  and  folly. 
One  of  them,  purporting  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament, 
provided  for  the  distribution  of  his  property  among  certain 
young  ladies  and  widows  of  Newbury  and  Newburyport.^ 
None  of  these  wills,  however,  were  properly  executed,  and 
were  superseded  by  one  made  at  a  later  date. 

The  peculiarities  and  singular  costume  of  Jonathan  Plummer 
made  him  conspicuous  wherever  he  went.  In  an  engraving, 
published  in  i  S09,  reproduced  in  the  print  on  page  431,  he  is 
represented  as  standing  in  the  market-place  with  his  basket 
filled  with  books  and  pamphlets  for  sale.-* 

Enfeebled  by  disease,  his  distracted  brain  gave  way  to 
strange  hallticinations   and   led    him    to    self-mtitilation.      He 

1  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

■^  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

^  Reminiscences  of  a  Nonagenarian,  pages  252-255. 

^  Newburyport  Herald  anrl  Country  Gazette,  February  10,  1809. 


438  HIS  TORY  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

recovered  from  his  wounds,  however,  and  died,  unmarried, 
September  13,  18 19.  Notice  of  his  death,  pubHshed  in  the 
Newburyport  Herald  September  14,  18 19,  reads  as  follows: 
''  Yesterday  afternoon  Mr.  Jonathan  Plummer,  aged  58,  poet 
laureate  and  preacher  to  their  majesties  the  sovereign  people." 
On  the  third  of  October  following,  his  will,  providing  for 
the  payment  of  five  dollars  to  each  of  his  cousins,  Eunice, 
Hannah  and  Elizabeth  Alexander,  and  Mary  Barber  of  New- 
buryport and  certain  other  small  bequests,  was  disallowed, 
"  the  testator  not  being  of  sound  mind  when  the  will  was 
executed."'     Two  items  of  this  will  read  as  follows  : — 

It  is  my  will  that  my  executor  shall  have  six  hundred  copies  of  the 
Occurrences  of  my  life  printed  from  the  manuscript  which  I  may  leave 
at  my  disease  and  have  the  same  bound  in  boards,  out  of  the  proceeds 
of  my  estate,  and  the  same  to  give  or  cause  to  be  given  away,  not  ex- 
ceeding one  copy  in  a  family,  and  that  he  shall  give  or  cause  to  be  given 
away  the  whole  edition  of  this  work  within  four  years  after  my  decease. 

I  give  and  bequeath  the  remainder  and  residue  of  my  estate  to  the 
Methodist  Society  in  Greenland,  in  the  county  of  Rockingham  and 
state  of  New  Hampshire,  to  support  the  Gospel,  to  be  paid  by  my  exec- 
utor within  four  years  after  my  decease. 

His  estate  was  appraised  at  $1,573.14.  Samuel  Newman 
was  appointed  administrator,  and  he  distributed  the  balance 
remaining  in  his  hands,  after  the  payment  of  a  few  small  bills 
for  medicine,  clothing,  funeral  expenses,  etc.,  to  the  brothers 
and  sister  of  Jonathan  Plummer  then  living  (Asa,  Francis, 
Edmund,  James  and  Rhoda,  wife  of  Daniel  Bradbury)  and 
to  the  legal  representatives  of  Joseph  Plummer,  deceased, 
and  Sarah  (Plummer)  Marston,  deceased. 

Jane  Hooper,  otherwise  known  as  "  Madam  "  Hooper, 
was  perhaps  thirty-five  or  forty  years  of  age  when  she  came 
to  Newbury,  in  1760.  Her  early  history  is  unknown.  She 
taught  school  for  a  short  time  in  the  vicinity  of  Cottle's  lane, 
and  attracted  considerable  attention  on  account  of  her  pecu- 
liarities and  eccentricities.      She  was  supposed  to  have   suj^er- 

^  tssex  I'robatt  Records,  hook  305,  leaves  142  and  143. 


ECCENTRIC  CHAR. I CTERS 


439 


natural  power,  and  her  house  on  South,  now  Hromficld, 
street  was  visited  by  men  and  wcjmen  anxious  to  know  what 
the  future  had  in  store  for  them.  As  a  fortune  teller  she 
soon  became  famous,  and  sometimes  startled  her  visitors  with 
statements  that  convinced  them  she  was  in  communication 
with  the  Prince  of  Darkness  and  could  rely  upon  him  for 
assistance  and  support.  When  she  appeared  on  the  street 
children  ran  from  her  frightened  at  her  whimsical  dress  and 
strange  demeanor,  but  she  evidently  did  not  seek  their  ap- 
probation nor  attempt  to  win  their  confidence.  During  the 
last  years  of  her  life  she  was  in  destitute  circumstances,  and 
was  assisted  by  the  town  authorities.'  She  died  May  i6, 
1798.  The  following  notice  appeared  in  the  Newburyport 
Herald  and  Country  Gazette  on  the  eighth  of  June  : — 

Died  at  the  alms  house  a  person  known  by  the  name  of  Madam 
Hooper,  aged  about  80,  for  many  years  a  terror  to  weak  and  superstitious 
minds,  who  honored  her  with  the  appellation  of  %vitch. 

Joseph  Knkiht  and  Elizabeth  Cogswell,  "  both  of  Row- 
ley, Mass.,"  were  married  April  14,  1787.  They  had  two 
sons : — 

Henry  Cogswell,  born  in  1788. 
Frederick,  born  October  9,  1791. 

Mrs.  Ellizabeth  (Cogswell)  Knight,  aged  twenty-seven  years 
and  three  months,  died  in  Hampton,  N.  H.,  November  26, 
1791.  Joseph  Knight  married,  September  4,  1793,  Mary 
Treadwell  of  Ipswich,  for  his  second  wife.  In  November, 
1793,  he  purchased  of  Moses  Brown  land  on  the  northeasterly 
corner  of  Charter  and  State  streets,  Newburyport,  with  the 
dwelling  house  thereon,-  where  his  son  Antonio  was  born 
November  2,  1795.  Mis  wife,  Mary  (Treadwell)  Knight, 
twenty-fcnn-  years  old,  died  on  the  tenth  of  December  following. 

'  Mislory  of  Newl)uryi)()it  (Mrs.  E.  \ale  Smith),  paye  35;  Reminiscences  of  a 
Nonagenarian,  jiage  J50. 

'^  Essex  Deeds,  book  157,  leaf  162. 


440 


HI  ST  OR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  T 


He  sold  his  property  in  Newburyport,'  and  probably  removed 

to  Ipswich,  where  he  married,  for  his  third  wife,  Elizabeth ; 

and  died  in  that  town  November  20,  1798,  at  forty  years  of 
age.  Abraham  Wheelwright  was  appointed  administrator  of 
his  estate  on  the  third  of  December  following,  and  "  Elizabeth 
Young,  formerly  Elizabeth  Knight,  widow  of  Joseph  Knight," 
was  paid  a  small  sum  by  order  of  the  probate  court  Septem- 
ber 28,  1824. 

Wade  Cogswell  was  appointed  guardian  of  Frederick  and 
Henry  Cogswell  Knight,  and  Nathaniel  Wade  was  appointed 
guardian  of  Antonio  Knight,  sous  of  Joseph  Knight.'  The 
two  oldest  sons,  Henry  Cogswell  and  Frederick,  lived  with 
their  maternal  grandfather,  13r.  Nathaniel  Cogswell,  in  Row- 
ley, for  ten  or  fifteen  years,  and  Antonio  probably  remained 
in  Ipswich  under  the  care  of  his  guardian. 

Henry  Cogswell  Knight  entered  Harvard  college  in 
1808,  and  remained  until  October,  181 1,  devoting  consider- 
able time  to  literary  work,  and  afterwards  studying  for  the 
ministry.  He  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church,  and  had  charge  of  several  parishes  in  the 
vicinity  of  Boston,  for  a  short  time,  but  became  dissatisfied, 
and  returned  to  Rowley,  saying  that  he  had  mistaken  his 
calling.  He  published  "  Letters  from  the  South  and  West,"' 
two  volumes  of  lectures  and  sermons,  and  several  volumes  of 
poetry,  at  various  dates  between  18 10  and  1830.  He  died 
in  Rowley,  unmarried,  January  10,  1835.^ 

Frederick  Knight,  brother  of  Henry  Cogswell  Knight, 
entered  Harvard  college  in  1807,  remaining  until  a  few  months 
previous  to  the  close  of  his  senior  year,  when  he  decided 
to  complete  his  education  at  the  law  school  in  Litchfield, 
Conn.       He    had    considerable    literary    ability,     and    wrote 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  159,  leaf  71. 

2  Essex  Probate  Records,  December  3,  179S,   and  February  5,  1799- 
^  See  Poets  of  Essex  County,  pages  96  and  97. 


E  C  CENTRIC  CHAR  A  C  TERS 


441 


a  number  of  poems  and  essays  that  were  published  after  his 
death.'  The  following'  ''  Tribute  of  Gratitude  "  to  Hon.  J. 
Phillips  is  from  his  pen  : — 

While  shallow  brooks  and  slender  rills 
Derived  from  rains  and  little  hills 

Go  tinklino^  on  their  way 
As  if  they  thought  their  noisy  thanks 
Would  please  the  springs  along  their  banks, 

As  shallow  things  as  they, 
Deep  rii'ers  by  the  mountains  fed, 
Exhaustless  as  their  fountain  head, 

Roll  silent  to  the  sea.^ 

He  was  not  successful,  however,  as  a  lawyer,  and  soon  re- 
turned to  Rowley,  where  he  died,  unmarried,  November  20, 
1849.  He  gave  his  wearing  apparel,  furniture  and  some  of 
his  personal  property  to  his  brother  Antonio,  and  provided  in 
his  will  for  the  erection  of  a  marble  monument,  "  with  a 
broken  harp  engraved  upon  it,"  in  memory  of  his  brother, 
Henry  Cogswell  Knight,  deceased.  The  sixth  item  of  the 
will  reads  as  follows  : — 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Wheelwright  of  Newburyport, 
who  has  been  a  ministering  angel  of  mercy  to  me,  all  my  manuscripts, 
which  are  in  a  miserable  condition,  and  those  of  my  brother  Henry, 
which  are  in  an  excellent  condition,  with  all  my  writing  paper,  also  my 
mahogany  writing  desk  or  escritoir,  with  all  its  contents  ;  also  the  sum 
of  fifty  dollars,  to  be  paid  her  in  one  year  after  my  decease. 

Antonio  Knight,  half-brother  of  Henry  Cogswell  and 
Frederick  Knight,  entered  Harvard  in  181 1,  but  did  not 
graduate.  He  left  college,  and  began  the  study  of  medicine 
in  1 81 3.  Three  or  four  years  later,  he  opened  an  office  in 
Newburyport,  and  afterward  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  He  was 
never  overburdened  with  patients,  but  managed  to  live  com- 
fortably on  a  small  income  derived  from  his  father's  estate. 

1  Thorn  Cottage,    (jr  the  Poet's  Home,  a   Memorial   of  Frederick   Knight,   esq. 

(1855). 

°  Thorn  Cottage,  page  7 1 . 


442 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Returning  to  Newbury  port,  his  eccentricities  soon  made 
him  conspicuous,  and  his  companions  sometimes  imposed 
upon  his  good  nature  and  amused  themselves  at  his  expense. 
He  visited  the  public  and  private  schools  occasionally,  and 
frequently  called  at  the  school  room  on  Green  street,  where 
Albert  Pike  taught  the  elementary  branches  of  mathematics 
and  philosophy. 


There  it  was  that  Antonio  gave  his  first  recitations  from  his  original 
poems,  and  there  also  the  idea  originated  of  a  public  exhibition  of  the 
Doctor's  oratorical  powers  by  the  declamation  of  his  own  poetical  pro- 
ductions. He  rested  his  fame  upon  the  lives  of  the  ancient  Prophets, 
done  in  verse,  and  for  his  grand  debut  he  selected,  as  a  fair  exhibit  of 
his  genius  and  as  possessed  of  considerable  dramatic  and  startling  ef- 
fect, the  Prophet  Elijah.  The  performance  was  announced  in  the  Her- 
ald, and  it  came  off  in  a  room  secured  for  the  Doctor,  by  his  friends,  in 
Market  square,  in  a  building  afterwards  occupied  by  a  banking  institu- 
tion.' A  respectable  male  audience  assembled  when  Antonio,  mounted  on 
a  box,  with  a  candle  bearer  at  each  side,  enthusiastically  spouted  his  bibli- 
cal effusion,  eliciting  throughout,  and  at  its  close,  tremendous  applause. 
A  copy  was  requested  for  the  press  and  published  by  his  friends  for  his 
benefit." 


"•Miracles  of  God  and  the  Prophets,"  a  poem  in  pamphlet 
form,  was  advertised  in  the  Herald  February  20,  1829.  Sub- 
scribers were  requested  to  call  for  these  pamphlets  "  at  the 
office  of  Dr.  Antonio  Knight,  No.  3  1-2  East  Row,  Market 
Square."  Four  years  later,  Doctor  Knight  published  another 
poem,  "  Respectfully  inscribed  to  Andrew  Jackson,  President 


1  It  is  uncertain  whether  the  recitation  was  given  in  the  building  on  Market 
square,  as  stated  above,  or  in  the  court  house,  as  stated  in  the  following  advertise- 
ment published  in  the  Herald  November  26,  1828:  — 

"At  the  Court  House  at  7  o'clock  on  Friilay  evening  28tli  inst.  there  will  be  a 
Public  Rehearsal  of  Original  Poetry,  by  Dr.  A.  Knight:  at  the  close  of  which 
a  collection  will  be  received.     A  general  attendance  is  invited." 

''■  Recollections  of  Newburyport  (No.  10),  by  James  Morss,  published  in  the 
Herald  August  6,  1864. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS 


443 


of  the  United  States  of  N.  A./'  entitled  "  The  Invitation  and 
Human  Passions."' 

In  February,  1834,  he  was  taken  to  the  state  hospital  for 
the  insane,  but  soon  prevailed  upon  the  selectmen  of  New- 
buryport  to  allow  him  to  return  home  and  provide  his  own 
food  and  clothing,  at  a  cost  not  exceeding  the  amount  paid 
weekly  for  his  board  at  the  hospital.  He  was  prudent  in  the 
expenditure  of  money  placed  in  his  hands,  and  purchased  a 
small  lot  of  land  near  the  Eastern  Railroad  depot,  in  Rowley, 
in  1847,  "^"^^  subsequently  two  additional  lots,  on  which  he 
erected  Rose  cottage.- 

'  The  creation  of  Adam  and  Eve,  the  Sun  and  the  Moon  standing  still  in  the 
valley  of  Ajalon,  and  the  casting  into  the  furnace  of  Shadrach,  Meshach  and 
Abednego  are  descriljed  in  the  following  lines  from  the  poem  entitled  "  Miracles 
of  Ciod  and  the  Prophets  "' :  — 

Adam,  of  human  kind  the  first, 

Was  made  a  living  soul  from  dust ! 

And  Eve,  a  rib  within  his  side, 

Was  taken  thence  to  be  his  bride ! 

Both  innocent  and  pure,  till  they. 

By  subtle  snake,  were  led  astray: 

Which,  with  sweet  speech,  enticed  Eve 

The  Word  of  ( Jod  to  disbelieve  ! 

Too  frail,  alas!   and  Adam,  too, 

Whose  yielding  all  their  race  must  rue. 

Sun,  said  Joshua,  stand  thou  still, 

And  thou,  Moon,  too,  obey  my  will. 

On  Gibeon  the  Sun  obey'd! 

In  Ajalon  the  Moon  was  stay"d ! 

Now,  for  a  day,  chang'd  they  their  shade. 

Nebuchadnezzar,  in  his  ire, 
Cast  into  a  furnace  of  fire 
.Shadrach,  Meshach,  Abednego, 
Who  would  not  to  his  idol  bow. 
Punish 'd  for  refusidg  to  sin, 
They  came  out  whole  as  they  went  in; 
Protected  by  Almighty  care, 
It  did  not  even  singe  their  hair ! 

■^  Essex  Deeds,  book  412,  leaf  122;  book  461,  leaf  283;  and  book  926,  leaf  96. 


444 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Impressed  with  the  idea  that  he  was  endowed  with  super- 
natural power,  he  applied  to  the  General  Court  for  liberty 
to  change  his  name  to  "  Emanuel."  This  request  was  not 
granted,  but  he  was  authorized  by  chapter  two  hundred  and 
fifty-three  of  the  Acts  and  Resolves  for  the  year  1850  to  take 
the  name,  Antonio  E.  Knight.  Four  years  later  he  was  con- 
sidered incapable  of  managing  his  own  affairs,  and  a  guardian 
was  appointed,  who  served  in  that  capacity  until  December, 
1855,  when  the  guardianship  was  dissolved  by  order  of  the 
probate  court. 

Doctor  Knight  was  a  polite  and  courteous  gentleman,  some- 
times noisy  and  occasionally  inclined  to  talk  in  a  loud  tone  of 
voice  on  political  and  religious  subjects.  If  the  train  hap- 
pened to  stop  in  front  of  his  cottage,  when  he  was  in  an 
excitable  condition,  he  proceeded  to  address  the  passengers  in 
vigorous  language,  gesticulating  wildly  all  the  time,  and  fre- 
quently waving  a  tall  silk  hat  above  his  head,  decorated  with 
many  bright  colored  ribbons. 

One  day  an  express  train  on  the  way  from  Newbury  port  to 
Boston,  ran  over  and  killed  a  hen  and  three  chickens  belong- 
ing to  Doctor  Knight.  Having  ascertained  the  name  of  the 
conductor,  he  wrote  him  as  follows : — 

Mr.  Cram,  Dear  Sir:  An  excellent  hen  and  three  beautiful  pullets 
have  just  been  slain  by  the  train  over  which  you  have  the  control.  No 
blame  of  course  could  be  attached  to  any  one  ;  but  as  the  company  are 
wealthy,  they  will  cheerfully  and  promptly  pay  the  damage  to  me,  their 
owner.  Antonio  E.  Knight. 

Enclosed  in  this  note  was  the  following  itemized  bill  : — 

Eastern  Railroad  Company 

To  Antonio  E.  Knight,         Dr. 
To  an  excellent  hen  slain  by  the  train,  ;?  .50 

To  three  beautiful  pullets  slain  by  the  train, 

25  cts.  each,  .75 

#1.25 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS 


445 


Mr.  Cram  handed  the  note  and  bill  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
corporation,  who  read  them  carefully,  and  said,  "  The  road 
will  pay  this  bill  if  it  never  pays  another,"  and  sent  a  check 
forthwith  to  the  depot  master  in  Rowley,  with  orders  to  settle 
the  bill  without  delay. 

Doctor  Knight  married,  in  i860,  Elizabeth  Murphy,  a 
native  of  Ireland.  A  daughter,  Hannah  W.  Knight,  was 
born  January  first,  and  died  December  3,  1861.  Mrs.  Knight 
died  a  few  months  later.  Doctor  Knight  continued  to  reside 
in  Rowley  and  obtained  a  settlement  in  that  town,  paying  a 
poll  tax  there  and  also  a  tax  on  real  estate.  He  considered 
himself  qualified  to  serve  as  governor  of  the  commonwealth, 
and  sent  out  ballots,  written  by  himself,  with  appropriate 
mottoes,  substantially  as  follows,  to  be  used  by  his  friends 
and  neighbors  at  the  annual  election  : — 

Love,  Righteousness  and  Peace. 
For  Governor, 
Antonio  Emanuel  Knight 
and  his  Constitution  of   Power. 

In  1872,  he  sent  the  following  notice  to  Governor  Wash- 
burn : — 

To  Sir  William  B.  Washburn,  Commander  in  Chief  and  Head  of  the 
Statute  in  Power: 
I  Antonio  Emanuel  Knight,  King  of  Peace,  Chieftain,  Governor, 
Mandate,  Head  of  State,  ask,  demand,  and  humbly  request  your  instant 
surrender  to  a  resignation  in  my  favor.  To  the  end  that  my  inaugural 
may  be  a  reality  on  St.  Lammas  day,  the  first  of  August.     Don't  fail ! 

In  August,  1874,  Edmund  Smith  of  Newburyport  was  ap- 
pointed guardian  of  Doctor  Knight,  and  board  was  obtained 
for  him  in  a  private  family  in  Rowley.  In  May,  1877,  his 
dwelling  house,  Rose  cottage,  was  sold  at  auction,  and  the 
proceeds  used  to  defray  his  personal  expenses.  In  May, 
1882,  he  was  taken  to  the  insane  asylum  in  Ipswich,  where 
he  died  on  the  eighth  of  July  following. 


446 


HI  ST  OK  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


Kirk  Boott,  born  in  England  in  1763,  came  to  Newbury- 
port  in  1825,  or  about  that  date,  and  occupied,  for  ten  or  twelve 
years,  a  three-story  dwelling  house  that  is  still  standing  on 
the  southeasterly  side  of  Kent  street,  near  Merrimack  street. 

He  had  evidently  accumulated  considerable  property,  but 
had  met  with  financial  reverses,  and  considered  it  advisable  to 
retire  from  business  and  seek  rest  and  recreation  in  a  small 
commercial  town. 

It  is  said  that  he  left  England  on  account  of  domestic 
troubles ;  that  life  was  a  burden  to  him  there  ;  that  he  came 
to  America  to  superintend  the  construction  of  cotton  spinning 
machinery  ;  that  he  was  interested  in  the  building  of  the 
Boott  mills  in  Lowell  in  1 824 ;  that  he  was  impecunious  and 
dependent  upon  relatives  for  support.  These  statements  are 
unsupported  by  satisfactory  evidence,  and  cannot  be  accepted 
as  worthy  of  careful  investigation. 

Mr.  Boott  made  but  few  acquaintances  in  Newburyport, 
and  was  seldom  seen  in  places  of  public  resort.  His  neigh- 
bors assert  that  he  was  aristocratic  in  his  habits,  and  devoted 
much  time  to  the  study  of  science  and  the  development  of 
manufacturing  industries.  Naturally  reserved  and  uncommu- 
nicative, he  grew  more  and  more  reticent  in  his  later  years, 
and  in  conversation  avoided,  so  far  as  possible,  all  reference 
to  himself  or  to  his  early  life. 

November  20,  1838,  the  Newburyport  Herald  announced 
the  sudden  death  of  "  Mr.  Kirk  Boott  of  London,  England,  aged 
75,"  and  added  parenthetically,  "  His  remains  are  to  be  carried 
to  Boston  for  interment  in  the  cemetery  at  Mount  Auburn." 

His  will,  dated  April  20,  1838,  and  proved  June  11,  1839, 
provided  that  the  balance  of  his  estate,  after  the  payment  of 
his  just  debts,  should  be  transferred  and  paid  over  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Spencer,  his  housekeeper,  "  for  her  sole  use  and 
benefit."' 

The  house  on  Kent  street  occupied  by  Mr.   Boott  at  the 

'  Essex  Probate  Records,  book  410,  leaf  359. 


ECCENTRIC  CHAKAC'IERS  447 

time  of  his  deatii  was  owned  by  the  heirs  of  Butler  Abbott, 
deceased.  Miss  Spencer  continued  to  Uve  there  until  the 
property  was  sold,'  December  i,  1845,  to  Hon.  Albert  Cur- 
rier, when  she  removed  to  a  house  then  standing  on  High 
street,  opposite  the  head  of  Market  street,  where  the  Kelley 
schoolhouse  now  stands. 

Wearing  an  odd-shaped  poke  bonnet,  with  a  heavy  black 
veil,  she  always  appeared,  in  public,  clothed  in  the  habiliments 
of  mourning  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Boott.  Her  peculiarities 
attracted  attention,  and  children  on  the  way  to  school  passed 
her  with  fear  and  trembling. 

She  lived  alone,  occupying  only  two  or  three  rooms  in  the 
spacious  house  on  High  street  built  by  Daniel  Farnham,  esq,, 
previous  to  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport.  One  dark, 
cold  night  in  mid-winter  she  called  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Jacob  W.  Pierce,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  {})  Toppan  were 
then  living,  and  informed  them  that  she  was  very  ill  and  cold. 
She  was  invited  to  remain,  and  a  physician  was  sent  for,  but 
she  grew  rapidly  worse  and  died  January  3,  1852. 

Daniel  Weed  of  Ipswich  was  appointed  administrator  of 
her  estate,  and  on  the  seventeenth  of  February  all  her  house- 
hold furniture,  including  table  linen  and  silver  ware,  was  sold 
at  auction.  Some  old  and  valuable  pieces  of  furniture  and 
silver  ware  had  evidently  been  in  the  possession  of  the  Boott 
family  for  several  generations. - 

Accused  of  malfeasance  in  office,  Daniel  Weed  was  re- 
moved, and  Edmund  Smith  of  Newburyport  was  appointed 
administrator  in  his  place  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  Septem- 
ber, 1853. 

In  the  final  division  of  the  property,  a  small  balance  re- 
maining in  the  hands  of  the  administrator  was  sent,  by  order 
of  the  probate  court,  to  William,  John  and  Thomas  Spencer, 
brothers  of   Elizabeth  Spencer,  residing  in  England,  and  to 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  362,  leaf  96. 

-  The  writer  has  a  tall  eight-day  clock,  purchased  at  this  auction  sale,  that  is  in 
good  running  order,  although  more  than  a  centuiy  old. 


448  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IVB  UR  YPORT 

the  legal  representatives  of  Joseph  and  George  Spencer,  two 
deceased  brothers. 

Rev.  Charles  William  Milton,  born  m  London,  Eng- 
land, Nov.  29,  1767,  was  educated  for  the  ministry  in  the 
seminary  founded  by  Lady  Selina  Huntingdon,  at  Trevecca, 
Wales,  and  came,  after  completing  his  studies,  in  1788,  to 
St.  John,  New  Brunsw^ick.  In  April,  1789,  he  was  invited 
by  Rev.  John  Murray,  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church 
and  society,  to  visit  Newburyport,  but  he  considered  it  advis- 
able to  remain  in  the  British  Provinces  until  July,  1791,  when 
he  sailed  for  Boston,  Mass.,  and  was  again  invited  to  assist  in 
the  work  of  the  ministry  in  Newburyport.  He  accepted  the 
invitation,  and  for  nearly  twelve  months  preached  every  Sun- 
day with  great  ability  and  vigor  to  a  large  congregation  as- 
sembled in  the  Federal  Street  meeting-house.  In  1792,  some 
of  his  friends  having  been  informed  of  his  intended  removal 
to  an  adjoining  town,  persuaded  him  to  remain  and  take 
charge  of  a  society  afterward  incorporated  by  the  name  of 
the  "  Fourth  Religious  Society  in  Newburyport."  Meetings 
were  held  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Anthony  Morse,  in  Milk 
street,  until  the  meeting-house  on  Prospect  street  was  com- 
pleted, when  Rev.  Mr.  Milton  was  installed  pastor,  March  20, 
1794.' 

He  was  a  man  of  strong  religious  convictions  and  marked 
individuality  of  character.  His  sermons,  abounding  in  quaint 
and  queer  conceits,  were  always  interesting  and  instructive. 
Disdaining  the  arts  of  the  orator,  his  phraseology  was  some- 
times rough  and  unpolished,  but  his  theological  views  were 
attractively  and  at  times  eloquently  presented.  He  spoke 
without  notes,  and  was  usually  listened  to  with  the  closest 
attention.  One  warm  Sunday  afternoon,  however,  a  parish- 
ioner whose  Christian  name  was  Mark,  exhausted  by  the  heat 
of  the  day,  had  closed  his  eyes  in  sleep.  Stopping  in  the 
midst  of  an  impassioned  discourse,  the  preacher  startled  his 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,   pages  280-282. 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS 


449 


congregation  and  awoke  his  sleeping  parishioner  by  raising 
his  voice  to  its  highest  pitch  and  calling,  "  Mark  !  "  "  Mark  !  " 
and  after  a  moment's  pause,  continuing  his  exhortation,  in  the 
words  of  the  Psalmist,  "  Mark,  I  say,  the  perfect  man,  and 
behold  the  upright,  for  the  end  of  that  man  is  peace." 

For  several  years  prominent  members  of  his  society  opposed 
the  use  of  instrumental  music  in  the  meeting-house  on  Sun- 
day. He  was  appealed  to  by  those  who  favored  its  introduc- 
tion, and  finally  consented  to  the  proposed  innovation.  The 
necessary  arrangements  were  quietly  and  quickly  made.  Vio- 
lin, bass-viol  and  cornet  players  were  engaged,  and  to  the 
surprise  of  the  congregation,  assisted  at  the  morning"  service 
on  the  following  Sunday.  Irritated  by  these  proceedings,  an 
elderly  and  highly  respected  deacon  rose  in  his  seat,  at  the 
close  of  the  first  hymn,  and  taking  his  hat,  as  though  about 
to  leave  the  meeting-house,  called  out,  in  a  voice  tremulous 
with  emotion,  "Who'll  be  led  away  by  noise, — who'll  be  led 
away  by  noise  ?  "  Rev.  Mr.  Milton,  standing  erect  in  the 
pulpit,  thoroughly  aroused  by  this  unexpected  interference 
with  the  regular  order  of  public  worship,  shouted,  "  Deacon 
Goodwin,  take  your  seat  and  hold  your  tongue, — take  your 
seat,  I  say,  and  hold  your  tongue."  The  energy  and  empha- 
sis with  which  these  words  were  spoken  had  the  desired  effect 
upon  the  discomfitted  deacon,  who  hesitated  a  moment,  and 
then,  without  venturing  a  reply,  quietly  obeyed  the  peremp- 
tory command  of  his  j^astor.  The  service  was  resumed  as 
soon  as  the  commotion  subsided,  and  no  further  objection  was 
made  to  the  singing  of  hymns  with  violin  and  cornet  accom- 
paniment. 

On  another  occasion,  after  listening,  with  evident  mortifica- 
tion and  disgust,  to  the  trite  and  commonplace  remarks  of  a 
young  minister  who  had  been  invited  to  preach  in  the  Pros- 
pect Street  meeting-house.  Parson  Milton  stepped  forward, 
at  the  close  of  the  sermon,  and  said,  with  a  decided  emphasis 
on  the  last  sentence,  "  There  will  be  divine  service  in  this 
house  this  evening,  at  candle  light.     I  sJiall pi-each  myself ^ 


450 


HISTOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


He  remained  pastor  of  the  Fourth  Rehgious  Society  until 
his  death,  but  during  the  last  year  of  his  life  was  involved  in 
a  bitter  controversy  with  some  of  his  parishioners  in  regard 
to  the  appointment  of  a  colleague  to  assist  him  in  his  pastoral 
duties. 

He  died,  suddenly,  at  his  residence  on  Lime  street,  May  i, 
1837,  and  his  relatives  insisted  that  the  funeral  services 
should  be  held  in  the  Federal  Street  meeting-house,  although 
many  of  his  old  parishioners  vigorously  objected.'  A  marble 
monument  in  the  form  of  an  obelisk  marks  his  last  resting 
place  in  the  Old  Hill  burying  ground,  a  few  rods  in  a  south- 
westerly direction  from  the  main  entrance  on  Greenleaf  street.^ 

The  married  life  of  Rev.  Mr.  Milton  was  not  altogether 
happy,  it  is  said,  owing  to  the  violent  temper  of  his  wife,  who 
was  accused  of  locking  him  in  his  room  one  Sunday,  and  de- 
taining him  there  until  released  by  one  of  his  parishioners, 
after  the  hour  for  morning  service  had  expired.  Other  stories, 
similar  in  character,  were  industriously  circulated  by  gossip- 
ing neighbors,  but  the  fact  remains  that  no  serious  quarrel 
interrupted  the  companionship  of  husband  and  wife  or  de- 
stroyed the  peace  and  harmony  of  the  family  circle.  All  the 
real  and  personal  estate  of  Mr.  Milton,  with  the  exception  of 
a  few  small  bequests  to  his  daughters  and  to  his  grandson, 
was  bequeathed  to  his  wife,  Anna,  who  was  named  executrix 
of  his  will. 

Rev.  Charles  William  and  Anna  Milton  had  one  son  and 
six  daughters  born  in  Newburyport,  as  follows : — 

Selina  Mary  Ann,  bom  September,  1792. 

Anna,  "  October  5,  1794. 

Charles  William,  "  November  24,  1795. 

Mary  Ann,  "  May  4,  i  798. 

Anna  Matilda,  "  December  27,  1799. 

Mary  Jane  Clarissa,  "  June  21,  1803. 

Lucretia  Hamsly,  '^  October  28,  1810. 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  May  J 7  and  June  2  and  8,  1837. 

-  The  full  text  of  the  inscription  on  this  monument   will  be    found  on    page  386 
of  Coffin's  History  of  Newbury. 


ECCEXTRIC  CUARACTERS  451 

The  oldest  daughter,  named  for  Lady  Sehna  Huntingdon, 
died  May  28,  181 8,  and  Charles  William  Milton,  an  only  son, 
died  September  i,  1830.  Mary  Jane  Clarissa  Milton  married 
Charles  W.  Brown  May  8,  1823.  Anna  Matilda  Milton  mar- 
ried Rev.  Joseph  Augustus  Edwin  Long  of  Hooksett,  N.  H., 
September  9,  1830,  and  Lucretia  Hamsly  Milton  married 
Thomas  Brown  of  Newburyport  March  25,  1835.' 

Anna  Milton,  widow  of  Rev.  Charles  William  Milton,  died 
August  6,  1846,  aged  seventy-four.  \\\  her  will,  proved  on 
the  eighth  of  September  following,  she  gave  one-half  of  her 
dwelling  house  on  Lime  street,  with  the  portrait  of  her  late 
husband,  to  Anna  Matilda,  wife  of  Rev.  Joseph  Long,  and 
the  other  half  of  the  house,  with  the  household  furniture, 
etc.,  to  Charles  William  Milton  Brown,  a  grandson.  She  also 
made  a  small  bequest  to  each  of  her  grandchildren,  Selina 
Ann,  Thomas  Augustus  and  George  Edward  Brown.  Her 
son-in-law,  Thomas  Brown,  was  appointed  executor  of  her 
will. 

Enoch  Colman  Toppan,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Abraham 
Toppan  who  came  from  Yarmouth,  England,  and  settled  in 
Newbury,  Mass.,  in  1637,  was  the  son  of  Enoch  and  Sarah 
(Colman)  Toppan.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  June  18, 
1765,  and  married  Mrs.  Mary  (Clark)  Nichols  of  Greenland, 
N.  H.,  in  1 79 1.  He  owned  and  occupied  a  two-story  dwelling 
house  on  the  westerly  side  of  High  street,  nearly  opposite 
the  head  of  Winter  street,  in  Newburyport,  and  had  a  work- 
shop on  one  of  the  wharves,  near  the  centre  of  the  town, 
where  he  made  pumps  and  blocks  for  householders  and  ship- 
owners. When  business  was  dull  in  Newburyport,  he  trav- 
eled from  place  to  place  in  a  somewhat  dilapidated  wagon 
drawn  by  an  old  white  horse,  occasionally  playing,  on  a  violin 
that  he  carried  with  him,  a  few  familiar  tunes  to  attract  atten- 
tion and  amuse  the  customers  who  favored  him  with  a  job. 

'  Thomas  Brown  died  June  i,  1867,  and  his  widow,    Lucretia    }Iamsly   Brown, 
died  January  4,  1872. 


452  HISTORY  OF NEWBURYPORT 

He  was  a  famous  rhymester,  and  many  witty  sayings  were 
attributed  to  him  and  published  during  his  life-time.  Some 
boys,  raising  a  kite  by  the  wayside,  called  out,  as  he  passed, 
"  Mr.  Toppan,  give  us  a  rhyme,"  and  cheered  lustily  when  he 
responded,  "Boys,  your  kite,  when  it  comes  night,  will  be  out 
of  sight."  In  answer  to  an  appeal  for  help,  he  wrote  to  a 
dealer  in  crockery  ware  as  follows  :  "Mr.  Wood  will  you  be 
so  good,  as  to  let  Mr.  Noyes  take  his  choice  of  anything  he 
wishes  in  the  way  of  dishes  and  charge  the  same  to  me, 
E.  C.  T." 

James  Carey,  a  well-known  butcher  in  Newburyport,  stand- 
ing on  the  market  house  steps  one  day,  saw  "  Rhymer  "  Top- 
pan  approaching,  and  shouted,  at  the  top  of  his  voice,  "  Mr. 
Toppan,  so  they  say,  for  the  meat  he  buys  will  never  pay," 
but  was  surprised  and  embarrassed  at  the  prompt  reply, 
"  Jimmy  Carey,  if  that  be  true,  I'll  always  buy  my  meat  of 
you." 

A  communication,  published  in  the  Newburyport  Herald 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago,  describes  the  peculiarities  and 
eccentricities  of  cjuaint  old  rhymer  Toppan  as  follows  : — 

I  see  him  now.  as  I  have  often  seen  him.  in  the  earl}-  morning,  with 
his  head  thrown  back,  carolHng  hke  a  lark,  with  his  clear  alto  voice,  to 
the  rising  sun,  a  true  lover  of  nature,  music,  and  his  fellow  man,  always 
cheerful  and  genial,  and  without  an  enem)-.  In  his  gait  he  was  shamb- 
ling, loose-jointed  and  careless  ;  but  little  cared  he  for  precision.  In 
his  shop  he  was  a  pump  and  block  maker  :  but  in  the  streets,  among  his 
fellows,  he  was  the  readiest  rhymer  of  his  day,  always  ready,  pungent, 
and  witty.  Very  many  of  his  good  things  were  appreciated  and  remem- 
bered, but  some  of  the  best  that  were  uttered  in  my  near  neighborhood 
are  not  perhaps  so  well  known. 

Moody  Davis,  the  town  weigher,  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  one 
of  the  last  of  his  peculiar  style,  with  his  gray  suit,  long  vest,  large  pock- 
ets, knee  breeches,  with  silver  buckles  at  the  knee  and  very  large  ones 
in  his  shoes,  with  long  queue  well  powdered,  was  standing  at  his  store 
door  opposite  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  when  a  stranger  approached  and 
asked  him  how  far  it  was  to  the  Rising  Sun  Tavern.  At  that  moment 
Mr.  Davis  saw  our  rhymer  coming  along.  ''  Ask  that  man,"'  saj's  Davis, 
"  and  if  he  doesn't  answer  you  in  rhyme  I  will  give  you  a  glass  of  gin." 


ECCENTRIC  CHARACTERS  453 

Turning  to  Mr.  Toppan,  the  stranger  repeated  his  question.  '-Can  you 
tell  me.  kind  sir,  how  far  it  is  to  the  Rising  Sun  Tavern.?''  Promptly 
came  the  answer,  "  If  the  distance  was  but  little  shorter,  I  should  say 
"twas  a  mile  and  a  quarter."  Then  turning  to  Davis,  he  added,  "  Moody, 
when  next  you  promise  gin.  .speak  low  or  3'Ou"ll  get  taken  in." 

A  verj-  worthy  teamster,  who  followed  a  very  slow  pair  of  oxen  in 
teaming  green  wood  from  the  docks,  an  occupation  not  conducive  to  the 
highest  degree  of  cleanliness,  and  whose  slow  gait,  probably  caused  by 
following  his  slow  team,  had  given  him  the  nickname  of  '•  Lively,"  one 
day  saw  our  rhymer  and  his  dog,  a  fat.  short-legged,  but  faithful  crea- 
ture, approaching,  and  concluded  to  try  a  provocative  shot.  "  Mr.  Top- 
pan,  I  don't  know  whether  your  dog  is  more  like  a  dog  than  he  is  like 
a  hog.     Quick  as  a  flash  came  the  answer  : 

"  If  my  dog  had  but  two  legs. 
And  you  had  four. 
He'd  look  less  like  a  hog, 
But  you  no  more." 

Mr.  Toppan  died  August  22,  1845,  and  his  widow,  Mary 
(Clark-Nichols)  Toppan,  died  May  7,  1846,  leaving  one  son 
and  five  daughters.' 

In  addition  to  the  eccentric  characters  described  in  the  pre- 
ceding pages,  Moses  Gerrish,  nicknamed  "  Fooney  "  Gerrish, 
was  evidently  one  of  the  celebrities  of  the  town  at  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  war.  Having"  learned  the  trade  of  a 
barber,  he  decided  to  establish  himself  in  business  on  his 
own  account.  Renting  a  shop  on  State  street,  near  Market 
square,  he  bought  a  small  stock  of  hair-dressing  materials  and 
provided  a  suitable  book  in  which  to  record  the  sales  that  he 
hoped  to  make  from  day  to  day. 

Mis  first  customer  purchased  a  wig  and  offered  to  pay  cash 
for  it,  but  Gerrish,  pretending  to  be  in  great  haste  and  very 
busy,  said,  "  No  matter  now,  I  can  charge  it."  After  the 
customer  had  taken  his  departure,  the  enterprising  tonsorial 
artist  was  obliged  to  confess  that  he  had  forgotten  to  ask  the 

'  Many  of  the  facts  stated  in  the  above  sketch  have  been  corroborated  and  con- 
firmed by  Enoch  Clark  Toppan,  grandson  of  Enoch  Colman  Toppan. 


454 


1/ IS  TOR  Y  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 


name  of  the  stranger,  and  was  obliged  to  make,  on  the  first 
page  of  his  new  account  book,  the  following  memorandum  : — 

Mr. 

£.     s.     d. 
To  a  brown  wig,  i.     2.     6. 

Massachusetts  currency 
(He  rode  a  sorrel  horse  and  looked  like  an  Amesbury  man.) 

Another  barber,  conspicuous  in  the  town  at  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  was  William  Francis,  who  had  a 
shop  on  the  southwesterly  corner  of  State  street  and  Thread- 
needle  alley.  He  was  a  tall,  well-built  negro,  illiterate,  but 
polite  and  fond  of  notoriety.  To  his  customers,  as  well  as 
to  the  clever  young  men  about  town,  he  was  known  as 
"Emperor"  Francis.  With  the  assistance  of  one  of  his 
literary  friends,  he  prepared  the  following  "proclamation," 
which  was  published  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day  : — ■ 

Imperial  Decree. 

Emperor  Francis  makes  proclamation  that  he  has  caused  his  Imperial 
Pole  to  be  elevated  at  that  elegant,  spacious  and  commodious  edifice 
lately  erected  at  great  expense,  and  by  one  of  the  most  renowned  archi- 
tects in  this  empire,  in  State  street,  Newburyport,  one  door  above  the 
celebrated  General  Wolfe  tavern,  now  kept  by  Mr.  Stetson,  where  he 
intends  to  carry  on  that  once  ba?-be/o\is,  but  now  civilized  and  highly 
celebrated  profession,  in  such  high  repute  in  France  and  other  countries, 
of  H.4IR  Dressing,  Hair  Cutting,  and  Wig  Making,  which  at  a 
single  sight  can  charm. 

Duly  sensible  of  the  many  favors  received  from  the  ladies  and  gentle- 
men of  this  and  other  towns,  he  is  emboldened  to  solicit  a  continuance, 
and  he  pledges  his  Imperial  Crown  that  nothing  shall  be  wanting  on  his 
part  to  render  his  "  Dressing  Academy  '"  the  agreeable  resort  of  all  his 
loyal  subjects,  where  will  be  found  keen  razors,  clean  linen,  &c  &c  &c. 

The  Emperor  farther  declares  in  this  his  decree  that  his  shop  is  not 
blockaded,  the  proclamation  of  Bonapart  or  Huggins  to  the  contrary 
not  withstanding. 

Done  at  Head  Quarters  this  23d  Floreal,  1807.' 

After  the  "great  fire,"  in  181 1,  Emperor  Francis  removed 
to  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  opened  a  barber  shop  there. 

'  Newburj-port  Herald,  May  15,  1807. 


CHAPTER  XXVUI. 

REVIVALISTS,    FOREIGN    TRAVELERS    AND    OTHER    CELEBRITIES. 

In  addition  to  the  distinguished  visitors  who  have  been 
pubHcly  entertained  in  Nevvburyport/  eminent  preachers, 
travelers  and  other  celebrities  have  enjoyed  its  hospitality,  in 
a  less  formal  way,  at  the  dates  named  in  the  following 
biographical  sketches. 

George  Whitefield,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Ed- 
wards) Whitefield,  was  born  in  Gloucester,  England,  Decem- 
ber 1 6,  1 7 14.  His  father  was  an  innkeeper,  and  his  mother 
assisted  in  the  work  of  providing  food  and  lodging"  for  travel- 
ers at  the  Bell  inn. 

When  young  Whitefield  was  only  two  years  old  his  father 
died,  leaving  his  mother,  with  several  children,  in  needy 
circumstances.  She  managed,  however,  to  give  her  son 
George  a  good  grammar  school  education,  and  afterwards 
found  employment  for  him  in  the  inn.  He  developed  a  taste 
for  books  and  study,  and  decided,  when  he  was  fifteen  years 
of  age,  to  re-enter  the  school  of  St.  Mary  de  Crypt,  in  Glou- 
cester, where  he  acquired  a  good  knowledge  of  the  Latin 
classics.  In  1732,  he  entered  Pembroke  college,  Oxford,  as 
a  servitor,  supported  in  part  by  college  funds,  and  remained 
there  until  admitted  to  holy  orders  by  Bishop  Benson,  of  the 
Church  of  England,  in  1736. 

Whitefield  was  an  intimate  friend  of  John  and  Charles 
Wesley,  and  followed  them  to  Savannah,  Georgia,  in  1738, 
where  he  preached  for  two  or  three  months,  returning  to 
England  in  December  of  that  year.     On  Sunday,  January  14, 

^  History  of  Xewhuiyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  40S-420. 
455 


456  HIS  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

1739,  he  was  ordained  a  priest  in  Christ  church,  Oxford,  and 
soon  attracted  attention  as  an  able  and  eloquent  pulpit  orator. 
He  had  a  clear,  sonorous  voice,  and  a  wonderful  command  of 
it,  and  spoke  in  fields  or  in  churches,  wherever  or  whenever 
opportunity  offered,  wearing  always  the  cassock,  gown  and 
bands  of  the  ministers  of  the  Church  of  England. 

On  his  second  visit  to  America  he  organized  and  estab- 
lished a  home  for  orphan  children  in  Georgia,  ten  miles  from 
Savannah,  and  in  March,  1740,  laid  the  foundation  for  a 
building  which  he  called  Bethesda,  "  because  he  hoped  it 
would  be  a  house  of  mercy  to  many  souls."  Early  in  the 
month  of  September  following  he  sailed  from  Savannah,  and 
on  the  fourteenth  of  that  month  arrived  at  Newport,  R.  I., 
on  his  way  to  Boston,  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  and 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.  He  was  hospitably  entertained  in  New- 
bury, and  September  thirtieth,  preached  to  a  large  congrega- 
tion in  the  meeting-house  then  standing  in  what  is  now  known 
as  Market  square,  Newburyport.  Returning  from  Ports- 
mouth, three  days  later,  he  was  received  with  much  enthusi- 
asm, and  Saturday  morning,  October  fourth,  preached  again 
in  >the  same  meeting-house,  collecting  eighty  pounds  for 
the  benefit  of  the  home  for  orphan  children  in  Georgia.  Two 
months  later  he  was  at  the  orphanage  "  Bethesda,"  and  Jan- 
uary 16,  1 74 1,  sailed  from  Savannah  for  England,  where  he 
arrived  on  the  eleventh  of  March. 

November  14,  1741,  he  married  Elizabeth  (Burnell)  James, 
a  widow,  about  thirty-six  years  of  age,  at  St.  Martin's  chapel, 
near  Caerphilly,  in  Wales.  This  marriage  was  not  a  happy 
one,  and  the  death  of  his  wife,  in  1768,  is  said  to  have  "  set 
his  mind  much  at  liberty." 

In  August,  1744,  he  sailed  from  Plymouth,  England,  with 
his  wife,  and  arrived  at  York,  Me.,  in  the  month  of  October 
following.  He  was  then  in  poor  health,  and  during  the  next 
two  or  three  years  made  an  extended  tour  through  the  Middle 
and  Southern  states,  returning  to  Boston  in  July,  1747.  On 
the  twenty-ninth  of  that  month,  he  came  again  to  Newbury, 


REVIVALISTS,  FOKEIGX  TRAVELERS,  ETC.  ^57 

now  Nevvburyport,  and  preached,  probably,  in  the  meeting- 
house, erected  two  years  previous  to  that  date,  on  High 
street,  near  the  corner  of  Federal  street.  Several  months 
later,  he  was  in  Georgia,  and  afterwards  visited  the  Bermuda 
islands,  on  his  way  to  England,  where  he  arrived  June  30, 
1748. 

On  his  fifth  visit  to  America  he  preached  in  Newbury  on 
Monday,  the  twenty-first,  on  Tuesday,  the  twenty-second,  and 
on  Sunday,  the  twenty-seventh  of  October,  in  1754. 

Newburyport  was  incorporated  February  4,  1764,  and  on 
the  twenty-second  of  March  following  he  was  hospitably  en- 
tertained in  the  new  town  by  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons  and 
others  interested  in  evangelical  work. 

On  his  seventh  and  last  visit  to  America  Whitefield  preached 
in  Newburyport  on  the  tenth  and  eleventh  of  September, 
1770,  and  afterward  went  to  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  to  York, 
Me.  Returning  Saturday  morning,  September  twenty-ninth, 
he  preached  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  came  to  Newburyport  early 
in  the  evening,  completely  exhausted,  by  the  labors  of  the  day. 
He  breathed  with  difficulty,  and  after  a  light  supper  at  the 
residence  of  his  devoted  friend.  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons,  he 
retired  to  rest,  but  grew  worse  during  the  night,  and  died  at 
six  o'clock  Sunday  morning,  September  30,  1770,  He  was 
buried  in  a  brick  vault  beneath  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian meeting-house,  Tuesday  afternoon,  October  2,  1770. 
The  house  in  which  he  died  is  still  standing  in  School  street, 
but  has  been  converted  into  a  tenement  for  two  families.' 

John  Murray,  afterwards  known  as  ''Salvation"  Murray, 
was  born  December  10,  1741,  in  the  town  of  Alton,  county 
of  Hampshire,  England.  When  he  was  eleven  years  of  age 
he  removed  with  his  father  and  other  members  of  the  family 
to  Cork,  Ireland,  where  he  lived  for  many  years.  After  com- 
pleting his  education  he  decided  to  become  an  evangelist,  and 

'  Life  of  Rev.  George  Whitefield,  by  Rev.  L.  Tyerman,  in  two  volumes;  also, 
"Ould  Newbury:"    Historical  anrl  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  526-529. 


458 


HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 


sailed  for  America  July  21,  1770,  arriving  at  Philadelphia  in 
the  month  of  September  following.  October  30,  1773,  he 
preached  in  Boston  for  the  first  time,  and  two  or  three  days 

later  came  to  Newbury  port  in  company  with  Mr.  • Little, 

who  lived  in  a  house  that  is  still  standing  on  the  northeasterly 
side  of  School  street,  near  the  First  Presbyterian  meeting- 
house. Concerning  this  visit  Rev.  Mr.  Murray  subsequently 
published  the  following  account  : — 

On  our  arrival  inquiries  were  made  at  the  coach  side  if  I  were  there ; 
and  on  being  answered  in  the  affirmative,  a  crowd  collected.  Mr.  Par- 
sons, the  Presbyterian  minister,  a  venerable  looking  gentleman,  immedi- 
ately visited  me  and  asked  me  many  questions.  Where  I  came  from  ? 
what  clergymen  I  was  acquainted  with  ?  and  what  credentials  I  could 
produce?  During  his  inquiries  he  discovered,  as  it  appeared  to  me, some 
uneasiness  at  the  idea  of  my  preaching  in  his  pulpit;  I  therefore  hastened 
to  inform  him  that  I  was  no  priest,  nor  approved  of  by  gentlemen  of  that 
order ;  that  I  professed  myself  somewhat  acquainted  with  the  salvation 
wrought  out  by  Jesus  Christ,  and  that  wherever  his  providence  called  me 
1  was  willing  to  speak  well  of  the  name  of  the  Redeemer;  but,  I  added, 
that  I  had  great  reluctance  in  speaking  in  any  place  in  opposition  to  the 
wishes  of  the  officiating  minister.  Mr.  Parsons  replied :  The  house  was 
not  his,  it  was  the  property  of  the  people,  and  when  it  was  not  occupied 
they  had  an  indubitable  right  to  invite  who  they  pleased.  Speaking  of 
my  call  to  preach,  whether  ordinary,  or  extraordinary,  I  observed  I  had 
both  ;  when  he  petulently  asked  :  "  Pray,  can  j-ou  speak  with  tongues  "'? 
It  is  possible  I  may,  sir,  with  tongues  that  you  may  not  understand. 
However,  your  question  is  as  much  against  you  as  against  me.  Jesus 
says,  among  the  many  signs  that  shall  follow  those  who  believe,  they 
shall  heal  the  sick  by  laying  hands  upon  them,  and  if  they  take  up  any 
deadly  thing  it  shall  not  hurt  them.  From  these  evidences,  sir,  perhaps 
it  would  be  as  hard  for  you  to  prove  yourself  even  a  believer,  as  for  me 
to  prove  myself  a  preacher  sent  of  God. 

While  we  were  yet  conversing,  the  bell  was  rung,  and  a  large  congre- 
gation assembled,  among  which  Mr.  Parsons  himself  attended  ;  and  I 
selected  for  my  subject,  Isaiah  Iv.,  10,  11.  Agreeably  to  his  earnest  re- 
quest, Mr.  Little  was  my  host  ;  and  upon  the  ensuing  morning  (Satur- 
day), in  consequence  of  a  very  polite  invitation,  I  breakfasted  with  Mr. 
Parsons,  and  I  was  received  by  him,  and  his,  very  cordially;  his  coun- 
tenance brightened  upon  me,  and  he  requested  me  to  preach  again  in 
his  church  on  that  day:  nor  was  this  all ;  he  walked  with  me  to  the  pul- 


REVIVALISTS,  FOREIGN  TRAVELERS,  ETC.  459 

pit.  and  sat  with  me  there,  while  I  preached  preparatory  to  the  commu- 
nion upon  John  xv.,  12.  On  the  ensuing  day  (Sunday),  by  the  request 
of  Mr.  Marsh,  who  was  indi.sposed,  I  preached  both  morning  and  even- 
ing at  his  church.'  Several  friends  visited  me  at  Mr.  Little's,  and  we 
closed  the  day  with  prayer.  I  was  rather  surprised  to  learn  that  I  lodged^ 
at  Mr.  Little's,  upon  the  very  same  bed  in  which  Mr.  Whitefield  had  re- 
posed, and  that  I  had  preached  in  the  pulpit  before  which  he  was  en- 
tombed. I  continued  in  Newburyport,  passing  my  time  most  pleasantly^ 
a  second  Sunday  ;  I  preached,  morning  and  evening,  in  the  pulpit  of  Mr. 
Marsh  ;  I  gave  frequent  lectures  there  and  in  the  meeting-house  of  Mr. 
Parsons,  who  always  sat  in  the  pulpit  with  me  and  frequently  entertained 
me  most  hospitably  at  his  house.  His  lady  appeared  to  merit  a  rank 
among  the  most  accomplished  of  women ;  she  was  highly  social,  senti- 
mental, and  pleasant.  The  circle  of  my  friends  in  Newburyport  was 
very  respectable.  Upon  a  lecture  evening,  after  I  had  closed,  an  old,, 
grey-headed  man,  a  member  of  Mr.  Parsons'  church,  quitting  his  seat, 
addressed  the  congregation,  and  in  a  loud  voice  said :  "  My  friends,  this 
is  a  servant  of  the  living  God,  who  is  come  from  a  far  country  to  pro- 
claim the  glad  tidings  of  salvation.  We  have  too  long  been  in  dark- 
ness ;  yea,  our  tongues  have  cleaved  to  the  roofs  of  our  mouths,  and  this 
man  is  sent  to  animate  and  renew  our  faith."  Many  blessed  God  they 
had  seen  and  heard  me :  and  all  this  I  imputed  to  a  want  of  knowledge 
relative  to  the  extent  of  the  glad  tidings  I  promulgated.  The  Grace, 
Union  and  Membership  upon  which  I  expatiated  were  admitted  by  every 
Calvinist,  but  admitted  only  for  the  elect :  and  when  I  repeated  those 
glorious  texts  of  scripture  which  indisputably  proclaim  the  redemption 
of  the  lost  world,  as  I  did  not  expressly  say  my  brethren  I  receive  these 
texts  in  the  unlimited  sense  in  which  they  are  given. — they  were  not  ap- 
prised that  I  did  not  read  them  with  the  same  contracted  views  to  which 
they  had  been  accustomed.  When  they  became  assured  of  the  magni- 
tude and  unbounded  result  which  I  ascribed  to  the  birth,  life  and  death 
of  the  Redeemer,  their  doors  were  fast  closed  against  me.     .     .     .     - 

November  10,  1773,  Rev.  Mr.  Murray  went  to  Port.smouth^ 
N.  H.,  where  he  remained  several  days.  Returning  to  New- 
buryport, he  accepted  invitations  to  preach  in  the  First  Pres- 

'  Kev.  Christopher  Bridge  Marsh  was  pastor  of  the  Third  Religious  Society  in 
Newburyport.      He  died  December  3,  1773. 

-  Records  of  the  Life  of  Rev.  John  Murray,  written  by  himself;  second  edi- 
tion, published  by  Bowen  &  Gushing  of  Itoston,  in  1827,  pages  252-255  (Essex 
Institute,  .Salem,  Mass.). 


46o  .  HISTORY  OF  NEIVBURVPORT 

byterian  and  the  North  Congregational  meeting-houses.  A 
week  later,  on  his  way  to  Philadelphia,  he  addressed  a  large 
gathering  of  men  and  women  in  Faneuil  hall,  Boston.  His 
religious  views  and  opinions  attracted  considerable  attention, 
and  he  was  subsequently  installed  pastor  of  the  Independent 
Church  of  Christ  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  he  remained 
until  1793,  when  he  accepted  an  invitation  and  assumed  the 
duties  of  pastor  of  the  Universalist  church  in  Boston.  He 
died  in  that  city  September  3,  181  5,  after  a  long  and  severe 
illness. 

Francois  Jean  Chastellux,  afterwards  Marquis  de  Chas- 
tellux,  was  born  in  Paris  in  1734,  entered  the  army  when  only 
fifteen  years  of  age,  and  distinguished  himself  as  colonel  of  a 
regiment  in  the  seven  years'  war  in  Germany.  In  1777,  he 
was  a  major-general  under  Rochambeau  in  the  American 
army,  commanded  by  Washington,  and  afterwards  traveled 
with  his  aide-de-camp  and  other  military  officers  from  Virginia, 
through  the  Middle  states,  to  Massachusetts  and  New 
Hampshire.  Returning  to  Boston  from  Portsmouth,  in 
November,  1782,  he  stopped  for  a  day  and  a  night  at  the 
Wolfe  tavern,  in  Newburyport,  and  evidently  enjoyed  a 
social  evening  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  John  Tracy  on  High 
street,  where  he  and  his  companions  were  entertained  with 
music  and  a  generous  supply  of  wine  and  tobacco.'  The 
next  day  he  wrote  in  his  journal  : — 

I  left  A'cwbury  Port  the  13th  at  ten  in  the  morning,  and  often  stopped 
before  I  lost  sight  of  the  pretty  little  town,  for  I  had  great  pleasure  in 
enjoying  the  different  aspects  it  presents.  It  is  in  general  well  built,  and 
is  daily  increasing  in  new  buildings.  The  warehouses  of  the  merchants, 
which  are  near  their  own  houses,  serve  by  way  of  ornament,  and  in  point 
of  architecture  resemble  not  a  little  our  large  greenhouses. 

Marquis  de  Chastellux  sailed  from  Philadelphia,  in  1783, 
for  P" ranee.     He  died  in  Paris  October  28,  1788. 

'  Travels  in  North  America  in  the  years  1780,  1781  and  1782,  by  the  Marquis 
de  Chastellux;  English  edition,  1787,  %'olume  II,  pages  240-249;  and  "  Ould 
Newbury:"   Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  579-583. 


REVIVALISTS,  FOREIGN  TRAVELERS,  ETC.  461 

John  Pierre  Brissot  de  Warville,  born  near  Chartres, 
in  France,  January  14,  1754;  studied  law  in  Paris,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1784,  he  was  unjustly  accused  of 
writing  and  publishing  a  pamphlet  reflecting  on  the  queen, 
Marie  Antoinette,  and  was  imprisoned  in  the  bastile  for  four 
months.  After  his  release  he  went  to  London,  and  there 
edited  a  quarterly  review  or  periodical  called  the  "  Lyceum." 
Returning  to  Paris,  he  founded  a  society  for  the  amelioration 
and  education  of  negroes,  in  1788,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  to  study  the  effect  of  slavery  on  the  colored  race.  In 
October  of  that  year,  after  visiting  New  York  and  Philadel- 
phia, he  came  to  Newburyport,  on  his  way  from  Boston  to 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  was  entertained  at  the  Spencer-Pierce 
house,  in  Newbury,  by  Nathaniel  Tracy,  who  was  then  living 
there.' 

On  his  return  from  Portsmouth,  Brissot  came  by  the  way 
of  Amesbury  ferry,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Powow  river,  to  New- 
bury, and  thence  to  the  residence  of  Tristram  Dalton,  at  Pipe- 
Stave  hill.  Two  or  three  weeks  later  he  was  in  New  York, 
and  subsequently  traveled  on  horseback  through  the  Middle 
states  and  Western  territory.  "  In  1789,  he  sailed  for  P" ranee, 
and  soon  became  an  active  leader  in  the  French  revolution. 
With  twenty  other  Girondists,  he  suffered  death  under  the 
guillotine  October  30,  1793. 

In  1796,  the  Duke  de  Chartres,  afterwards  King  Louis 
Philippe,  speaking  the  language  and  wearing  the  dress  of  a 
Danish  soldier,  applied  to  Captain  Ewing  of  the  ship  "America  " 
and  engaged  passage  from  Hamburg  to  the  United  States. 

The  ship  left  the  Elbe  the  24th  of  September,  1796,  and  after  a  pleas- 
ant passage  of  twenty-seven  days  arrived  at  Philadelphia. - 

'  New  Travels  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Performed  in  1 788,  by  J.  P. 
Brissot  de  Warville;  American  edition,  1797,  pages  254-256;  and  "Quid  New- 
bury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  342  and  553. 

*  France,  its  King,  Court  and  Government,  by  Gen.  Lewis  Cass,  page  109. 


462  HIS  rOK  V  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

The  following  notice  appeared  in  the  columns  of  the  Co- 
lumbian Centinal,  published  in  Boston,  November  2,  1796: — 

In  the  America,  arrived  at  Philadelphia  from  Hamburg,  came  passen- 
gers L.  P.  B.  Orleans,  eldest  son  to  the  ci-devant  Egalite,  and  Col.  Fon- 
tigebeau,  aide-de-camp  to  M.  De  La  Fayette  during  the  American  revo- 
lution. 

"  L.  P.  B.  Orleans,"  otherwise  known  as  the  Duke  de 
Chartres,  and  afterwards  as  King  Louis  Philippe,  leased  a 
dwelling  house  in  Philadelphia,  which  he  occupied  with  two 
brothers  who  came  to  the  United  States  a  month  or  two  later. 
In  the  summer  of  1 797,  he  traveled  with  his  brothers  through 
the  Western  states,  and  in  the  month  of  September  follow- 
ing came  to  Boston,  and  thence  by  the  way  of  Newburyport 
and  Portsmouth  to  Portland.  He  probably  remained  in  New- 
buryport only  a  few  days,  but  during  that  time  rode  in  an 
open  carriage  over  the  Essex-Merrimack  bridge  to  Salisbury 
Point,  and  thence  along  the  northerly  bank  of  the  Merrimack 
river  to  Haverhill,  returning  by  the  way  of  Rock's  bridge  and 
what  is  now  the  town  of  West  Newbury  to  Newburyport.' 

Three  or  four  weeks  later  he  was  again  in  Boston,  having 
in  the  meanwhile  visited  some  of  the  principal  sea-coast  towns 
in  Maine  and  New  Hampshire.  October  21,  1797,  the 
Columbian  Centinal  published  the  following  notice : — 

The  fame  of  Boston  for  the  salubrity  of  its  climate  and  hospitality  of 
its  citizens  is  rapidly  appreciating ;  and  it  annually  becomes  the  increased 
resort  of  foreigners  and  southerners  of  distinction.  We  have  now  as 
visitors,  among  many  others,  the  three  sons  of  the  late  Duke  of  Orleans, 
the  Dukes  of  Orleans,  Chartres,  and  Monpensier. 

Louis  Philippe,  with  his  brothers,  the  Dukes  of  Orleans, 
and  Monpensier,  remained  quietly  in  Boston  until  the  middle 

'  Rise  and  Fall  of  Louis  Philippe,  by  Beri:  Perley  Poore,  page  95. 

The  statement  that  Talleyrand,  the  distinguished  minister  of  foreign  affairs  in 
France,  accompanied  Louis  Philippe  on  this  visit  to  Newburyport  and  Haverhill,  is 
evidently  incorrect.  Talleyrand  came  to  America  early  in  i  794,  and  returned  to 
France  in  September,  1796.  Louis  I'hilippe  did  not  arrive  in  Philadelphia  until 
October  24,  1796. 


REVIVALISTS,  FOREIGN  TRAVELERS,  ETC.  463 

of  November.  December  10,  1797,  they  left  New  York  for 
Pittsburg,  on  their  way  to  New  Orleans  and  Havana,  where 
they  took  passage  for  France. 

Matthew  Thornton,  son  of  James  Thornton,  was  born  in 
Ireland  in  17 14.  When  two  years  of  age  he  came  with  his 
father  to  Wiscasset,  Maine,  and  afterward  removed  to  Wor- 
cester, Massachusetts,  where  he  studied  medicine  and  surgery 
with  Doctor  Grout  of  Leicester,  and,  in  1740,  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Jackson,  by  whom  he  had  several  children. 

He  was  president  of  the  first  provincial  congress  held  in 
New  Hampshire,  in  1775,  and  was  appointed,  in  1776,  dele- 
gate from  that  state  to  the  Continental  congress,  then  in  ses- 
sion at  Philadelphia.  He  did  not  take  his  seat  and  was  not 
qualified  to  vote  until  November,  but  was  allowed  to  sign  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  adopted  July  4,  1776,  and  was 
subsequently  appointed  a  delegate  to  the  fourth  Continental 
congress,  and  served  for  one  year  from  January  23,  1777. 

Two  years  later.  Doctor  Thornton  removed  from  London- 
derry to  Exeter,  and,  in  1780,  to  Merrimack,  N.  H.  His  son, 
Matthew  Thornton,  born  in  1771,  graduated  at  Dartmouth 
college  in  1797,  studied  law  in  Amherst,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Merrimack, 
N.  H.     He  died  December  5,  1804,  aged  thirty-three. 

Hannah  Thornton,  daughter  of  Doctor  Thornton,  married 
John  McGaw,  and  came,  with  her  husband,  to  Newburyport 
in  1798  probably.  She  lived  in  a  small  house  on  Water  street, 
near  the  foot  of  State  street,  in  1803.'  This  house  was 
destroyed  by  the  "  great  fire  "  in  181 1.  Thornton  McGaw, 
son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Thornton)  McGaw,  was  born  in 
Newburyport  July  24,  1799,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1820, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  afterward  opened  a  law  office  in 
Bangor,  Maine,  where  he  died  October  5,  1859. 

'  Essex  Deeds,  book  171,  leaf  114;  book  175,  leaf  20;  book  189,  leaves  6  and 
7;    and  book  278,  leaf  226, 


464  ^^^  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UR  YPOR  T 

Dr.  Matthew  Thornton  died  June  24,  1803,  while  on  a  visit 
to  his  daughter,  in  Newburyport,  and  was  buried  in  the  grave- 
yard near  Lutwyche,  now  Thornton,  ferry,  in  the  town  of 
Merrimack,  N.  H.  On  his  gravestone  is  the  following  in- 
scription : — 

Erected  to  the  memory  of  the  Hon.  Matthew  Thornton,  Esq.,  who 
died  June  24,  1803,  aged  eighty-nine  years.     "  The  honest  man." 

August  28,  1885,  the  governor  and  council  of  the  state  of 
New  Hampshire  were  authorized  to  erect  a  suitable  monument 
to  mark  the  last  resting  place  of  Doctor  Thornton.  This 
monument  was  dedicated  with  appropriate  exercises  Septem- 
ber 29,  1892,  in  the  presence  of  His  Excellency  Hiram  A. 
Tuttle  and  a  large  gathering  of  men  and  women  prominent 
in  the  political,  professional  and  social  life  of  the  state,  in- 
cluding Dr.  Warren  W.  Pillsbury,  now  an  inhabitant  of  New- 
buryport, who  presided  at  the  meeting  and  introduced  the 
distinguished  speakers. 

The  monument  of  finely  hammered  Concord  granite,  about 
six  and  a  half  feet  square  at  the  base  and  rising  to  the  height 
of  thirteen  feet,  bears  the  following  inscription  : — 

IN    MEMORY    OF 

MATTHEW  THORNTON 

ONE   OF    THE    SIGNERS    OF    THE 
DECLARATION    OF    INDEPENDENCE 
ERECTED    BY    THE    STATE    OF 
NEW    HAMPSAIRE     UPON    A    LOT 
AND    FOUNDATION     PRESENTED 
BY    THE    TO\VN    OF  MERRIMACK. 

Alexandre  Vattemare,  born  in  Paris  Novembers,  1796, 
studied  surgery,  and,  in  18 14,  went  to  Berlin,  where  he  ac- 
quired and  developed  the  art  of  ventriloquism,  and  gave  many 
public  exhibitions  of  his  skill,  imitating  old  men  and  old 
women,  young  boys  and  girls,  and  changing  his  features  and 
his  costume  almost   instantaneously.     At   the  solicitation  of 


RF.VIVAUSrS,   FOKEICX  TRAVFJ.ERS,   ETC.  465 

many  persons  of  distinction,  he  visited  England  in  1822,  and 
on  Easter  Monday  gave  an  interesting  and  attractive  enter- 
tainment, in  three  parts,  at  the  Adelphi  theatre  in  London. 

When  Monsieur  Alexandre'  was  in  Scotland,  in  1824,  he 
visited  Sir  Walter  Scott  at  Abbotsford  and  entertained  his 
distinguished  host  and  other  visitors  with  his  unrivalled  imi- 
tations. When  he  was  about  to  take  his  departure  Sir  Walter, 
who  held  the  office  of  sheriff  for  the  county  of  Selkirk,  has- 
tily composed  the  following  lines  and  handed  them  to  the 
celebrated  ventrilocjuist  : — 

Of  yore  in  old  England  it  was  not  thought  good 

To  carry  two  visages  under  one  hood  : 

What  would  folks  say  to  you  ?  who  have  faces  such  plenty, 

That  from  under  one  hood  you  last  night  show'd  us  twenty  ! 

Stand  forth,  arch  deceiver,  and  tell  us  in  truth. 

Are  you  handsome  or  ugly,  in  age  or  in  youth  ? 

Man,  woman,  or  child — a  dog  or  a  mouse  ? 

Or  are  you,  at  once,  each  live  thing  in  the  house  ? 

Each  live  thing  did  I  ask? — each  implement,  too, 

A  workshop  in  your  person — saw,  chisel,  and  screw  I 

Above  all,  are  you  one  individual  ?      I  know 

You  must  be  at  least  Alexandre  and  Co. 

But  I  think  you"re  a  troop — an  assemblage — a  mob, 

And  that  I  as  the  Sheriff  should  take  up  the  job 

And  instead  of  rehearsing  your  wonders  in  verse, 

Should  read  you  the  Riot  Act  and  bid  you  disperse.- 

In  1839,  Monsieur  Vattemare  became  interested  in  a  plan 
to  establish  an  international  exchange,  and  came  to  the 
United  States  to  secure  the  co-operation  of  the  national  gov- 
ernment. He  proposed  to  bring  from  the  libraries  of  Ger- 
many, France  and  England,  to  this  country,  duplicate  copies 
of  valuable  books  and  pamphlets,  especially  government  pub- 
lications, and  maps,  engravings  and  manuscripts  of  historical 
interest.     At    his    earnest    solicitation,    congress,  as  well  as 

I  As  a  venlriloijuist  he  was  known  as  Monsieur  Alexandre;  as  the  originator  and 
promoter  of  the  international  book  exchange  his  name  was  Monsieur  \altemare. 
-  Scott's  Poetical  Works, — Lyrical  and  Miscellaneous  Pieces. 


466  HISTORY  Of  NEWBURYPORT 

several  state  legislatures,  appropriated  money  to  organize  and 
develop  this  scheme. 

He  came  again  to  the  United  States  in  April  or  May,  1847, 
and  during  the  following  summer  visited  Newburyport  and 
was  entertained  at  Indian  Hill  farm,  in  West  Newbury,  Mass., 
for  several  weeks,  by  Major  Ben  :  Perley  Poore,  whose  ac- 
quaintance he  had  formed  in  Paris  in  1846.  Although  devoted 
mainly  to  the  work  in  which  he  was  deeply  interested,  he 
found  time  occasionally  to  amuse  the  younger  members  of  the 
household  with  his  imitations  of  decrepit  men  and  roguish 
boys. 

Returning  to  Paris,  in  1849,  he  was  disappointed  to  find 
that  the  French  government  was  not  inclined  to  favor  his 
management  of  the  international  exchange.  Although  he  had 
sent  three  hundred  thousand  valuable  publications  to  the 
hbraries  of  the  United  States,  his  methods  were  severely 
criticised,  and  he  considered  it  advisable  to  resign  his  position 
and  retire  to  private  life.      He  died  in  Paris  April  7,  1864.' 

'  For  further  details  relating  to  the  lite  of  Alexandre  Vattemare,  see  "  The 
Strange  Career  of  an  Artist,"  published  in  Hours  at  Home  (  1868),  volume  \TI, 
page  534- 


CHAPTER   XXIX. 

MEMBERS    OF    CON(iRESS    FROM    NEWBURY    AND    NEWBURVPORT, 

At  the  first  session  of  the  Continental  congress,  held  in 
Philadelphia  September  5,  1774,  Thomas  dishing,  John 
Adams,  Samuel  Adams  and  Robert  Treat  Paine  represented 
Massachusetts. 

John  Lowell  was  elected  a  delegate  and  took  his  seat  in 
congress  May  20,  1782.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Lowell, 
pastor  of  the  First  Religious  Society  in  Newburyport.' 

Jonathan  Jackson,  an  intimate  friend  and  neighbor  of 
John  Lowell,  was  elected  May  second,  but  did  not  take  his 
seat  in  congress  until  July  3,  1782.^ 

RuFUS  KiNfi,  then  a  lawyer  in  Newburyport,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Continental  congress  in  1784,  1785  and  1786.^ 

The  first  session  of  congress,  after  the  adoption  of  the 
Federal  constitution,  was  held  in  New  York  March  4,  1789. 
Caleb  Strong  and  Tristram  Dalton  were  senators  from  Massa- 
chusetts.    The  long  term  fell  by  lot  to  Caleb  Strong. 

Trlstram  Dai-Ton,  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  (Little) 
Dalton,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  May  28, 
1738.  In  1791,  Tristram  Dalton  was  a  candidate  for  re-elec- 
tion to  the  senate,  but,  owing  to  the  strong  party  feeling  pre- 
vailing at  that  time,  was  defeated  and  retired  from  public  life.^ 

1  "Ould  Newbury:"    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  577-579- 

'•^  "  Ould  Newbur)' : "    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  564-568. 

■'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  page  414.  Kufus  King,  son  of  Richard 
and  Sibbella  King  of  Scarborough,  Me.,  was  baptized  in  the  Second  church  in  that 
town  April  6,  1755.  (See  New  England  Historical  and  (lenealogical  Register, 
1884,  page  341.) 

*  "  Ould  Newbury:"    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  477-483. 

467 


46S  inSTOR  V  OF  NE  WR  UR  YPOR  T 

Theophilus  Bradbury  of  Newburyport  was  elected  rep- 
resentative to  the  fourth  congress,  which  assembled  in  Phila- 
delphia December  7,  1795,  and  to  the  first  session  of  the 
fifth  congress  held  in  the  same  place  in  1797.' 

He  was  born  in  Newbury  November  13,  1739,  graduated  at 
Harvard  college  in  1757,  studied  law  in  Boston,  and  commenced 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Falmouth,  now  Portland, 
Maine,  in  May,  1762.  He  married,  August  26,  1762,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Ephraim  Jones.  Theophilus  and  Sarah  (Jones) 
Bradbury  had  eight  children,  namely  : — 

Theophilus,  born  in  i  763  ;  married,  probably,  Lois  Pilsbury  of 

Newbury  Oct.  3,  i  792,  and  after- 
wards Harriet  Harris  Oct.  8,  1798. 

Francis,  "     "      1 766  ;  married  Hannah  Jones  Spooner  of 

Dorchester  October  6,   1803. 

William,  "     '•      1 768  ;  died,  unmarried,  in  San  Domingo. 

Frances,  "     "      1 769  ;  died  in  infancy. 

George,  "     "      1770;  married  Mary  Kent  June  15,  1800. 

Harriet,  "     •'      1773;  married  Thomas  W.  Hooper    Sep- 

tember 17,  1792. 

Charles,  "     "      1775;  married  Eleanor  Cummings  of  Port- 

land. 

Frances,  "     "      1777;  died,  unmarried,  Nov.  30,  1801.- 

Theophilus  Parsons  of  Newbury  was  a  student  in  Mr. 
Bradbury's  office,  at  Falmouth,  for  several  years  previous  to 
1774.  After  the  destruction  of  that  town  by  the  British 
troops  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  Mr.  Bradbury  removed  to 
Newburyport,  and,  in  1 786,  bought  a  lot  of  land  and  built  a 
dwelling  house,  on  the  northwesterly  side  of  Green  street, 
which  he  owned  and  occupied  until  his  death. ^ 

1  At  that  date  the  towns  of  Salisbury,  Aniesbuiy,  Methuen,  Haverhill,  Andover, 
Bradford,  Newbury,  Newburyport,  Hamilton,  Rowley,  Ipswich,  Wenham,  Tops- 
field  and  Gloucester  constituted  the  Fourth  Middle  congressional  district  of  Essex 
county,  Massachusetts. 

'^  Journals  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Smith,  edited  by  William  Willis  of  Portland, 
Me.,  page  243  note. 

^  Essex  Deeds,  book  144,  leaf  137;  book  153,  leaf  182;  and  book  164,  leaf 
122, 


MEMBERS  OE  COXGA'ESS  469 

He  was  admitted,  with  his  wife  Sarah,  September  23,  1788, 
to  membership  in  the  First  Religious  Society  of  Newbury- 
port  by  letter  from  the  Congregational  church  in  Portland  ; 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  in  1791,  1792, 
1793  and  1794,  and  afterwards  representative  to  congress 
for  the  session  beginning  December  7,  1795.  Soon  after  his 
arrival  in  Philadelphia  he  sent  the  following  interesting  letter 
to  his  daughter  in  Newburyport  : — 

Philadelphia,  Dec.  26,  1795. 

Dear  Harriet  :  In  compliance  with  my  promise,  1  now  sit  down  to 
write,  and  though  I  have  nothing  material  to  communicate,  I  am  influ- 
enced by  the  pleasure  it  gives  me,  at  this  distance,  of  conversing  with 
my  children  in  the  only  way  which  I  can.  Last  Thursday  I  had  the 
honor  of  dining  with  the  President,  in  company  with  the  Vice  President, 
the  Senators  and  Delegates  of  Massachusetts,  and  some  other  members 
of  Congress,  about  20  in  all.  In  the  middle  of  the  table  was  placed  a 
piece  of  table  furniture  about  six  feet  long  and  two  feet  wide,  roimded 
at  the  ends.  It  was  either  of  wood  gilded,  or  polished  metal,  raised  only 
about  an  inch,  with  a  silver  rim  round  it  like  that  round  a  teaboard  ;  in 
the  centre  was  a  pedestal  of  plaster  of  Paris,  with  images  upon  it,  and 
on  each  end  figures,  male  and  female,  of  the  same.  It  was  very  elegant 
and  used  for  ornament  only.  The  dishes  were  placed  all  around,  and 
there  was  an  elegant  variety  of  roast  beef,  veal,  turkeys,  ducks,  fowl, 
hams,  &c.;  puddings,  jellies,  oranges,  apples,  nuts,  almonds,  figs,  raisins, 
and  a  variety  of  wines  and  punch.  We  took  our  leave  at  six,  more  than 
an  hour  after  the  candles  were  introduced.  No  lady  but  Mrs.  Washing- 
ton dined  with  us.  We  were  waited  on  by  four  or  five  men  servants 
dressed  in  livery. 

Perhaps  you  have  a  curiosity  to  have  a  description  of  Congress  Hall  ; 
it  is  a  large,  elegant  brick  building,  the  north  end  on  Chestnut  street. 
The  Representatives'  room  is  on  the  lower  floor.  The  Speaker  sits  in  a 
large  armchair,  with  a  table  before  him  like  a  toilette,  covered  with  green 
cloth,  fringed.  The  Speaker's  seat  is  elevated  about  2  feet  and  is  on  the 
west  side  of  the  hall.  The  members"  seats  are  3  rows  of  desks,  rising 
one  above  another,  in  the  form  of  a  semi-circle,  opposite  the  Speaker; 
these  are  writing  desks,  with  large  armed  chairs  with  leather  bottoms. 
There  is  a  lock  and  key  to  each  desk  and  places  on  the  desks  for  ink, 
pens,  sand,  and  a  plentiful  supply  of  paper.  There  are  two  fireplaces  on 
each  side  of  the  hall,  with  stoves. 


4  7  o  HIS  TOR  \ '  OF  NE IV B  UR  ]  TOR  T 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  room  outside  the  semi-circle,  or,  as  we  speak, 
"  without  the  bar,"'  to  which  we  introduce  strangers  to  hear  the  debates, 
and  where  considerable  numbers  are  always  in  attendance,  as  well  as  in 
the  gallery,  which  is  at  the  north  end.  At  the  south  end,  without  the 
bar,  there  is  an  area  or  half  circle,  with  three  large  windows  looking  into 
a  large  square  or  walk,  the  only  mall  in  the  city,  and  two  doors  from  the 
hall  open  into  it.  There  are  holes  for  the  Southern  and  Eastern  mails, 
into  which  we  deposit  our  letters  to  be  carried  to  the  Post  Office  by  the 
doorkeeper. 

The  Senate  chamber  is  over  the  south  end  of  the  hall  ;  the  Vice  Pres- 
ident's chair  is  in  an  area  (like  the  altar  in  a  church)  at  the  south  end.  The 
Senators'  seats,  two  rows  of  desks  and  chairs,  in  a  semi-circle,  but  not 
raised  from  the  floor.  The  floors  of  both  halls  are  covered  with  woolen 
carpets.  The  lower  room  is  elegant,  but  the  chamber  much  more  so. 
You  ascend  the  stairs  leading  to  the  chamber  at  the  north  end  and  pass 
through  an  entry  having  committee  rooms  on  each  side ;  in  that  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Senate  chamber  is  a  full  length  picture  of  the  King  of 
France,  and  in  the  opposite  room  is  one  of  the  Queen  ;  the  frames  are 
elegantly  carved  and  gilt.  They  are  superbly  dressed,  with  the  insignia 
of  royalty;  hers,  I  think,  is  the  finest  picture  I  ever  saw.  She  is  tall 
and  a  fine  form  ;  her  eyes  are  blue,  and  her  countenance  expressive  ;  she 
approaches  near  to  a  beauty.  Alas  !  how  little  did  they  dream  of  the 
dreadful  catastrophe  awaiting  them  when  they  sat  for  these  pictures. 
They  were  presented  by  the  King. 

There  is  a  building  on  the  east  side  of  the  hall  on  Chestnut  street  for 
offices,  connecting  the  hall  with  Pennsylvania  state  house,  in  which  their 
general  court  is  now  sitting ;  this  is  as  large  a  building  as  Congress  Hall, 
and  these  buildings  form  the  north  side  of  the  square  or  mall. 

But  I  suppose  you  are  tired  with  my  description.  In  my  present  want 
of  a  social  domestic  circle,  the  pleasure  of  it  would  in  some  measure  be 
supplied  by  letters  from  my  children  and  friends,  and  I  doubt  not  you 
will  consider  this  a  motive  for  writing.  You  will  give  my  sincere  regards 
to  Maj.  Hooper,  and  tell  him  that  by  employing  a  leisure  hour  in  writing 
to  me  he  would  give  me  great  pleasure. 

I  am  your  affectionate  parent, 

Theoph  Bradbury. 

Mrs.  Hooper.' 


'  The  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  vohime  \'III,  pages 
226  and  227.  Harriet  Bradbury,  daughter  of  Theophilus  Bradbury,  married 
Thomas  Woodbridge  Hooper  September  17,  1792.  She  died  November  26,  1798, 
aged  twenty-six. 


MEMBERS  OF  COXGRESS 


471 


Mr.  Bradbury  was  elected  representative  to  congress  for  a 
second  term,  but  resigned  his  seat  in  the  summer  of  1797, 
and  was  appointed  one  of  the  justices  of  the  supreme  court 
of  Massachusetts.'  In  1803,  he  was  unable,  owing  to  physi- 
cal infirmities,  to  attend  to  the  duties  of  his  high  office,  and 
a  committee  appointed  by  the  General  Court  reported,  June 
21,  1803,  the  following  address  to  the  governor  : — 

May  it  Please  Your  Excellency  : — 

The  two  Houses  of  the  Legislature  having  taken  into  consideration 
the  present  situation  of  the  Hon.  Theophilus  Bradbury,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
Justices  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  this  Commonwealth,  upon  due 
enquiry  find  that  by  a  stroke  of  Palsy,  on  the  thirteenth  day  of  Febru- 
ary A.  D.  1802,  the  said  Judge  Bradbury  has  been  rendered  unable  to 
perform  any  of  the  duties  of  his  office  since  that  time ;  that  from  the 
nature  of  the  attack  there  is  no  reasonable  ground  to  hope  that  he  will 
ever  be  restored  to  such  health  as  will  enable  him  to  perform  the  duties 
of  his  office,  and  therefore  that  his  longer  continuance  therein  is  likely 
to  embarrass  the  Judiciary  of  the  Commonwealth. 

The  two  Houses,  while  they  humbly  acquiesce  in  the  dispensations  of 
the  All-wise  Governor  of  the  World,  deeply  regret  that  the  Common- 
wealth, by  this  visitation  of  Heaven,  has  been  deprived  of  the  talents 
and  services  of  a  learned,  independent,  and  upright  Judge.        .     . 

This  report  was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  Judge  Bradbury 
was  retired  to  private  life.  He  died  in  Newburyport  Septem- 
ber 6,  1803,  aged  si.xty-four.^ 

The  house  owned  and  occupied  by  Judge  Bradbury  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  sold  by  his  widow  and  children,  May 
15,  181 1,  to  Edward  Little  of  Newburyport,  and  by  him  con- 
veyed, the  same  day,  to  Josiah  Little  of  Newbury.^  April  29, 
1 8 14,  Robert  Jenkins  bought  the  house,^  and  sold  it,  June 
21,  1847,  to  Hannah  Kenny  Johnson. 5     Samuel  O.  Johnson, 

^  Hon.  Bailey  Bartlett  of   Haverhill  elected    to    fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
resignation  of  Mr.  Bradbury,  took  his  seat  in  congress  November  27,  1797. 
'Newburyport  Herald,  September  9,  1803. 
■'  Esse.\  Deeds,  book  193,  leaves  171  and  172. 
■*  Essex  Deeds,  book  204,  leaf  196. 
'  Essex  Deeds,  book  384,  leaf  233. 


MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS 


473 


Harrison  G.  Johnson  and  Daniel  Johnson,  sons  of  Hannah 
K.  Johnson,  inherited  the  proj^erty,  and  sold  it,  January  6, 
1876,  to  Mary  Chase  Toppan,  who  conveyed  it,  the  same  day, 
to  the  wife  and  minor  children  of  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Spalding.' 

Jeremiah  Nelson,  son  of  Solomon  and  Elizabeth  (Mi.i^hill) 
Nelson,  was  elected  representative  to  congress  from  the 
Fourth  Middle  district  of  Essex  county,  Massachusetts,  in 
1805.  He  was  born  September  18,  1768,  in  that  part  of 
Rowley  which  was  afterward  set  off  and  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  Georgetown,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  college  in 
1 790,  read  law  in  Hallowell,  Maine,  for  two  or  three  years, 
when  he  decided  to  remove  to  Newburyport  and  engage  in 
mercantile  pursuits.  In  1793,  he  had  a  dry-goods  store  on 
State  street,  and  afterwards  became  interested  in  the  West 
India  trade,  becoming  ultimately  a  prominent  marine  and  fire 
insurance  underwriter. 

He  lived  for  eight  or  ten  years  in  a  house  on  the  south- 
easterly corner  of  Green  and  Merrimack  streets,  with  the 
family  of  Mr.  John  Balch,  and  afterward  with  the  same  family 
in  a  house  on  Merrimack  street,  in  Newbury,  near  the  foot  of 
Moody's  lane,  so  called,  now  Woodland  street,  Newburyport. 

In  1803  and  1804,  he  was  elected  representative  to  the 
General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  in  December,  1805,  took 
his  seat  in  the  ninth  congress  of  the  United  States,  then  in 
session  in  Washington,  D.  C.  His  first  term  as  representative 
expired  March  3,  1807. 

He  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen  in  Newbury- 
port at  the  time  of  the  great  lire,  in  1 8 1 1 ,  and  was  again 
elected  representative  to  congress  in  181  5,  and  re-elected  in 
1817,  1 8 19,  1 82 1  and  1823,  holding  his  seat  from  the  fourth 
of  December,  1815,  to  the  third  of  March,  1825.  Among 
the  distinguished  men  who  represented  Massachusetts  in  the 
capitol  at  Washington,  at  that  date,  was  Daniel  Webster,  who 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  946,  leaves   117  and  iiS. 


474 


HISTORY  OF  NEWBUKYPORT 


was  a  member  of  congress,  from  the  city  of  Boston,  for  the 
session  beginning  December  i,  1823. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Institution  for 
Savings  in  Newburyport  and  Vicinity  in  1827,  and  president 
of  the  Newburyport  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  1829. 
He  married,  April  11,  1831,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and 
Eunice  (Bartlett)  Balch,  and  leased  the  three-story  brick 
dwelling  house  on  the  northeasterly  corner  of  Green  and 
Harris  streets,  where  he  lived  until  his  death.  He  was 
elected  representative  to  the  twenty-second  congress,  and  took 
his  seat  at  the  second  session  in  December,  1832.  In  a  letter 
to  his  wife,  written  soon  after  his  arrival  in  Washington,  he 
describes  his  first  experience  in  traveling  by  rail,  from  New- 
castle to  Frenchtown,  then  a  new  method  of  transportation 
in  the  United  States,  and,  in  February,  1833,  he  wrote  that 
he  had  listened  to  the  debate  in  the  senate  between  Calhoun 
and  Webster  in  regard  to  the  enforcement  of  the  revenue  laws 
in  South  Carolina.  His  term  of  service  as  representative 
expired  March  2,  1833.  After  that  date  he  devoted  his  time 
and  attention  to  preparing  and  presenting  to  the  government 
at  Washington  the  claims  of  ship-owners  and  merchants  whose 
vessels  had  been  captured  and  confiscated  by  French  priva- 
teers, during  the  war  between  France  and  England,  in  1 798. 
He  died  in  Newburyport  October  2,  1838,  and  was  buried  in 
Oak  Hill  cemetery,  leaving  a  widow,  two  daughters  and  two 
sons.' 

Mr.  Nelson  was  seven  years  old  when  the  Revolutionary 
war  began.  When  he  died  the  government  of  the  United 
States  had  been   established  for  more   than  fifty  years,  and 

'  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Eunice  (Bartlett)  Balch,  born  April  17,  1800, 
married  Jeremiah  Nelson  April  11,  1831,  died  February  i,  1882. 

The  following-named  children  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  (Balch)  Nelson  were  born 
in  Newburyport:  — 

Mary  Balch  Nelson,  born  May  29,  1832;    died  June  27,  1887. 

Elizabeth  Mighill  Nelson,       "      P^ebruary  8,  1834;    died  June  14,  1851. 
Jeremiah  Nelson,  "     January  12,    1 836. 

John  B.   Nelson,  "     Januarj'  3,  1839. 


HON.     lEKKMlAU    NELSON. 


476  ffIS  TOR  y  OF  NE IV  B  UR  YPOR  T 

now,  at  the  beginning  of  the  twentieth  century,  his  two  sons, 
Jeremiah  and  John  B.  Nelson,  are  still  living  in  Newburyport. 

His  portrait,  painted  by  Thomas  B.  Lawson,  reproduced 
in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  preceding  page,  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  the  Old  Newbury  Historical  Society. 

In  1839,  his  widow  purchased  a  dwelling  house  on  the 
corner  of  High  and  Fruit  streets,  which  she  owned  and 
occupied  until  her  death,  February  i,  1882.' 

Edward  St.  Loe  Livermore,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane 
(Browne)  Livermore,  was  elected  representative  to  congress 
from  the  Fourth  Middle  district  in  1807.  He  was  born  in 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  April  5,  1762,  and  was  reading  law  in  the 
office  of  Theophilus  Parsons,  in  Newburyport,  when  he  was 
eighteen  years  of  age.  In  1783,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  opened  a  law  office  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  he  married 
Mehitable,  daughter  of  Robert  Harris,  and  lived  for  ten 
or  fifteen  years.  Edward  St.  Loe  and  Mehitable  (Harris) 
LiverniQre  had  five  children  born  in  that  town. 

In  1797,  Mr.  Livermore  was  appointed  judge  of  the  supe- 
rior court  of  the  state  of  New  Hampshire,  but  resigned  in 
1798  to  accept  an  office  in  the  custom  house  at  Portsmouth. 

May  2,  1799,  he  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Sarah 
Creese,  daughter  of  William  Stackpole  of  Boston.  Seven 
children  were  born  to  Edward  St.  Loe  and  Sarah  Creese 
(Stackpole)  Livermore  at  the  following-named  dates  : — 

Edward  St.  Loe,     bom  in  Portsmouth  Feb.  12,  1800. 

Elizabeth  Brown,       "  "  Boston  January  2,  1804. 

William  Stackpole,    "  "       "         June  24,1805. 

George  Williamson,  "  ''   Newburj'port  Jan.  17,  1807. 

Grace  Ann,  "  "  •'  June  i,  1809. 

Arthur  Brown,  "  "   Boston  June  11,  181 1. 

Ann  Grace,  "  "       "         Dec.  24,  1812. 

In  1803,  Mr.  Livermore  probably  removed  to  Boston,  and 
two  or  three  years  later  came  to  Newburyport,  and  was  elect- 

'  Historj'  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  pages  236  and  237  note. 


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477 


ed  representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  sessions 
beginning  May  29,  1805,  and  May  28,  1806.  In  December, 
1805.  he  purchased  a  dwelling  house  and  land  on  the  north- 
westerly corner  of  Brown  and  High  streets,  in  Newbury,  now 
Newburyport,  which  he  owned  and  occupied  for  six  years.' 

October  26,  1807,  he  took  his  seat  as  representative  from 
the  Fourth  Middle  district  of  Essex  county,  Massachusetts, 
to  the  tenth  congress  for  the  term  ending  March  3,  1809. 
He  was  re-elected,  and  served  from  May  22,  1809,  to  March 
3,  181 1.  In  the  month  of  April  following  he  sold  his  house 
and  land  in  Newbury,  and  removed  to  Boston. 

Three  or  four  years  later  he  went  with  his  family  to  Zanes- 
ville,  Ohio,  intending  to  practice  law  there,  but  finding  the 
conditions  unfavorable,  he  returned  to  Massachusetts  and 
purchased  a  farm,  near  the  junction  of  the  Concord  and 
Merrimack  rivers,  in  Tewksbury,  now  Lowell,  where  he  died 
September  15,  1832. 

Harriet  Livermore,  daughter  of  Edward  St.  Loe  and 
Mehitable  (Harris)  Livermore,  born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  April 
14,  1788,  came  to  Newburyport  with  her  father,  step-mother, 
and  other  members  of  the  family  in  1805.  She  attended 
school  at  the  Female  Seminary  in  Byfield,  and  afterwards  at 
a  priv^ate  academy  in  the  town  of  Atkinson,  N.  H.  In  1S07, 
she  accompanied  her  father  to  Washington,  and  attended 
many  fashionable  balls  and  dinner  parties  while  congress  was 
in  session.  When  Mr.  Livermore  sold  his  house  in  Newbury, 
now  Newburyport,  his  daughter  Harriet  went  to  East  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  opened  a  private  school  there,  and  was  afterwards 
an  assistant  teacher  in  the  district  school.  "  The  devout 
manner  in  which  she  taught  the  pupils  to  repeat  the  Lord's 
prayer  and  the  one  hundred  and  nineteenth  psalm  was  never 
forgotten  by  them." 

In  1825,  she  abandoned  teaching,  and,  assuming  the  name 
of  "  The  Pilgrim  Stranger,"   went  from  town  to  town   speak 

1  See  chapter  XIX,  page  6i. 


4^8  !fl^  TOR  y  OF  NE  WB I  'K  1  'FOR  T 

ing  in  schoolhouses,  churches,  or  in  the  open  air,  as  oppor- 
tunity offered,  on  the  second  coming  of  the  Messiah  and  the 
fulfilment  of  the  prophecies  of  St.  John. 

Sunday  morning,  January  8,  1827,  she  preached  to  a  large 
audience  in  the  hall  of  the  house  of  representatives  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  from  the  text,  "  He  that  ruleth  over  men 
must  be  just,  ruling  in  the  fear  of  God.  And  he  shall  be  as 
the  light  of  the  morning  when  the  sun  riseth,  even  a  morning 
without  clouds  :  as  the  tender  grass  springing  out  of  the  earth 
by  clear  shining  after  rain."'  John  Quincy  Adams,  president 
of  the  United  States,  Hon.  James  Barbour,  secretary  of  war,  and 
many  distinguished  members  of  congress  listened  attentively 
to  the  sermon,  which  occupied  more  than  an  hour  in  the 
delivery.  In  the  month  of  September  following  she  spoke 
earnestly  and  eloquently  to  an  immense  congregation  assem- 
bled in  Tammany  hall.  New  York  City.-  She  believed  that 
she  was  to  be  one  of  the  two  witnesses  who  were  to  be  slain 
in  the  Holy  City,  lie  unburied  in  the  streets  three  days  and  a 
half,  and  then  be  made  alive  again  and  taken  up,  in  a  cloud, 
to  heaven.  She  visited  Egypt,  Syria  and  Palestine,  spending 
nearly  sixteen  years  of  her  life  in  that  region.  Returning  to 
the  United  States  in  1862,  from  her  last  visit  to  Jerusalem, 
she  found  that  property  left  for  her  in  trust  had  been  lost  by 
bad  investments.  For  several  years  after  that  date  she  lived 
in  the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia,  dependent  on  friends  and  rela- 
tives for  support.  She  died  in  the  Blockley  almshouse  in 
West  Philadelphia,  March  30,  1868,  and  was  buried  in  a  lot 
owned  by  her  friend,  Mrs.  Margaret  F.  Worrell,  in  the 
Uunkers'  cemetery  at  Germantown.^ 

In  "  Snow  Bound  "  one  of  the  visitors  who  came  occasion- 
ally to  the  old  Whittier  homestead  is  described  as  follows  : — 

'  II  Samuel,  chapter  XXIII,  verses  3  and  4.  Newlnirypoit  Herald,  lamiary  19 
and  23,  1827. 

-  Newburyport  Herald,  September  21,  1827. 

3  The  Essex  Anti(iuarian,  volume  V  (1901),  pages  7-9;  and  (Meanings  from 
Merrimack  Valley  by  Rebecca  I.  Davis  (Sheaf  number  one),  pages  11-39. 


MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS 

Another  guest  that  winter  night 
Flashed  back  from  lustrous  eyes  the  light. 
Unmarked  by  time,  and  yet  not  young, 
The  honeyed  music  of  her  tongue 
And  words  of  meekness  scarcely  told 
A  nature  passionate  and  bold, 
Strong,  self-concentred,  spurning  guide. 
Its  milder  features  dwarfed  beside 
Her  unbent  will's  majestic  pride. 
She  sat  among  us,  at  the  best, 
A  not  unfeared,  half  welcome  guest. 
Rebuking  with  her  cultured  phrase 
Our  homeliness  of  words  and  ways. 
A  certain  pard-like,  treacherous  grace 
Swayed  the  lithe  limbs  and  dropped  the  lash, 
Lent  the  white  teeth  their  dazzling  flash  ; 
And  under  low  brows,  black  with  night, 
Rayed  out  at  times  a  dangerous  light  : 
The  sharp  heat-lightnings  of  her  face 
Presaging  ill  to  him  whom  Fate 
Condemned  to  share  her  love  or  hate. 
A  woman  tropical,  intense 
In  thought  and  act,  in  soul  and  sense. 
She  blended  in  a  like  degree 
The  vixen  and  the  devotee. 
Revealing  with  each  freak  or  feint 
The  temper  of  Petruchio's  Kate, 
The  raptures  of  Sienna's  saint. 
Her  tapering  hand  and  rounded  wrist 
Had  facile  power  to  form  a  fist ; 
The  warm,  dark  languish  of  her  eyes 
Was  never  safe  from  wrath's  surprise. 
Brows  saintly  calm  and  lips  devout 
Knew  every  change  of  scowl  and  pout ; 
And  the  sweet  voice  had  notes  more  high 
And  shrill  for  social  battle-cry. 

Since  then  what  old  cathedral  town 

Has  missed  her  pilgrim  staff  and  gown, 

What  convent  gate  has  held  its  lock 

Against  the  challenge  of  her  knock  ! 

Through  Smyrna's  plague-hushed  thoroughfares. 

Up  sea-set  Malta's  rocky  stairs, 


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4  8o  fft^  TOR  V  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOR  7 

Gray  olive  slopes  of  hills  that  hem 

Thy  tombs  and  shrines,  Jerusalem, 
Or  startling  on  her  desert  throne 
The  crazy  Queen  of  Lebanon 
With  claims  fantastic  as  her  own, 
Her  tireless  feet  have  held  their  way ; 
And  still,  unrestful,  bowed  and  gray. 
She  watches  under  Eastern  skies. 

With  hope  each  day  renewed  and  fresh, 

The  Lord's  quick  coming  in  the  flesh. 
Whereof  she  dreams  and  prophecies  ! 

In  the  preface  to  this  poem,  published  in  his  complete 
poetical  works,  Whittier  wrote  as  follows  : — 

The  "  not  unfeared,  half  welcome  guest,"  was  Harriet  Livermore, 
daughter  of  Judge  Livermore,  of  New  Hampshire,  a  young  woman  of 
fine  natural  ability,  enthusiastic,  eccentric,  with  slight  control  over  her 
violent  temper,  which  sometimes  made  her  religious  profession  doubtful. 
She  was  equally  ready  to  exhort  in  .school-house  prayer-meetings  and 
dance  in  a  Washington  ball-room,  while  her  father  was  a  member  of 
congress.  She  early  embraced  the  doctrine  of  the  Second  Advent,  and 
felt  it  her  duty  to  proclaim  the  Lord's  speedy  coming.  With  this  mes- 
sage she  crossed  the  Atlantic  and  spent  the  greater  part  of  a  long  life  in 
travelling  over  Europe  and  Asia.  She  lived  some  time  with  Lady  Hes- 
ter Stanhope,  a  woman  as  fantastic  and  mentally  strained  as  herself,  on 
the  slope  of  Mt.  Lebanon,  but  finally  quarrelled  with  her  in  regard  to 
two  white  horses  with  red  marks  on  their  backs,  which  suggested  the 
idea  of  saddles,  on  which  her  titled  hostess  expected  to  ride  into  Jeru- 
salem with  the  Lord.  A  friend  of  mine  found  her,  when  quite  an  old 
woman,  wandering  in  Syria  with  a  tribe  of  Arabs,  who,  with  the  Oriental 
notion  that  madness  is  inspiration,  accepted  her  as  their  prophetess  and 
leader.  At  the  time  referred  to  in  Snow  Bou/it^  she  was  boarding  at  the 
Rock's  Village,  about  two  miles  from  us. 

Daniel  Appleton  White,  born  in  that  part  of  Methuen 
now  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Lawrence,  was  a  lawyer 
in  Newburyport  in  1804.  November  7,  18 14,  he  was  elected 
representative  to  congress,  but  did  not  take  his  seat,  having 
accepted,  in  May,  181 5,  the  office  of  judge  of  probate  for  Essex- 
county.     He  removed  to  Salem  in  181 7,  where  he  died  in  1 86 1 .' 

1  See  chapter  XXIII,  page  271. 


MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS  ^8i 

Caleb  Gushing  was  elected  representative  from  the  Third 
Massachusetts  congressional  district  in  November,  1834.  The 
news  of  his  election  was  received  by  the  inhabitants  of  New- 
buryport  with  unusual  demonstrations  of  joy,  which  were 
continued  through  the  night  and  the  early  morning  hours  of 
the  next  day. 

Our  town  was  in  an  uproar  all  night,  and  Mr.  Gushing,  after  having 
been  apprised  of  his  election,  was  invited  to  go  down  to  the  Phenix 
Hall,  where  the  Whigs  were  assembled  to  receive  him.  He  addressed 
them  in  a  very  eloquent  manner,  and  then  was  hauled  home  in  one  of 
Shaw's  carriages  by  a  long  procession  of  men  and  boys,  who  lodged 
him  safely  in  his  home  with  great  shouting.  Mr.  Gushing,  I  understand, 
was  quite  unwilling  to  be  conveyed  home  in  this  manner,  but  the  excite- 
ment was  so  great  he  was  in  a  manner  compelled  to  do  so.  In  fact,  we 
were  all,  as  a  town,  compelled  to  hear  the  air  rent  with  shouting  most  of 
the  night  from  the  Whigs,  who  rode  about  in  their  carriages,  from  street 
to  street,  making  the  greatest  uproar  you  ever  heard.  We  were  all  so 
rejoiced  to  give  Mr.  Gushing  so  large  a  vote  that  we  considered  it  a  small 
privation  to  go  without  sleep  for  one  night,  and  the  day  after  to  hear 
a  salute  of  one  hundred  cannon,  accompanied  with  the  ringing  of  bells. 
I  doubt  not  we  shall  now  be  handsomely  and  respectably  represented.' 

Mr.  Gushing  at  that  date  was  a  young  man  of  great  ability, 
with  considerable  political  experience,  having  previously  made 
several  unsuccessful  attempts  to  secure  an  election  to  the 
national  house  of  representatives,  and  when  victory  was 
assured  his  friends  were  naturally  highly  elated. 

He  was  the  son  of  John  Newmarch  and  Lydia  (Dow) 
Gushing,  and  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  January  17,  1800. 
His  parents  removed  to  Newburyport  when  he  was  only  two 
years  of  age.  Several  years  later,  he  attended  a  private 
school  kept  by  Michael  Walsh,  a  famous  teacher  of  that  day, 
and  entered  Harvard  college  in  181 3,  graduating  in  18 17. 
Gontinuing  his  studies  at  the  Gambridge  law  school,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1821,  and  opened  an  ofifice  for  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Newburyport. 

'  Letter  from  Mrs.  Mary  (Balch)  rs'elson,  tlated  N'e\vl)ur\port,  November  15, 
1854,  to  her  husbaml,  Hon.  Jeremiah  Nelson,  in  Washinj^ton,  D.  C. 


482  HIS  TOR  V  OF  NE IV B  UR  YPOR  T 

November  23,  1824,  he  married  Caroline  Elizabeth  Wilde, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Wilde,  one  of  the  justices  of  the 
supreme  judicial  court  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  elected 
representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  session  beginning 
May  25,  1825,  and  afterward  for  the  session  beginning  May 
28,  1828. 

In  1829,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  he  visited  France,  Spain 
and  other  European  countries.  His  wife  died  August  28, 
1832,  leaving  no  children,  and  was  buried  in  the  New  Hill 
burying  ground,  Newburyport.  Letters  describing  her  jour- 
ney through  France  and  Spain  were  published  in  two  volumes, 
after  her  death,  by  Ephraim  W.  Allen  &  Co. 

Mr.  Cushing  did  not  marry  again,  but  devoted  his  time  and 
attention  to  political  affairs.  In  1833  and  1834,  he  was  a 
representative  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  from 
Newburyport,  and  December  7,  1835,  took  his  seat  in  the 
house  of  representatives  at  Washington,  D.  C,  He  was  three 
times  re-elected,  and  at  the  close  of  his  fourth  term,  in  1843, 
was  appointed  commissioner  to  China,  a  position  he  held  for 
two  years. 

At  the  session  of  the  General  Court  beginning  January  6, 
1847,  Mr.  Cushing  represented  Newburyport,  but  resigned  on 
the  first  day  of  February  to  take  command  of  a  regiment 
organized  for  service  in  the  Mexican  war. 

In  1849,  he  bought  a  three-story  dwelling  house  on  High 
street,  in  Newbury,  and  in  1851  represented  the  inhabitants 
of  that  town  in  the  legislature.  At  his  suggestion,  and  under 
his  leadership,  an  act  annexing  a  part  of  the  town  of  Newbury 
to  Newburyport  was  passed  April  17,  1851.  On  the  twenty- 
fourth  of  June  following,  he  was  inaugurated  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Newburyport.  In  May,  1852,  he  accepted  the  office 
of  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  judicial  court  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  in  March,  1853,  was  appointed  attorney-general 
of  the  United  States.  After  four  years  residence  in  Wash- 
ington, he  returned  to  Newburyport,  and  was  elected,  in  1857, 
representative  to  the  General  Court  for  the  session  beginning 


HON.    CALKB   CUSHhNG. 


484  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  NE  WB  UK  YPOK  T 

January  6,  1858,  and  re-elected  the  next  year,  for  the  session 
beginning  January  5,  1859. 

He  was  president  of  the  National  Democratic  convention 
held  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  in  April,  i860,  and  presided  at  the 
adjourned  meeting  held  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  the  month  of 
July  following.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  fierce  political 
contest  that  followed,  and  earnestly  advocated  the  election  of 
John  C.  Breckenridge  to  the  ofifice  of  president  of  the  United 
States. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war  he  offered  to  enlist  for 
three  years'  service  in  a  Massachusetts  regiment,  but  this 
offer  was  rejected  by  Governor  Andrew  for  political  reasons. 
In  1862  and  1863,  he  was  again  elected  representative  to  the 
General  Court  from  Nevvburyport,  and  actively  engaged  in 
legislative  work.  His  knowledge  of  international  law  made 
him  a  useful  adviser  of  the  several  departments  of  the  govern- 
ment at  Washington,  and  he  was  appointed  to  many  positions 
of  honor  and  trust  soon  after  the  close  of  the  war. 

As  one  of  the  counsel  appointed  to  present  the  claims  of 
the  United  States  against  Great  Britain,  before  the  tribunal 
of  arbitration  assembled  at  Geneva  in  1872,  he  astonished 
and  delighted  all  who  were  associated  with  him,  and  on  his 
return  to  the  United  States  published  a  volume  entitled, 
"  The  Treaty  of  Washington,  its  Negotiation,  Execution,  and 
the  Discussions  Relating  Thereto,"  in  which  he  severely 
criticised  the  conduct  of  the  British  arbitrator,  Sir  Alexander 
Cockburn,  and  the  reasons  assigned  by  him  for  dissenting 
from  the  decision  of  the  tribunal. 

In  1874,  he  was  nominated  by  President  Grant  to  fill  the 
vacancy  occasioned  by  the  death  of  the  chief  justice  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  but  objections  were 
urged  against  his  confirmation  on  political  grounds,  and  at  his 
request  the  nomination  was  withdrawn,  and  he  was  appointed 
minister  to  Spain.  For  three  years  he  attended  to  the  duties 
of  his  office  at  the  court  of  Madrid,  resigning  in  February, 
1877,    and   returning    to    Nevvburyport   a   few    months  later, 


MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS  485 

Although  nearly  four-score  years  of  age,  he  was  strong  and 
vigorous  until  a  few  days  previous  to  his  death,  which 
occurred  January  2,  i.S/g.' 

Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone  of  Newburyport  was  elected  repre- 
sentative to  the  forty-seventh  congress,  and  took  his  seat  at 
the  session  beginning  December  5,  1881.  He  was  re-elected 
in  1882  and  1884,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  forty- 
ninth  congress,  March  3,  1887.  The  story  of  his  life,  briefly 
told,  is  as  follows. 

Eben  Francis  Stone,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Fanny  (Cool- 
idge)  Stone,  was  born  in  Newburyport  August  3,  1822.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1843,  and  attended  the  Har- 
vard law  school  for  the  next  two  or  three  years.  In  1846,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  soon  after  opened  a  law  office  in 
Newburyport.  He  was  president  of  the  common  council 
when  the  first  city  government  of  Newburyport  was  organ- 
ized, in  June,  185  i,  and  was  elected  senator  from  the  Fourth 
Essex  district,  in  the  state  of  Massachusetts,  for  the  years 
1857,  1858  and  1861. 

In  November,  1862,  he  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  Forty- 
Eighth  regiment  of  the  Massachusetts  volunteer  militia,  and 
was  ordered  to  join  the  Nineteenth  army  corps,  under  Gen- 
eral IJanks,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  river.  The  regi- 
ment under  his  command  participated  in  the  engagements 
that  resulted  in  the  capture  of  Port  Hudson  in  June,  1863. 

When  his  term  of  service  expired,  Colonel  Stone  returned 
to  Newburyport,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law.  In  1867, 
1877,  1878  and  1880,  he  represented  Newburyport  in  the 
state  legislature.  In  1881,  he  took  his  seat  in  the  house  of 
representatives  at  Washington,  as  above  stated.  At  the 
close  of  his  congressional  career  he  did  not  feel  inclined  to 
take  up  the  ordinary  work  of  an  attorney-at-law,  but  devoted 
his  time  to  the  trial  of  a  few  important  cases  and  to  the  study 

'  For  further  details  relating;  to  ttie  life  and  attainments  of  Hon.  Caleb  dishing, 
see   "  Ould  Newbury: "  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  664-671. 


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HON.    EBEN    F,    STONE. 


MEMBERS  OE  CONGRESS  487 

of  social  and  political  questions  in  which  he  was  particularly 
interested.  His  wife,  Harriet  (Perrin)  Stone,  died  December 
31,  1889.  He  died  January  22,  1895.  Hon.  William  D. 
Northend  of  Salem,  Mass.,  delivered  an  appropriate  memo- 
rial address  on  the  life  and  character  of  Hon.  Eben  F.  Stone, 
at  the  meeting  house  of  the  First  Religious  Society  in 
Newburyport,  April  21,  1895.' 

1  For  further  details,  see  the  above-mentioned  address;  and  "  Ould  Newljury  i" 
Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,   pages  691-699. 


APPENDIX. 


I. 

SENATORS  ELECTED  FROM  NEWBURV,  NEWBURYPORT  AND 
WEST  NEWBURV. 

The  names  of  the  representatives,  elected  to  the  General 
Court  by  the  legal  voters  of  Newburyport,  from  1764  to 
1906,  will  be  found  on  pages  678-685  of  the  first  volume  of 
this  history.  The  list  there  printed  is  believed  to  be  correct, 
except  that  the  representatives  for  the  session  beginning  Jan- 
uary 6,  1892,  should  be  Arthur  C.  Richardson  and  Eben  S. 
Dole,  instead  of  Arthur  C.  Richardson  and  Nathan  N.  With- 
ington. 

The  constitution  of  the  state  of  Massachusetts,  adopted  in 
1780,  provided  for  the  annual  election  of  six  senators  from 
Essex  county.  The  following-named  persons,  residing  in 
Newbury  or  Newburyport,  were  elected,  with  senators  from 
other  towns  in  the  county,  for  the  years  designated. 

Foi  tlie  session  begiiuting  Senators. 

Oct.  25,   17H0,  Jonathan  Greenleaf.' 

May  30,  I  78 1,  Jonathan  Greenleaf. 

•'     29,  1782,  Jonathan  Greenleaf. 

"     28,  1 783,  Nathaniel  Tracy. 

"     26,  1784,  Tri.stram  Dalton.^ 

"     31,  1786,  Tristram  Dalton. 

"     30,  1 787,  Tristram  Dalton. 

"     28,1788,  Tristram  Dalton. 

"     27,1789,  Jonathan  Jackson. 

"     26,  1 790,  Jonathan  Greenleaf. 

"     25,  1791,  Jonathan  Greenleaf  and 

Theophilus  Bradbury. 

'  Jonathan  Greenleaf  and  other  senators  named  in  this  list  resided  in  Newburyport 
unless  otherwise  designated. 

'^  No  senator  for  Newbury  ux  Newburyport  was  elected  for  the  session  beginning 
May  25,  1785. 

491 


492 


APPENDIX 


For  the  session  begintiiiif^ 
May  30, 
"     29, 


Jan, 


28, 
31, 
30. 
29, 
28, 

27, 
26, 


30. 
29, 

28. 
27, 

25- 

31, 

30, 
29, 

27, 
26, 

25, 
31, 
29, 
28, 

27, 
26, 

31. 

30, 

29» 

31. 

3o> 
28, 

27, 
26, 

25. 
4, 


'  No    senators 

beginning  May  27 

2  No   senators 


792, 
793. 
794, 
797, 
79'''. 
799. 
800, 
801, 
802. 
S03, 

804, 
805, 
806, 
So  7, 
808, 
809, 
810, 
811, 
812, 

813, 
814, 
Si  5, 
816, 
817, 
81S, 
Si  9, 
820, 
821, 
822, 
826, 
827, 
828, 
829, 
830, 
831. 
832, 


Senators 
Theophilus  Bradbury. 
Theophilus  Bradbury. 
Theophilus  Bradbury.  ' 
Ebenezer  March,  Newbury. 

Ebenezer  March,  " 

Ebenezer  March,  " 

Ebenezer  March,  " 

Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch  Titcomb  and 

Dudley  A.  Tyng,       Newbury, 
Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch  Titcomb. 
Enoch   Titcomb. 
Enoch   Titcomb. 
Daniel  A.  White. 
Daniel  A.  White. 
Daniel  A.  White. 
Daniel  A.  White. 
Daniel  A.  White. 
Stephen  Hooper,  Newbury. 

Stephen  Hooper,  " 

William  B.  Bannister. 
William  B.  Bannister. 
William  B    Bannister. 
Ebenezer  Moseley. 
Ebenezer  Moseley. 
Edward  S.  Rand.  - 
Caleb  Gushing. 
John  Merrill. 
John  Merrill. 
John  Merrill. 
John  Merrill. 
Ebenezer  Bradbury. 
Ebenezer  Bradbury. 


rom    Newbury    or  Nevvburyport    were  elected    for   the    sessions 
1795,  and  May  25,  1796. 
rom    Newbury    or    Newburyport  were  elected  for    the    sessions 


beginning  May  28,  1823,  May  26,  1824,  and  May  25,  1825. 


APPENDIX  493 

For  the  session  beginning  Senators 

Jan.  2,  1.S33,  William  Nichols. 

'•  I,  1834,  William  Nichols. 

"  7)  1835,  George  Lunt. 

"  6,  1836,  George  Lunt. 

"  4,  1837,  Daniel  Adams,  3d.      Newbury. 

"  3,  1838,  Daniel  Adams,  3d.           " 

"  2,  1839,  Josiah  Little,                      " 

"  I,  1840,  Josiah  Litde,                       " 

"  6,  1841,  Henry  W.  Kinsman.' 

"  4,  1843,  Stephen  Ilsley. 

"  7,  1846,  Dennis  Condry,           Newbury. 

'■  6,  1847,  Dennis  Condry,                  " 

"  5,  1848,  Charles  H.  Balch. 

"  3,  1849,  Charles  H.  Balch. 

"  7,  1852,  Albert  Currier. 

"  5'  1853,  Micajah  Lunt. 

"  4,  1854,  Isaac  H.  Boardman. 

'•  7,  1857,  Eben  F.  Stone.^ 

6,  1858,  Eben  F.  Stone. 

"  2,  1861,  Eben  F.  Stone. 

"  2,1867,  Albert  W.  Stevens. 

"  I,  1868,  Charles  C.  Dame. 

"  6,  1868,  Richard  Plumer. 

"  3/1872,  David  T.  Woodwell. 

"  I,  1873,  David  r.  Woodwell. 

"  5,1876,  Haydn  Brown,  West  Newbury. 

"  3)  1877-  Ha3'dn  Brown,       "             " 

"  7,  1 8S0,  Warren  Currier.? 

^  No  senators  from  Newbury  or  Newburj'port  were  elected  for  the  sessions 
beginning  January  5,  1842,  January  3,  1844,  January  1,  1845,  January  2,  1850, 
January  i,  1851,  January  3,  1855,  and  January  2,  1856. 

■^  July  30,  1857,  Essex  county  was  divided  into  five  senatorial  districts.  The  city 
of  Newburj^port  and  the  towns  of  Amesbury,  Bradford,  Georgetown,  Groveland, 
Newburj',  .Salisbury  and  West  Newbuiy  formed  the  Fourth  Essex  district.  No 
senatf)rs  from  Newbuiy  or  Newburyport  were  elected  for  the  sessions  beginning 
January  5,  1859,  January  4,  i860,  January  i,  1862,  January  7,  1863,  January  6, 
1864,  January  4,  1865,  January  3,  1S66,  January  5,  1870,  Januarj-  4,  1871,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1874,  January  6,  1875,  January  2,  1878,  January  i,  1879,  Januar)' 3,  1883, 
January  7,  1885,  and  January  6,  1886. 

■'  April  27,  1876,  Essex  county  was  divided  into  six  senatorial  districts,  and  the 
city  of  ^ewbur)'pf)rt,  with  the  towns  of  Newbury,  Rowley,  Ipswich,  Salisbury', 
Amesl)ury  and  West  Newjjury  formed  the  Fourth  Essex  district. 


494 


APPENDIX 


For  the  session  beginning  Senators 

Jan.  5,  1 88 1,  Joseph  N.  Rolfe,         Newbury. 

"  4,  1882,  Joseph  N.  Rolfe,  " 

"  2,  1884,  Albert  Currier. 

"  5,  1887,  John  J.  Currier.' 

"  6,  1892,  Edward  P.  Shaw. 

"  6,  1892,  Luther  Dame/  Newbury. 

"  4,  1893,  Edward  P.  Shaw. 

"  4,  1893,  Luther  Dame,^  Newbury. 

"  5,  1898,  Charles  O.  Bailey,3  " 

"  4,  1899,  Charles  O.  Bailey,  " 

"  6,  1904,  Moody  Kimball.3 

"  4,  1905,  Moody  Kimball. 

"  2,  1907,  James  F.  Shaw,4      Manchester. 

"  I,  1908,  James  F.  Shaw,  " 

"  6,  1909,  James  F.  Shaw,  " 

'■  June  29,  1886,  the  senatorial  districts  were  re-arranged.  The  city  of  Haver- 
hill, the  towns  of  Amesbury,  Merrimac  and  Salisbury  and  wards  three,  four,  five 
and  six  of  the  city  of  Newburyport  were  assigned  to  and  included  in  the 
Fourth  Esssex  district,  while  the  city  of  Gloucester,  the  towns  of  Essex,  Hamilton, 
Ipswich,  Manchester,  Newbury,  Rockport,  Rowley,  Topsfield  and  West  Newbury 
and  wards  one  and  two  of  the  city  of  Newburyport  were  taken  to  form  the  Third 
Essex  district.  No  senators  from  Newbury  or  Newburj^port  were  elected  for  the 
years  1888,  1889,  1890  and  1891. 

*  Senator  from  the  Third  Essex  district.  No  senators  from  Newbury  or  New- 
buryport were  elected  in  the  Third  or  Fourth  Essex  districts  for  the  years  1894, 
1895,  1896  and  1897. 

•*  Senator  from  the  Third  Essex  district.  On  and  after  June  6,  1896,  the  city  of 
Haverhill  and  the  towns  of  Amesbury,  Bradford,  Georgetown,  Groveland,  Merri- 
mac, Salisbury  and  West  Newbury  constituted  the  Fourth  Essex  district,  and  the 
cities  of  Gloucester  and  Newburyport,  and  the  towns  of  Essex,  Hamilton,  Ipswich, 
Manchester,  Newbury,  Rockport,  Rowley  and  Wenham  constituted  the  Third 
Essex  district.  No  senators  from  Newbury  or  Newburyport  were  elected  for  the 
years  1900,  1901,  1902,  1903  and  1906. 

''  Mr.  .Shaw,  senator  from  the  Third  Essex  district,  was  born  in  Newburyport, 
but  resided  in  Manchester  at  the  date  of  his  election. 

Since  June  18,  1906,  the  city  of  Haverhill  and  the  towns  of  Amesbury, 
Boxford,  Georgetown,  Groveland,  Merrimac,  Middleton  and  Peabody  have  formed 
the  Fourth  Essex  district,  and  the  cities  of  Gloucester  and  Newburyport  and  the 
towns  of  Essex,  Hamilton,  Ipswich,  Manchester,  Newbury,  Rockport,  Rowley, 
Salisbury,  Topsfield,  Wenham  and  \N'est  Nevvbui")'  the  Third  Essex  district. 


II. 

In  addition  to  the  books  and  pamphlets  described  in  Chap- 
ter XIII,  pages  471  to  500,  of  the  first  volume  of  this 
history,  some  earlier  and  some  later  publications  have  been 
examined  recently  and  the  following  title-pages  carefully 
copied  and  reprinted  for  the  information  of  readers  interested 
in  the  subject  of  bibliography. 

The  Ass  I  or  the  |  Serpent  |  A   comparison   between    the   tribes  of  | 
Issachar  and   Dan    in    their    regard  |  for    Civil    Liberty  |  November  5, 
1 71 2  I  By    Thomas     Bradl^ury  |  London     printed  |  Newburyport  |  Re- 
printed by  Thomas  and  Tinges  in  King  Street  |  MDCCLXXIV.' 

The  Sacrifice  of  the  Wicked  explained  and  distinguished  |  in  two  dis- 
courses I  ******  I  By  Joseph  Dana  A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  the  South  Church 
I  in  Ipswich  |  Newburyport  |  Printed  and  sold  by  John   Mycall    17.S2.' 

The  knowledge  of  the  chief  Constituent  parts  of  the  Chris-  |  tian 
System  needful  as  a  Guide  to  Pastors  and  |  People  in  their  several 
different  Duties.  |  A  |  Sermon  |  Preached  at  the  |  Instalment  |  of  the 
Reverend  |  John  Thompson  |  in  the  pastoral  ofifice  over  the  |  first  church 
of  Christ  1  in  Berwick,  May  7,  1783  |  By  Paul  Cofifin,  A.  M.  |  Pastor 
of  the  Church  in  Buxton.  |  All  Scripture  is  given  by  inspiration  of  God 
and  is  profitable  for  doctrine  for  |  reproof  for  correction,  for  instruction 
in  righteousness,  that  the  man  of  God  |  may  be  perfect,  thoroughly 
furnished  unto  all  good  works.  II  Tim.  Ill,  16:  17.  My  people  are 
destroyed  for  lack  of  knowledge.  Hos.  IV.  6.  |  They  shall  not  hurt,  nor 
destroy  in  all  my  holy  mountain  ;  for  the  earth  shall  |  be  full  of  the 
knowledge  of  the  Lord.  Is.  II.  9.  |  Newburyport  |  Printed  by  John 
Mycall  I  MDCCLXXXIII.^ 

A  Short  I  Introduction  |  to    |    English    |    Grammar    |   with    |    Critical 

'  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

*  Rev.  Paul  Cofiin,  son  of  Col.  [oseph  Coffin  of  Newbury,  was  onlained  pastor 
of  the  first  church  in  township  No.  i,  on  the  Saco  river,  now  Huxton,  Me.,  March 
16,  1763. 

495 


496  APPENDIX 

Notes  I  By  Robert  Lowth,  D.  D.  |  Lord  Bishop  of  Oxford  |  Newbury- 
port  I  Printed  and  sold  by  John  Mycall  |  MDCCLXXXI II.' 

Jerubbael  |  or  |  Tyranny's  Grove  Destroyed  ]  and  the  |  Altar  of  Lib- 
erty Finished  |  A  |  Discourse  |  on  America's  Duty  and  Danger  |  Deliv- 
ered at  the  I  Presbyterian  Church  in  Newburyport  |  December  ii, 
1783  I  on  occasion  of  the  |  Public  Thanksgiving  |  for  |  Peace.  ]  Pub- 
lished by  particular  request  |  By  John  Murray,  A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  said 
Church  I  Newburyport  |  Printed  by  John  Mycall,  MDCCLXXXIV. 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  at  |  Newburyport  |  August  14th  i  7S8  |  on 
a  I  Day  set  apart  |  By  the  |  First  Church  there  |  To  Seek  the  |  Divine 
Direction  and  Blessing  |  in  the  choice  and  settlement  of  a  colleague 
pastor  I  with  the  |  Rev.  Thomas  Cary  |  By  John  Tucker  D.  D.  |  Pastor 
of  the  First  Church  in  |  Newbury  |  Newburyport  |  Printed  and  sold  by 
John  Mycall   i  788 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  |  December  10,  1788  |  at  the  |  Ordination  |  of 
the  I  Rev.  John  Andrews  |  To  the  care  of  the  j  thirst  Church  and  Soci- 
ety I  in  I  Newburj-port  |  as  a  |  Colleague  Pastor  |  with  the  |  Rev.  Thom- 
as Cary  |  By  Timothy  Hilliard,  A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  the  First  Church 
in  I  Cambridge  |  Published  at  the  Desire  of  the  Church  and  Society  | 
Newburyport  |  Printed  by  John  Mycall  MDCCLXXXIX. 

The  Diligent  Servant  Excited  |  A  |  Sermon  |  preached  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  |  Newburyport  |  January  23,  1791  |  The  day  preceding 
the  funeral  |  of  the  |  Rev.  Joseph  Prince  |  who  departed  this  life  on  the 
151'!  of  I  that  month  Eetat  68  |  Published  by  the  request  of  the  Mourn- 
ers I  By  John  Murray  A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  said  church  |  Newburyport  | 
Printed  and  sold  by  John  Mycall  i79i.' 

The  I  Fair  Hibernian  |  [A  Novel  published  in  Dublin    Ireland]  |  Re- 
printed in  Newburyport  |  By  George  Jerry  Osborne  |  Market  Square  | 
MDCCXCIV.' 

The  I  Ready  Reckoner  |  or  the  Trader's  Useful  Assistant  |  *  *  * 
The  Eleventh  Edition  |  Compared  with  the  last  edition  |  By  Nicolas 
Pike,  Esq.  |  Printed  at  |  Newburyport.  1794  |  By  Edmund  M.  Blunt  - 

The  I  New    England    Farrier  |  or  |  A    Compendium   of  Farriery  |  in 
Four  Parts  |  *  *  *  |  By  Paul  Jewett  |  of  Rowley  |  Newburyport  Print- 
ed I  By    William    Barrett  |  at  his   Printing  Office   Merrimack  Street  | 
MDCCXCV.2 

1  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

*  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.;  second  edition,  printed  in  Salem  in  1807  by 
Joshua  Gushing. 


APPENDIX 


497 


A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  at  |  Newburyport  |  December  19,  1794  |  at 
the  I  Ordination  |  of  the  |  Rev.  Daniel  Dana  |  By  Joseph  Dana,  A. 
M.  I  Pastor  of  the  South  Church  in  Ipswich  |  Printed  by  Blunt  and 
March,  Market  Square,  Newburyport  |  MDCCXCV.' 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  February  19,  1795  |  Being  a  Day  |  of  |  Public 
Thanksgiving  |  Throughout  the  |  United  States  of  America  |  By  John 
Andrews  A.  M.  |  Junior  Pastor  of  the   First  Church   in    Newburyport  | 
Printed  at  Newburyport  by  |  Blunt  &  March. 

Catalogue  of  the  Haverhill  Library  printed  in  Newburyport  by  Blunt 
&  March,  1796." 

Eighteen  |  Sermons  |  Preached  by  the  late  |  Rev.  George  Whitefield 
A.  M.  I  *  *  *  *  I  taken  verbatim  in  Short  Hand  and  faithful  |  ly  Tran- 
scribed by  Joseph  Guiney  |  Revised  by  Andrew  Gifford  D.  D.  |  Printed 
at  Newburyport  by  |  Edmund  M.  Blunt  |   1797  - 

The  Bank  of  Faith  |  William  Barrett  publisher  |  Newburyport  |   1797.3 

Doctor  Watts"  Plain  and  Easy  Catechisms  for  Children  |  Edmund  M. 
Blunt,  publisher  |   i797.-t 

January  30,  1798,  Angler  March  announced  the  publication 
of  "  A  Joiu-nal  of  the  Captivity  and  Sufferings  of  John  Fos.s, 
several  years  a  prisoner  at  Algiers,"  and  on  the  twentieth  of 
November  following  advertised  for  sale  "  the  second  edition 
greatly  enlarged  and  corrected."-^  The  first  edition  of  this 
book,  consisting  of  a  thousand  copies,  was  exhausted  in  a  few 
months.  It  probably  did  not  contain  the  "  Algerine  Slaves, 
a  poem  by  a  citizen  of  Newburyport,"  published  in  the  second 
edition.'' 

The  Duties  of  Gospel  Ministers  and  Hearers  |  Represented  in  the 
substance   of  two  |  Discourses  |  delivered    December   2i«l    i  79S  |  Being 

1  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

■•^  These  sermons  were  reprinted  in  1809  by  Thomas  &  Whipple  (see  History  of 
Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  497). 

■*  Advertised  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  in  May,  1797. 

*  Advertised  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  in  July,  1797. 

■'  Histoi-y  of  Newburj'port  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  492. 

"  The  author  of  this  poem  is  unknown.  Possibly  Thomas  Paine,  a  student-at- 
law  with  Theophilus  Parsons  in  1798,  may  have  written  it.  In  1803,  the  name  of 
Thomas  Paine  was  changed  to  Robert  Treat  Paine,  by  order  of  the  General  Court 
of  the  commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 


498 


APPENDIX 


the  next  Sabbath  after  the  Installation  ]  By  Rev.  Samuel  Tomb  |  Pastor  of 
the  2nd  Church  and  Parish  in  Newbury  |  Published  at  the  request  of  many 
hearers  |  *  *  *  |  Printed  at   Newburyport  by  Edmund  M.  Blunt  1799. 

A  I  Discourse  |  on  the  |  Character  and  Death  |  of  |  General  George 
Washington  |  By  Joseph  Dana  |  Pastor  of  the  South  Church  in  Ip- 
swich I  Printed  at  Newburyport  by  Edmund  M.  Blunt,  i8oo.' 

A  I  Discourse  |  on  the  |  Character  and  Virtues  |  of  |  General  George 
Washington  |  Delivered  |  on  the  twenty-second  of  February  1800  |  the 
day  I  of  I  National  Mourning  |  for  his  |  Death  |  By  Daniel  Dana  |  Min- 
ister of  a  church  in  Newburyport  |  Published  at  the  desire  of  the  hear- 
ers I  to  whom  it  is  affectionately  inscribed  |  Newburyport  ]  From  the 
press  of  Angier  March  |  Sold  at  his  bookstore,  north  side  of  Market 
Square. 

An  I  Eulogy  |  on  |  General  George  Washington  |  who  departed  this 
hfe  December  14,  1799  |  in  the  68tii  year  of  his  age  |  Delivered  |  Before 
the  First  Religious  Society  in  Newburyport  |  February  22,  1800  |  By 
John  Andrews  A.  M.  |  Colleague  Pastor  with  the  Rev.  Thomas  Cary  | 
*  *  *  I  From  the  press  of  |  Angier  March  |  Sold  at  his  bookstore,  north 
side  of  Market  Square  |  Newburyport. 

A  I  Solemn  Call  |  to  the  |  Citizens  of  the  United  States  |  By  a  citizen 
of  Newburyport  |  Printed  and  sold  by  Angier  March,  Middle  street, 
Newburyport.  [no  date.]  [A  poem  of  eleven  pages,  probably  printed  in 
the  year  1800.] 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  to  the  |  First  Religious  Society  |  in  Newbury- 
port I  September  27,  1801  |  Being  the  Last  |  Lord's  Day  j  of  their 
assembling  in  the  |  Old  Meeting  House  |  By  Thomas  Cary  A.  M.  |  Sen- 
ior Pastor  I  From  the  Press  of  Allen  &  Stickney  |  Newburyport  1801. 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  |  October    i,    1801   |  at    the  |  Dedication  |  of 
a  I  New  House  |  For  \  Public  Worship  |  erected  by  the  |  First  Religious 
Society  |  in  Newburyport  |  By  John  Andrews  A.  M.  |  Colleague  Pastor 
with  the  I  Rev.  Thomas  Cary  |  From  the  press  of  Allen  &  Stickney  | 
Newburyport  1801. 

An  I  Oration  |  pronounced  before  the  |  Right  Worshipful  Master  & 
Brethren  |  of  |  St.  Peter's  Lodge  |  At  the  |  Episcopal  Church  in  New- 
buryport I  on  the  I  Festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  |  June  24,  5802  |  By 
Brother  Michael  Hodge,  Jun.,  P.  M.  |  From  the  Press  of  |  Brother 
Angier  March,  Newburyport  |  June  28,  5S02.' 

'  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 


APPENDIX 


499 


An  I  Address  |  to  the  j  Members  of  the  |  Merrimack  Humane  Soci- 
ety I  at  their  |  Anniversary  Meeting  |  in  Newburyport  |  September  3, 
1805  I  By  Daniel  Appleton  White  |  Newburyport  |  Edmund  M.  Blunt, 
Printer  |   1S05 

The  Advantages  of  God's  presence  with  his  peo  |  pie  in  an  expedition 
against  their  enemies.  |  A  |  Sermon  |  Preached  at  Newbury  May  22, 
1755  I  at  the  desire  and  in  the  audience  of  |  Col.  Moses  Titcomb  |  and 
many  others  inlisted  under  him  [  and  going  with  him  in  an  expe  |  dition 
against  the  French  |  By  John  Lowell,  A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  a  Church  in 
Newbury  |  *  *  *  |  Newburyport :  From  the  Press  of  E.  W.  Allen  | 
Sold  at  the  bookstore  of  Thomas  &  Whipple,  Market  Square  |  July 
1806 

A  I  Sermon  I  Occasioned    by    the    much    lamented     Death    of  |  Col. 
Moses  Titcomb  |  who  fell  in  the  battle  near  Lake  George  |  September 
8,  1755  I  By  John  Lowell,    A.  M.  |  Pastor  of  a   Church    in    Newbury  | 
*  *  *   Newburyport :   From    the    Press    of  E.    W.    Allen  |  Sold    at  the 
bookstore  of  Thomas  &  Whipple,  Market  Square  |  June  1806  ■ 

An  I  Address  |  to  the  |  Members  of  the  |  Merrimack  Humane  Soci- 
ety I  at  their  |  Anniversary  Meeting  |  in  Newburyport  |  September  6, 
1808  I  By  Michael  Hodge,  Jr. — Newburyport  |  From  the  Press  of  E.  W. 
Allen  I  Sold  at  the  bookstore  of  Thomas  &  Whipple,  No.  2  State 
street  j  1808  ^ 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  |  November  26,  1808  |  at  the  |  Interment  | 
of  the  I  Rev.  Thomas  Cary  A.  M.  |  Senior  Pastor  of  the  First  Relig- 
ious Society  in  |  Newburyport  |  By  John  Andrews  A.  M.  |  Surviving 
Pastor  1***1  Newburyport  |  Printed  for  Edward  Little  |   1808 

A  I  Discourse  |  Delivered  before  the  |  Merrimack  Humane  Society  | 
at  their  |  Anniversary  Meeting  |  September  i,  i8r2  |  By  John  Andrews 
A.  M.  I  Minister  of  the  First  Church   and   Religious  Society  |  in   New- 
buryport 1***1  Newburyport  |  From    the    Press   of  E.   W.    Allen  | 
1812 

In  181  5,  William  K.  Allen  &  Co.  published  the  following- 
described  books  and  pamphlets  : — 

The  Proceedings  of  a  Convention  of  Delegates  from  the  New  Eng- 
land States  convened  at  Hartford  December  15,  18 14. 

1  This  sermon  was  fust  printed  and  sold  by  Edes  &  Gill,  in  Queen  street,  Bos- 
ton, in  1760. 

'^  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 


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The  Little  Reader,  a  new  Spelling  Book  of  easy  lessons  in  Spelling 
and  Reading.  Designed  principally  for  the  Use  of  f'emale  Schools. 
By  James  Pike,  author  of  the  English  Spelling  Book. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  Isaac  Braman  at  the  Ordination  of  the  Rev.  Gardiner 
B.  Perry  at  Groveland,  Mass. 

History  of  England  from  the  earliest  period  to  the  close  of  the  year 
1812,  by  J.  Bigland,  with  an  Appendix:  being  a  Continuation  to  the 
Treaty  of  Paris  by  an  American  Gentleman. 

The  Catechism  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  America  *  *  * 
with  some  additions  by  James  Morss,  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  New- 
buryport. 

Other  books  and  pamphlets,  pubHshed  by  Charles  Whipple, 
W,  &  J.  Oilman  and  others,  at  a  later  date,  have  title-pages 
as  follows  : — 

Catalogue    of    Books  ]  in    the  |  Newburyport    Circulating    Library  | 
Kept  at  I  Charles  Whipple's  |  Bookstore  No.  4  State   Street   Newbury- 
port I  . .  .  I  1S16 

A  I  Sermon  |  Delivered  March  9,  1819,  at  the  funeral  |  of  the  j  Rev. 
Samuel  Spring,  D.  D.  |  Pastor  of  the  North  Congregational  Church  in 
Newbur}'port  |  By  Leonard  Woods  D  .  D.  j  Abbot  Professor  of  Christian 
Theology  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Andover  |  Newburyport  | 
Published  by  Charles  Whipple  No.  4  State  Street  |  1819  |  Flagg  & 
Gould  I  Printers 

Two  I  Sermons  |  addressed  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Society  |  in 
Newburyport  |  May  29,  1826  |  the  Sabbath  after  his  installation  |  By 
Daniel  Dana,  D.  D.  |  Newburyport  |  Printed  by  W.  &  J.  Gilman  |  No. 
9  State  street  |  1826 

Miracles  |  of  |  God  and  the  Prophets  |  By  Dr.  Antonio  Knight  |  New- 
buryport I  1829 

Letters  |  Descriptive  of  |  Public  Monuments,  Scenery  and  Manners  | 
in  France  and  Spain  |  In  two  volumes  |  Newburyport  |  Printed   by  E. 
W.  Allen  &  Co.  |  MDCCCXXXII.' 

The  I  Amaranth  |  A  |  Literary  and  Religious  Offering  |  Designed  as 
I  A  Christmas  and  New  Year's  Present  |  Edited  by  J.  H.  Buckingham 
I  Newburyport  |  Charles  Whipple  |  [1831]  Printed  by  J.  H.  Buckingham. 

1  These  letters  were  written  by  Mrs.  Caroline  Elizaheth  (Wilde)  Gushing,  wife 
of  Caleb  Gushing,  and  published  a  few  years  previous  to  her  death. 


APPENDIX 


501 


The  Amaranth  has  for  a  frontispiece  an  engraving  of  the 
cenotaph  erected  to  the  memory  of  Rev.  George  Whit efi eld, 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  meeting-house  on  Federal  street  in 
Newburyport,  and  contains  verses  and  prose  sketches  with 
titles  as  follows  : — 

Hampton  Beach,  by  George  Lunt. 

The  Empaled  Butterfly,  "   Hannah  F.  Gould. 

A  Story  of  Delhi,  "  Thomas  M.  Clark. 

Rev.  George  Whitefield,  "  Leonard  Withington. 

Sabbath  Morning,  ••   Park  Benjamin. 

The  Cloud  Ship,  "  Alonzo  Lewis. 

Alfred  Raybourg,  "  Thomas  M.  Clark. 

Advice  to  an   Infidel,  "  Leonard  Withington. 

A  Jewish  Tradition,  "  George  Lunt. 

Jehiel  Wigglesworth.  "   Mrs.  L.  H.  Sigourney. 

Joseph  H.  Buckingham  printed  in  Newburyport,  in  1832, 
for  Carter  &  Hendee  of  Boston,  a  poem  by  John  G.  Whit- 
tier,  entitled  "  Moll  Pitcher."  A  copy  of  this  poem,  dedi- 
cated to  Eli  Todd,  M.  D.,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  is  in  the 
library  of  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass. 

Calvin"s  Institutes  of  the  Christian  Religion,  translated  from  the 
original  Latin  and  collated  with  the  author's  last  edition  in  French  by 
John  Allen.  Published  in  three  volumes  by  William  B.  Allen  &  Co., 
Newburj-port,  1816.' 

The  Tongue  |  Two  Practical  Sermons  |  By  T.   W.   Higginson  j  Min- 
ister of  the  First   Religious    Society   in    Newburyport  |  Newburyport  | 
Published  by  A.  Augustus  Call  |  1850. 

Merchants  |  A  Sunday    Evening   Lecture  |  By    T.    W.    Higginson  | 
*    *    *  I  Newburyport  |  A.    A.    Call,     Publisher  j  Huse    and   Bragdon, 
Printers  |  1851. 

Strigilis  |  A  Rhyme  of  the  Railer  [  By  Aquillpen  |  Newburyport  |  E. 
Davis  Green,   Printer  |   1852.- 

'  Probably  printed  with  the  New  Haven  edition  of  the  same  date,  and  supplied 
with  title-page  only  by  the  Newburyport  publishers.  See  advertisement  in  the 
Newburj'port  Herald  and  Commercial  Gazette,  July  12,  1816. 

^  This  book,  criticising  the  whims  and  follies  of  the  day,  is  supposed  to  have 
been  written  by  Samuel  A.  Wheelwright  and  Richard  S.  Spofford,  jr.  On  account 
of  its  scratching  and  irritating  propensities,  the  poem  was  called  Strigilis, — "  A 
Curry  Comb. ' ' 


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The  I  Washiad  |  or  |  Siege  of  Washington  |  An  Epic  Poem  |  In 
three  cantos  |  Being  scenes  from  the  experience  of  an  office  seeker,  and 
containing  some  |  Account  of  the  Conspiracy  of  the  "  outsiders "'  to 
secure  appoint  |  ment  to  the  U.  S.  Government  offices  in  the  Custom 
House  I  and  Post  Office  at  Newburyport,  Mass.  |  By  an  Eminent  Con- 
servative I  Hoec  Olint  Meminisse  Juvabit  |  Canto  First  |  1858  |  ' 

The  first  Newburyport  Directory  was  printed  in  1848  and 
published  in  January,  1849.  Wooster  Smith,  pubhsher,  C 
Nason,  Watchtower  office,  printer.  In  1850,  Wooster  Smith 
was  pubUsher  of  the  directory,  and  Nason,  Bragdon  &  Co., 
Union  Press,  printers.  The  publisher  in  1851  was  John  E. 
Tilton,  printers,  Huse  &  Bragdon.  In  1853,  C,  Augustine 
Dockham  and  Nathaniel  P.  Brown  were  publishers,  and  Wil- 
liam H.  Huse,  printer.  In  1854  C.  Augustine  Dockham  was 
publisher,  and  William  H.  Huse,  printer.  In  1855,  Caleb 
Niles  Haskell  was  publisher,  and  Morss,  Brewster  &  Huse, 
printers.  In  1858,  and  for  several  years  after  that  date,  Caleb 
Niles  Haskell  was  publisher,  and  Adams,  Sampson  &  Co.,  of 
Boston,  printers.  In  1866,  Sampson,  Davenport  &  Co.,  suc- 
cessors to  Adams,  Sampson  &  Co.,  were  publishers  and  print- 
ers. From  1886  to  the  present  time  the  directory  has  been 
printed  and  published  by  Sampson,  Murdock  &  Co.  and  by 
the  Sampson  &  Murdock  Company. 

'  Only  one  canto  of  this  poem,  written  by  Edwin  Blood,  was  published.  It  is 
dedicated  "To  the  office  holders  under  the  Federal  Government  who  have  been 
re-appointed  by  the  President  in  opposition  to  the  principle  of  Rotation,  and,  above 
all,  in  opposition  to  the  small  jealousy, — the  petty  intrigue,  and  the  secret  treachery 
of  their  own  supposed  friends,"  and  describes  a  meeting  of  some  of  the  prominent 
politicians  of  Newburyport  and  the  banquet  that  followed,  at  which  choice  wines 
and  viands  were  served.  Printed  copies  of  the  first  canto  of  this  poem  are  in  the 
possession  of  Lawrence  B.  Gushing  of  Newburyport  and  James  E,  Whitney  of 
Boston. 


III. 

HENRY    I.UNT    AND    SOME    OF    HIS    DESCENDANTS.' 

The  ship  "  Mary  and  John,"  Robert  Sayres,  master,  saihng 
from  England  in  March,  1634,  arrived  in  Boston  in  the  month 
of  May  following.  Rev.  Thomas  Paiker,  John  Spencer, 
James  Noyes,  Nicholas  Noyes,  Henry  Lunt  and  others  were 
passengers  in  this  ship  and  settled  in  Newbury  in  1635. 

Henry  Lunt  was  granted  a  house  lot  and  several  acres  of 
farming  land  on  the  northerly  bank  of  the  Ouascaqunquen, 
now  Parker,  river.  May  2,  1638,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
privileges  of  a  freeman  in  the  colony   of  Massachusetts   Bay. 

He  married,  probably  in    1638,  Anne ,  by  whom  he  had 

the  following-named  children  : — 


Sarah, 

born  Nov 

.  S, 

1639. 

Daniel, 

"      May 

17, 

1641. 

John, 

"      Nov. 

30, 

1643, 

Priscilla, 

"     Feb. 

16, 

1646. 

Mary. 

"     July 

13, 

164S. 

Elizabeth, 

"     Dec. 

29, 

1650. 

Henry, 

"     Feb. 

20, 

i^b-3- 

When  the  new  town  was  laid  out,  in  1645,  on  the  south- 
westerly side  of  Merrimack  river,  Henry  Lunt  was  granted 
four  acres  of  land  on  the  Country  road,  now  High  street, 
between  Cottle's  lane,  now  Bromfield  street,  and  Chandler's 
lane,  now  Federal  street,  Newburyport.  On  this  lot  of  land 
he  probably  built  a  house  in  which  he  lived  until  his  death, 
July  10,  1662. 

'  Compiled  from  genealogical  records  and  papers  in  the  possession  of  Capt. 
James  O.  Knapp. 

503 


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In  his  will,  proved  on  the  thirtieth  of  September  following, 
he  gave  to  his  wife,  during  her  natural  life,  and  after  her  de- 
cease to  his  sons  John  and  Henry,  his  dwelling  house,  barn 
and  orchard,  to  his  son  Daniel  land  adjoining  his  homestead, 
and  to  his  daughters  Sarah,  Priscilla,  Mary  and  Elizabeth  the 
sum  of  twenty  pounds  each. 

Mrs.  Anne  Lunt,  widow,  married,  March  8,  1664-5,  Joseph 
Hills,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1602,  married  Rose  Clark 
in  1624,  came  to  Boston  with  his  wife  and  children  in  1638, 
and  lived  for  many  years  in  Charlestown,  and  afterwards  in 
Maiden,  Mass.  June  24,  165 1,  he  married,  for  his  second 
wife,  Hannah  (Smith),  widow  of  Edward  Mellowesof  Charles- 
town.  His  third  wife  was  Helen,  or  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Hugh  Atkinson/  and  his  fourth  wife  Mrs.  Anne  Lunt,  widow, 
as  above  stated.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  General  Court  from 
Charlestown  and  Maiden,  and  a  prominent  member  of  the 
committee  appointed  to  codify  the  laws  of  the  colony  of  Mas- 
sachusetts Bay  in  1648.  Soon  after  his  marriage  to  Mrs. 
Anne  Lunt  he  removed  to  Newbury,  and  was  elected  deputy 
to  the  General  Court  July  28,  1665,  but  for  some  reason  un- 
known did  not  attend  the  session  held  in  the  month  of  October 
following,  and  for  this  neglect  of  duty  a  fine  of  ten  pounds 
was  imposed  upon  the  freemen  of  the  town.^  He  was  subse- 
quently elected  deputy  for  the  sessions  beginning  May  15, 
1667,  and  May  19,  1669.  He  died  in  Newbury  February  5, 
1687-8.  His  widow,  Anne  (Lunt)  Hills,  died  several  years 
later. 

Daniel,  son  of  Henry  and  Anne  Lunt,  born  May  17,  1641, 
married,  May  16,  1664,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
(Catherine  Coker.  She  died  January  29,  1679,  and  he  mar- 
ried, for  his  second  wife,  Mary  (Cutting)  Moody,  widow  of 
Samuel  Moody,  and  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Mary  Cut- 
ting of  Newbury. 

'  History  of  Maiden  (D.  1'.  Corey),  page  182  note. 

-  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  677  note  and  678. 


APPENDIX  505 

Children  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Coker)  Lunt  : — 

Hannah,  born  May  17,  [665. 
Daniel,        '•      May  i,    1667. 
Henry,        "     June  23,  1669. 
John,  "     January  10,  1672. 

Sarah,        "     June  iS,  1674. 
Mary,         "     July  24,  1677. 

Children  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Cutting-Moody)  Lunt  : — 

Joseph,    born  March  4,  1681. 
Anne,  "     January  28,  1683. 

Benjamin,  "      March  15,  1686. 

Joseph,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Cutting-Moody)  Lunt, 
born  March  4,  1681,  married,  December  29,  1702,  Martha, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Poore)  Noyes.  She  died  June 
26,  1706;  and  he  married,  in  1708,  Joanna  Adams  for  his 
second  wife.  Joseph  and  Martha  (Noyes)  Lunt  had  only  one 
child  :— 

Mary,  born  December  3,  1705  ;  died  January  8,   1725-6. 

Joseph  and  Joanna  (Adams)  Lunt  had  the  following-named 
children  : — 

Elkaneh.  born  December  11,  1709. 

Joseph,        "  September  21,  I  71 1. 

Cutting,       •'  January  22,  1714. 

Lois,  '•  January  5,  171 7. 

Nathaniel,  "  May  2.  1719. 

Mehitable,  "  January  23,  1721. 

Eunice.       "  September  18,  1725. 

Cutting,  son  of  Joseph  and  Joanna  (Adams)  Lunt,  born 
January  22,  17 14,  married,  December  10,  1735,  Deborah, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Knight)  Jaques.  She 
died  February  14,  17S8.     He  died  December  29,  1790. 


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APPENDIX 


Children  of  Cutting  and  Deborah  (Jaques)  Lunt  : — 

Sarah,    born  in  October,  1736:  died  January  13,  1738. 

Paul,  "     March  18,  1739;  ^^^^  February  8,   1746. 

Richard,  •'     April  17,  1742. 

.Silas,         "      August  21,  1744:  died  April  13,  1752. 

Paul,  "     March  30,  1 747. 

Cutting,    "     January  1 ,  i  749. 

Richard,  son  of  Cutting  and  Deborah  (Jaques)  Lunt,  born 
April  17,  1742  ;  married,  June  23,  1765,  Elizabeth  Chapman 
of  Salem,  Mass.,  by  whom  he  had  the  following-named  chil- 
dren : — 

Elizabeth,  baptized  Oct.  4,  1767,  in  the  North  Church,  Salem. 
Deborah,         "         Oct.  4,  1767, 

Sarah,  "  Sept.  23,  1770,  "  "  ■'  " 

Richard,  "  Sept.  27,  1772,  "  "  "  " 

Joseph,  "         Dec.  4,  1774,     "  "  "  " 

November  15,  1776,  Richard  Lunt  sailed  from  Newbury- 
port  in  the  privateer  brig  Dalton,  and  was  captured  on  the 
twenty-fourth  of  December  following,  taken  to  England,  and 
confined  in  Mill  prison.'  He  was  released  in  1779,  and  sailed 
on  the  fourteenth  of  August  from  L'Orient,  in  France,  in  the 
frigate  Alliance,  with  the  Bon  Homme  Richard  and  other 
vessels,  under  the  command  of  John  Paul  Jones,  for  a  cruise 
on  the  British  coast.  He  died  October  27,  1796,  and  was 
buried  in  the  graveyard  near  the  First  Parish  meeting-house 
in  Newbury. 

Paul,  son  of  Cutting  and  Deborah  (Jaques)  Lunt,  born 
March  30,  1747,  married,  February  2,  1775,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Major  Joshua  and  Sarah  (Bartlett)   Coffin.     She  died 

,  and  he  married,  February  5,  1790,  Harriet  Adams 

for  his  second  wife.     He  was  a  lieutenant  in  Capt.  Ezra  Lunt's 
company  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill,  and  the  author  of  a  diary 

'  History  of   Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  627-629. 


APPENDIX 


^07 


published  in  the  Proceedini;'s  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society  for  February,  1872.  He  died  November  26,  1824. 
Harriet  (Adams)  Lunt  died  T^ebruary  20,  1852. 

Cuttini;-,  son  of  Cutting  and  Deborah  (Jaques)  Lunt,  and 
brother  of  Richard  and  Paul  Lunt,  born  January  i,  1749, 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Brown)  Ger- 
rish.  He  was  captain  of  the  marines  in  the  privateer  Inde- 
pendence, commanded  by  William  Nichols,  in  September, 
1776,  and  on  the  fifteenth  of  November  following  sailed  from 
Newburyport  in  the  brig  Dalton,  and  on  the  twenty-fourth  of 
December  was  captured  by  an  English  frigate,  taken  to  Eng- 
land, and  confined  in  Mill  prison.  After  his  release,  in  1779, 
he  was  third  lieutenant  of  the  Bon  Homme  Richard,  under 
the  command  of  John  Paul  Jones.  In  October,  1 780,  William 
Coffin  of  Newbury  was  captain  of  the  privateer  America,  and 
Cutting  Lunt,  sailing  master.'  The  privateer,  with  her  offi- 
cers and  crew,  was  lost  at  sea  in  1781  or  1782. 

Henry  Lunt,  jr.,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Coker)  Lunt, 
and  grandson  of   Henry  Lunt,  sr.,  was  born   June  23,  1669.' 

He  married  Mary in  1694,  probably,  by  whom  he  had 

the  following  named  children  : — 

Daniel,     born  June  15,  1695. 
Benjamin,   ••     June  21,  1700. 

Henry,         •' . 

Johnson.      '■     Aug.  12,  1704. 
Abner,          ■'     in  1 706. 
Sarah,  ■' . 

His  wife  Mary  Lunt  died  December  28,  1721  ;  he  died  in 
1738- 

1  Massachusetts  .\icliives,  vohime  165,   page  275;    volume   271,   page  291;    and 
volume  40,  page  58. 

'-'  See  page  505  for  children  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Coker)  Lunt. 


5o8  APPENDIX 

Abner,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Liint,  born  in  1 706,  mar- 
ried, May  6,  1726,  Hannah  Stickney.  Abner  and  Hannah 
(Stickney)  Lunt  had  the  following-named  children  :■ — 

Hannah,  born  Feb.  17.  1727. 
Sarah,  "     Sept.  14,  1730. 

Abner,         "     July  25,  1732. 

Abner,  son  of  Abner  and  Hannah  (Stickney)  Lunt,  born 
July  25,  1732,  married,  April  19,  175  i,  Miriam,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Miriam  (Woodman)  Cofhn.  They  had  chil- 
dren as  follows : — 

Anne,       born  Oct.  29,  1751. 
Miriam,      "     Feb.  9,  1 754. 

Jacob,         "     ■ -. 

Mary,  " . 

Micajah,     '•     Nov.  9,  1764. 

Abner  Lunt  died  at  sea  when  his  children  were  young  ;  and 
his  widow,  Miriam  Lunt,  died  March  7,  1787. 

Micajah,  son  of  Abner  and  Miriam  (Coffin)  Lunt),  born 
November  9,  1764,  served  in  the  army  and  navy  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  and  was  afterwards  a  prominent  merchant 
and  ship-owner  in  Newburyport.'  He  married,  June  11, 
1792,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Giddings  of  Ipswich,  by 
whom  he  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

William,  born  Oct.  3,  1793  ;  died  Aug.  14,  1794. 

Micajah,  '■•  April  22,  1796. 

William,  "  Jan.  i,  1798. 

Sarah  Lord,  "  Oct.  6,  1800. 

Mary  Coffin,  "  Nov.  9,  1802. 

George,  "  March  7,  1805. 

Hannah  Giddings, "  March  25,  1S07. 

Susan   Maria,  "  June  5,1811. 

1  See  chapter  XXII,  page  250. 


APPENDIX 


509 


Mrs.  Sarah  (Giddings)  Lunt  died  January  5,  1827,  and,  on 
the  thirty-first  of  July  following,  Mr.  Lunt  married,  for  his 
second  wife,  Sarah  B.,  daughter  of  Edmund  Swett,  by  whom 
he  had  one  son,  Jacob  William  Lunt,   born  January  30,  1829. 

Micajah  Lunt  died  August  30,  1840,  and  his  widow,  Sarah 
B.  (Swett)  Lunt,  died  September  2,  1876. 

Micajah,  son  of  Micajah  and  Sarah  (Giddings)  Lunt,  born 
April  22,  1796,  married.  May  29,  1826,  Hannah  Gyles, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Mulliken.  She  died  October  8,  1829, 
leaving  no  children,  and  Captain  Lunt  married,  December  13, 
1 83 1,  Mary  Johnson,  daughter  of  Edmund  Coffin,  for  his 
second  wife,  by  whom  he  had  the  following-named  children : — 

Micajah.  born  Nov.  21,  1832;       died  Jan.  18.  1865. 
Edmund  Coffin,  "     June  17,   1834;         "     in  May,  1838. 

Mary  Coffin,  '•     Oct.  20,  1835  ;         ''     Sept.  28,  1836. 

Sydney  William,  ''     July  14,    1837;         "     Nov.  30,  1838. 

Sarah  Giddings,  "     March  7.  1839:         "     Sept.  22,  1857. 

Edmund  Sydney,  '•     Dec.  25,  1841  ;         '•     Sept.  21,  1898. 

Mary  Coffin,  •'      May    8,   1845  ;  married.  June  18,  1874, 

Col.  Edward  O.  Shepard  of  Boston. 

Captain  Lunt'  was  a  large  ship-owner,  a  successful  merchant, 
and  for  many  years  president  of  the  Bartlet  Steam  Mills 
Manufacturing  Company.  He  died  January  8,  1874,  and 
his  widow,  Mary  Johnson  (Coffin)  Lunt,  died  June   19,    1878. 

Henry,  son  of   Henry  and  Anne  Lunt,   born   February  20, 

1653,  married  Jane   .      Henry   and   Jane   Lunt   had  the 

following-named  children  : — 

.Skipper,    born  Nov.  29,  1679. 


Mary, 

"     Jan.  16,  1682. 

Abraham,    ' 

'     Dec.  10,   1683 

John, 

■'     Feb.  I,  1686. 

William,      ' 

'     July  4,  1688. 

Daniel,       ' 

'     Jan.  I,  1691. 

'  See  biographical  sketch,  chapter  .\XII,   pages  251  and  252. 


5IO 


APPENDIX 


Jane,       born  Nov.  g,  1693. 

Samuel,      "  March  26,  1696. 

Henry,        •' . 

James,        "  Jan.  15,  1698. 

Daniel,  son  of  Henry  and  Jane  Lunt,  born  January  i, 
1 69 1,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Sarah  (Noyes) 
Pettingell,  January  21,  171 9-20.  Daniel  and  Mary  (Pettingell) 
Lunt  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

Matthew,  born  Oct.  24,  i  720. 
Daniel,  ''     Jan.  i,  1723. 

Henry,  "     Sept.  20,  1725. 

Moses,  "     Aug,  12,  1727. 

Mary,  "     Jan.  1 1,  1728-9. 

Sarah,  •'     March  20,  1734. 

Matthew,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Pettingell)  Lunt,  born 
October  24,  1720,  married  Jane  Moody  in  1742  probably. 
Matthew  and  Jane  (Moody)  Lunt  had  the  following-named 
children  : — • 


Ezra, 

born  April  10, 

1743- 

Daniel, 

u 

March  14 

,  1745- 

Anne, 

t( 

Feb.  28,  1 

■  750. 

Henry, 

11 

in   1754. 

Jane, 

11 

Feb.  20,  1 

756. 

Mary, 

" 

Feb.  25,  1 

1759- 

Elizabeth 

u 

March  2, 

1761. 

The  oldest  son,  Ezra,  married   Elizabeth   Pearce   in    1765, 

and  after  her  death  Mary .     In  April,  1774,  he  was  the 

owner  of  a  stage-coach,  advertised  to  leave  Newburyport  every 
Monday  morning  for  Boston,  returning  on  the  following 
Thursday  to  Newburyport.'  He  was  also  proprietor  and  pub- 
lisher of  The  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet,^  in 
company  with  Henry  Walter  Tinges,    under  the  firm-name  of 

'  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  390  and  395. 
-  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  503. 


APPENDIX 


511 


Lunt  &  Tinges,  from  Au<;ust,  1774,  until  May,  1775,  when 
he  enhsted  in  the  Continental  army,  and  was  cai)tain  of  a 
company  in  Col.  Moses  Little's  regiment  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  hill,  and  afterwards  served  in  New  York  and  New 
Jersey.'  In  1782  he  was  an  innholder  in  Newburyport,^  and 
subsequently  had  command  of  two  companies  raised  to  assist 
the  government  in  suppressing  the  rebellion  headed  by  Daniel 
Shays,  and  served  in  that  capacity  from  January  8  to  July  2, 
1787.^  Two  or  three  years  later  he  removed  to  Ohio,  where 
he  died  in  1803. 

Daniel,  the  second  son  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Moody) 
Lunt,  born  as  stated  on  the  opposite  page,  March  14,  1745, 
married  Sarah  Knight  in  1769. 

He  was  in  command  of  a  brig  captured,  February  25,  ^TTf^-, 
in  the  vicinity  of  Cape  Ann,  by  an  English  sloop-of-war,  and 
taken  into  Boston  harbor.  He  subsequently  published  an 
account  of  the  harsh  treatment  he  received  previous  to  his 
escape  from  the  merchant  ship  in  which  he  was  confined  for 
several  weeks. +  November  15,  1776,  he  sailed  from  New- 
buryport  in  the  privateer  Dalton,  Eleazer  Johnson,  master, 
and  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  December  following  was  cap- 
tured, taken  to  England,  and  confined  in  Mill  prison  for  two 
or  three  years.s  He  died  in  1787  ;  his  widow  died  July  20, 
18 16,  aged  sixty-eight. 

Henry,  the  youngest  son  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Moody) 
Lunt,  born  in  1754,  married  Sarah  . 

He  was  in  the  naval  service  early  in  the  year  1776,  and  on 
the  fifteenth  of  November  sailed  from  Newburyport  in  the 
privateer  Dalton,  was  captured  by  an  English  frigate,  taken  to 
England,  and  confined  in  Mill  prison.     After  his   release  in 

'  History  of  Xewhuryport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  546-549  and  note. 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  390. 

3  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  89-91. 

''  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  620. 

*  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  62S  and  629. 


512 


APPENDIX 


1779,  he  was  second  lieutenant  of  the  Bon  Homme  Richard, 
under  the  command  of  John  Paul  Jones/       He  died  in  1805. 

Henry,  son  of  Henry  and  Sarah  Lunt,  born  February  28, 
1776,  married  Mary  Green  Pearson  May  24,  1801.  He  re- 
mov^ed  to  Boston  in  1809,  and  was  for  many  years  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Lunt  &  Leach,  on  India  wharf  in  that 
city.      He  died  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  March  4,  1859. 

His  son,  William  Parsons  Lunt,  born  in  Newburyport  April 
2,  1805,  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1823,  studied  for 
the  ministry  in  the  Theological  school  at  Cambridge,  and  was 
pastor  of  the  Second  Unitarian  church  in  the  city  of  New 
York  from  June  19,  1828,  to  November,  1833.  He  was  in- 
stalled, June  3,  1835,  assistant  pastor,  or  colleague,  of  Rev. 
Peter  Whitney,  senior  pastor  of  the  Unitarian  church  in 
Ouincy,  Mass.,  and  at  the  burial  of  John  Ouincy  Adams,  in 
1 848,  delivered  a  sermon  which  was  said  to  be  "  worthy  of  a 
place  beside  any  funeral  oration  of  ancient  or  modern 
times." 

He  died  March  21,  1857,  'I'l  Arabia,  on  his  way  to  Jeru- 
salem, and  was  buried  in  the  sand  near  Akaba,  on  the  eastern 
arm  of  the  Red  sea.  A  rude  heap  of  stones  marks  his  last 
resting-place.-  A  tablet,  with  the  following  inscription,  was 
erected  to  his  memory,  in  1858,  in  the  church  at  Ouincy,  where 
he  preached  for  more  than  twenty  years : — ■ 

In  memory  of 
William  Parsons  Lunt  D.  D. 

Pastor  of  this  Church 

Prized,  Honored,  Lamented, 

Theologian,  Poet  &  Scholar 

He  devoted  his  Life 

To  Intellectual  Pursuits  and  Sacred  Exercises. 

Weighty  and  Accomplished  as  a  Writer 

Eloquent  as  a  Preacher 

Conservative  in  a  Liberal  Doctrine: 

1  History  of  Newburyport  (Cunier),  volume  I,   pages  602-605. 

-  History  of  Braintree  and  Ouincy,  Ly  William  S.  Pattee,  pages  225  and  226. 


APPENDIX  5  1 3 

Of  a  (Irave  &  Earnest  Spirit, 

He  loved  the  Highest  Meditations 

And  meditated  the  Truest  Services. 

Born  in  Newburyport  April  XXI,  MDCCCV,' 

Installed  here  June  III,  MDCCCXXXV. 

He  died  at  Ezion-Geber  on  his  way  to  Jerusalem 

March  XXI,  MDCCCLVII. 

'■  Even  so  says  the  Sijirit.  for  they  rest."'- 

Henry,  son  of  Daniel  and  Maiy  (Pettingcll)  Lunt\  born 
September  20,  1725,  married,  January  31,  1764,  Abigail 
(Allen)  Lunt,  widow  of  Josiah  Lunt.  Henry  and  Abigail 
(Allen)  Lunt  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

Samuel  Allen,  born  November  3,  1  769. 

Abel,  "     in  1767. 

Joseph,  "      February  13.  1774. 

Abel,  son  of  Henry  and  Abigail  (Allen)  Lunt,  born  No- 
vember 3,  1769,  married.  May  13,  1795,  Phebe  Tilton. 

Abel  and  Phebe  (Tilton)  Lunt  had  the  following-named 
children  : — 

Abel,       born  November  i  7,  i  79S. 
George,     •'     December  31,  1S03. 

George,  son  of  Abel  and  Phebe  (Tilton)  Limt,  born  De- 
cember 31,  1803,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1824,  studied  law, 
and  three  or  four  years  later  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Newburyport.^  October  25,  1834,  he  married  Sarah 
Miles  Greenwood.  She  died  in  July,  1842,  and,  two  years 
later,  he  married  Emily,  daughter  of  John(.')  Ashton.  For  his 
third  wife  he  married  Adelaide  Parsons,  sister  of  the  poet, 
T.  W.  Parsons. 

'  William  Parsons  Lunt  was  liorn  April  j,  1805,  according  to  the  Ncwburyp(;rt 
town  records. 

-  History  of  Braintree  anil  (Juincy,  William  S.  I'attee,  page  141. 

3  See  page  510. 

•*  Chapter  XXIII,  page  281. 


5M 


APPENDIX 


After  his  removal  to  Boston,  in  1848,  he  was  United  States 
attorney  for  the  district  of  Massachusetts  from  1849  to  1853, 
and  editor  of  the  Boston  Courier  from  1856  to  1865.  During 
the  last  years  of  his  life  he  resided  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  and 
devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  He  died  in  Boston  May 
17,  1885,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  cemetery,  Newbury- 
port. 


IV. 

SOLDIERS    STATIONED    AT    PLUM    ISLAND. 

During  the  war  of  1812  troops  were  stationed  at  Plum 
island,  and  several  independent  military  companies  were  or- 
ganized for  service  there.  An  observatory  erected  on  Lunt's 
hill,  in  Newbury,  now  March's  hill,  Newburyport,  was  supplied 
with  field-glasses  and  telescopes  for  the  purpose  of  watching 
the  movement  of  vessels  approaching  the  mouth  of  Merrimack 
river.' 

The  Silver  Greys,  composed  of  merchants  and  men  of 
prominence  in  the  town,  having  provided  themselves  with  arms 
and  ammunition,  offered  to  assist  in  erecting  fortifications  on 
the  island  ;  and  the  Sea  Fencibles,  a  company  of  ship-masters 
and  seamen,  out  of  employment,  attracted  considerable  atten- 
tion escorting  the  lieutenant-governor  of  the  commonwealth 
of  Massachusetts  to  Plum  island  when  Fort  Philip  was  com- 
pleted and  supplied  with  cannon  for  the  defence  of  the  sea- 
coast.  They  carried  a  flag  with  only  five  stars  in  the  union, 
representing  the  five  New  England  states. 

The  Washington  Light  Infantry,  Captain  Titcomb,  was  on 
duty  at  the  island  for  a  week  in  the  summer  of  1814,-'  and 
other  companies  volunteered  to  assist  in  building  temporary 
batteries  if  needed. 

The  following-named  officers  and  men  were  placed  in  charge 
of  the  batteries,  when  com[)leted,  by  order  of  the  commander- 
in-chief  : — ^ 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  July  2,  1813.  The  observatory  was  sold  at  public 
auction  July  13,  1815. 

'  Newburyport  Herald,   |uly  26,   1S14. 

'■'  Archives,  adjutant-general's  office,  Boston,  Mass. 


5  1 6  APPENDIX 

Sergeant  Pilsbury's  Detachment,  from  June  21  to  June  28,  181 4. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Chas.  Pilsbury.  Washington  Webster, 

Privates.  Winchester  Knight, 

John  Daveds,  Danl.  B.  Pingree, 

Nicholas  Blasdell,  Ephraim  Goodwin, 

Benj.  Kent,  Charles  Emerson, 

Jas.  Bachelder,  Ezekiel  True. 


Sergeant  Young"s  Detachment,  from  June  28  to  July  5,  1S14. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

James  .Young.  Nathl.  March, 

Privates.  Moses  Kimball, 

James  Campbell,  James  S.  Goodhue, 

George  Norton,  jr.,  Jonathan  Choate, 

Wm.  Burk,  Samuel  Bagley, 

Samuel  Knapp,  Thos.  Yatte, 

Isaac  Poor,  Nathl  Perkins, 

Moses  Norton,  Daniel  Stanwood, 

Charles  Davis,  Philip  Colby. 
Robert  Leigh, 


Sergeant  Griffin's  Detachment,  from  July  5  to  July  12,  181 4. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Jacob  Griffin.  Thomas  Somerby, 

Privates.  Stephen  Pritchard. 
John  Newman, 


Sergeant  Robert  Griffin's  Detachment,  from  July  5  to  July  12,  1814. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Robert  Griffin.  Philip  Butler, 

Privates.  Jeremiah  Burnham, 

Ephraim  I.  Smith.  Benj.  Folsom, 

Joseph  Whittemore,  John  Demars, 

Enoch  Danford,  Geo.  Packer, 

Wm  C.  Pilsbury,  Thos.  Wyatt, 

Theodore  Libbey,  Sam'l  Gibson. 


APPENDIX 


517 


Sergeant  Mason's  Detachment, 

Sergeant. 
Wni.  S.  Moses, 
James  Campell  (?). 

Drummer. 
George  Moulton. 

Fifer. 
Jonathan  Moulton,  Jr. 

Privates. 
Joseph  Whittemore, 
Jonathan  Sweet, 
Charles  Call, 
Moses  Morton, 


from  July  12  to  July  19,  181 4. 

Privates. 
W'"  Somersby,  Jr., 
Thomas  Wyatt, 
Dan'l  Stanwood, 
Nathaniel  Hodge, 
Joseph  Gerrish, 
Wm  Somersby, 
W'"  Jennison,  Jr., 
John  Dodge. 
Ebenezer  Wheelright, 
Sam'l  Prince. 


Sergeant  White's  Detachment,  from 

Sergeant. 
Thos.  B.  White. 

Coqjoral. 
James  Campbell, 

Musician. 
Samuel  Gibson. 

Fifer. 
Charles  Butler. 

Privates. 
Thos.  Somersby. 
Richard  Evans, 
Thos.  Wyatt, 


July  25  to  July  30,  1 814. 

Privates. 
Wm  Somersby, 
Samuel  Wheeler,  Jr., 
Ephraim  I.  Smith, 
Philip  Butler, 
Chas.  Call, 
Hector  Cross, 
Wm  Hastings, 
Dan'l  Pilsbury, 
Dan'l  Stanwood, 
Wm  Shaw, 
Sam'l  Mason. 


Sergeant  Gordon's  Detachment, 

Sergeant. 
Charles  Gordon. 

Corporal. 
James  Campbell. 

Drummer. 
Moses  Bayley. 

Fifer. 
Nathi  F.  Flanders. 

Privates. 
Wm  Allen. 
A.  W.  Trusdale, 
Robert  H.  Noyes, 


from  July  30  to  August  6,  1S14. 

Privates. 
Robert  Gardner, 
Charles  Hall. 
Thos.  Furnald, 
Nehemiah  Flanders,  Jr., 
Benj.  Pidgin, 
H.  B.  Haskell. 
Ephraim   I.  Smith, 
John  Flanders, 
Daniel  Pike, 
Joseph  Woodman,  3rd, 
Joseph  F.  Chase. 


5i8 


APPENDIX 


Sergeant  Brown's  Detachment,  frota  August  6  to  August  15, 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Thomas  Brown.  Charles  Cole, 

Corporal.  James  Campbell, 

Dan'l  Stone.  Joseph  Ham, 

Drummer.  George  Packer, 

Wm  Mason.  James  Burns, 

Fifer.  Thomas  Wyatt, 

John  Havers  (or  Flavers).  Amos  Clark, 

Privates.  Merrill  Morse, 

Wm  Davis,  Wni  Davenport, 

Wm  Middleton,  John  Huse, 

Saml.  Swasey,  Joseph  Silloway. 


1S14. 


Sergeant  Noyes"  Detachment,  from  August  13  to  August  20,  18 14. 

Sergeant.  Fifers. 

Jacob  Noyes,  jr.  Dan'l  Morton. 

Corporal.  Privates. 

Sam'l  Clark.  Nathl  Currier,  Jr., 

Drummer.  Thos  Ladd, 

Sam'l  Dodge.  Thos.  Yatt  (or  Gatt), 

Fifers.  John  Green, 

Chas.  Davis,  Henry  Jackson, 

Will  Hall,  James  Campbell. 


Sergeant  Wood's  Detachment,  from  August  10  to  August  27,  1814. 

Privates. 
Chas.  Call  (or  Cole), 
Ephraim  I.  Smith, 
Nathl  Fitz, 
Joseph  Laskey, 
Joseph  Silloway, 
Will  Anderson, 


Sergeant. 
Wm.  Wood. 

Corporal. 
James  Campbell. 

Drummer. 
Moses  Bayley. 

Fifer. 
Joseph  Knapp. 

Privates. 
Dudley  Hardy, 
James  Wood, 
Benj.  Pidgen, 
Henry  Morrison, 
John  Carr, 


Geo.  Packer, 
Thos.  Wyatt, 
Chas.  Pillsbury, 
Jacob  Griffin, 
Sam'l  Cressey, 
Nath'l  Warner, 
Moses  Ordway. 


APPE.VDIX 


519 


Sergeant  Griffin's  Detachment, 

Sergeant. 
Jacob  Griffin. 

Corporal. 
Ephraim  I.  Smith. 

Drummers. 
Thos  B.  Stone, 
John  Butler. 

Privates. 
Thos  Wood, 
Nehemiah  Flanders,  Jr 
James  Campbell, 
Charles  Call, 
W'li  Mason, 
Benj.  Newman,  Jr., 


from  August  27  to  September  3,  1.S14. 

Privates. 
Sam'l  Wood, 
Benj.  H.  Wadleigh. 
Sam'l  Gibson, 
Artemas  W.  Truesdall, 
Joseph  Wilson, 
Robert  Gardner, 
Wm  Marden, 
Arthur  Somersby, 
Edward  Currier, 
James  Morton, 
John  P'enney, 
Robert  Gardner, 
Joseph  Bassett. 


Sergeant  Evans"  Detachment,  from  September  3  to  September  10,  181 4. 

Privates. 
James  Wood, 
James  Cambell, 
Wm  Kloot, 
Benj.  Pidgen, 
Sam'l  Dodge, 
Wm  Anderson, 


Sergeant. 
Richard  Evans. 

Corporal. 
John  Putnam. 

Drummer. 
Moses  Bayley. 

Fifer. 
Robert  Gordon. 

Privates. 
Dan'l  Pike, 
Artemas  Flanders,  Jr., 


Henry  Morrison, 
Joseph  Laskey, 
John  Carr, 
Jacob  Prichard. 


Sergeant  Stone's  Detachment,  from  September  10  to  September  17,  181 4. 


Sergeant. 
Wm  Stone. 

Coiporal. 
Amos  Foreman. 

Drummer. 
Tristram  Plummer. 

Plfer. 
Orlando  Brown. 

Privates. 
Moses  Coffin, 
James  Merrill, 


Privates. 
Sam'l  Creasey, 
Nehemiah  Flanders,  Jr., 
Stephen  H.  Peabody, 
Joseph  Stickney, 
James  W'ood, 
Charles  Cook,  3'd, 
Robert  Gardner, 
Joseph  Picker,  Jr., 
Geo.  Packer, 
Thos  Wood. 


520 


APPENDIX 


Sergeant  Wood's  Detachment, 

Sergeant. 
Jonathan  Wood. 

Coiporal. 
Ebenezer  Noyes. 

Drummer. 
Chas.  F.  Backliff. 

Fifer. 
Joseph  Knapp. 

Privates. 
Wm  Balch, 
Joseph  Elder, 
Wm  Kloot, 


from  Sept.  17  to  Sept.  24,  1814. 

Privates. 
Moses  Bayley, 
Geo.  Packer, 
Thos  Pearson,  Jr., 
Wm  Hull, 
Thos  Johnson, 
John  Butler, 
Ephraim  I.  Smith, 
Edward  Currier, 
Sam'!  Clark, 
David  Reed, 
Chas.  Walker. 


Sergeant  Greely"s  Detachment, 

Sergeant. 
Nath'l  Greely, 
Wm  Kloot. 

Drummer. 
Artemas  W.  Truesdall. 

Fifer. 
Chas.  Rogers. 

Privates. 
Nath'l  Woodman, 
Richard  Wells, 
Wm  Flanders, 


from  Sept.  24  to  Oct.  i, 

Privates. 
Joseph  Silloway, 
Edward  Packer, 
Joseph  Furnald, 
John  Hoyt, 
Robert  Gardner, 
Alexr  Robinson, 
Nathl  March, 
Sam'l  Brown,  Jr., 
James  Pease, 
Nathl  Howard. 


1814. 


Sergeant  Hodge's  Detachment,  from  October  i  to  October  8,  18 14. 

Privates. 


Sergeant. 
S.  S.  Hodge. 

Corporal. 
Dan'l  Balk. 

Musicians. 
Enoch  Stickney, 
Benj.  G.  Johnson. 

Privates. 
James  Francis, 
Henry  Loring, 
Anthony  Devenport, 
Geo.  Carter, 


Wm  H.  Tyler, 
Oliver  Prescott,  jr., 
Joseph  Lunt,  jr., 
Nathl  Wyer,  jr., 
Wm  H.  Prince, 
Nathan  Plummer, 
Joseph   Knapp, 
James  Campbell, 
Thos  Johnson, 
John  Broking, 
Nathan  A.  Prescott 
(or  Brackett). 


APPENDIX 


521 


Roll  of  Captain  Titcomb's  Company,  Lt 
{6tli  Regt.,  2<i  Brigade,  2<1  Division),  from 

Captain. 
Paul  Titcomb. 

Lieutenant. 
John   Chickering. 

Ensign. 
Chas.  H.  Black. 

Sergeants. 
Eleazer  Johnson,  jr., 
Jonathan  G.  Johnson, 
Benj.  G.  Sweetser. 

Musicians. 
Jos.  Gardner, 
John  G.  Stall, 
John  Carlton, 
Leonard  Philips. 

Privates. 

Collery, 

Philip  Johnson,  jr., 
John  Greenleaf, 
Nathan  Follansbee, 
Charles  Davenport, 
Abel  Johnson, 
Charles  Whipple, 
Wm  P.  Johnson, 


.-Col.  Paul  Merrill's  Regiment 
October  5  to  October  7,  1S14. 

Privates. 
John  Porter, 
Jeremiah  P.  Tappan, 
John  Scott, 
Paul  Bishop, 
Edmund  Sweet, 
Oliver  Spaulding, 
Geo.  Rogers, 
Ebenezer  Steadman, 
Charles  Gordon, 
Benjamin  Pardee, 
Jacob  Swain, 
Anthony  Perkins, 
Richard  M.  Bartlett, 
Jonathan  Call,  jr., 
Ebenezer  Wheelwright, 
Wm  Black, 
Wm  Boardman, 
Stephen  Tilton, 
Wm  Shaw, 
Geo.  Cofifin, 
Anthony  Smith, 
George  Greenleaf. 


Captain  Greenleaf "s  Company,  from  October  5  to  October  7,  1814. 


Captain. 
Charles  Greenleaf. 

Ensign. 
Solomon  Foster. 

Sergeants. 
Thos  Brown, 
Henry  Hudson. 

Privates. 
Benjamin  Barber, 
Charles  Cook, 
Moses  Cole, 
Wm  Davenport, 
Joseph  Doggett, 


Privates, 
Frederic  W.  Donnell, 
Wm  Davis, 
Amos  Foreman, 
John  Huse, 
John  Page, 
Wm  Middleton, 
Joseph  Pike, 
Merrill  Morse, 
John  Stephens, 
Joseph  Taylor, 
Wm  K.  Wilson. 


522 


APPENDIX 


Captain  Pierce's  Company,   Col.  Merrill's  Regiment,  from  October  5  to 
October  7,  1814. 
Captain.  Privates. 

Nicholas  Pierce.  John  Brown, 

Ensign.  Moses  Hale, 

James  Cook.  Nath'l  Hodge, 

Sergeants.  Jonathan  Moulton, 

H.  G.  Britton,  Dan'l  Smith, 

Saul  Stevens,  John  Dodge, 

Silas  Rogers.  Wm  Tennisson, 

Privates.  Sam'l  Prince, 

John  Hoytt,  INath'l  Woodman, 

Moses  More,  Nath'l  Talbot. 

Captain  Coffin's  Company,  Col.  MerriU's  Regiment,  from   October  5    to 

October  7,  1814. 


Captain. 
Nath'l  Coffin. 
Lieutenant, 
John  Dodge,  jr. 

Ensign. 
Jas.  H.  Currier. 

Sergeant. 
James  Young. 

Privates. 
Nathan  A.  Bricket, 
Wm  Burk, 
Wm  Couch, 
Thomas  D.  Cook, 
Samuel  Currier, 
Walter  Brown, 


Privates. 
Chas.  Davis, 
Wm  Kloop, 
Joseph  Lasky, 
Nathi  March, 
Stephen  Ordway, 
Peter  Post, 
William  Stan  wood, 
Ebenezer  Walch, 
Jonathan  Pettingill, 
Isaac  Poor, 
Joseph  Piper, 
James  Campbell, 
Joseph  Knap,  jr., 
Daniel  .Spiller. 


Captain    Plummer's   Company,  Col.  Merrill's   Regiment,  from  October  5 
to  October  7,    1S14. 

Musicians. 


Captain. 
Enoch  IMummer. 
Lieutenant. 
Jonathan  Cooledge. 

Sergeant. 
Wm  Wood. 

Corporals. 
Benj.  Pidgin, 
Nathi  Flanders, 
J.  T.  Chase. 


Benj.  Stevens, 
Charles  F.  Backlyft. 

Privates. 
James  Brown,  jr., 
Moses  Bayley, 
James  Horton, 
Robert  Noyes, 
Edward  Titcomb, 
Edmund  Backlyft, 


APPENDIX 


523 


Privates. 
Robert  Pearson, 
Geo.  Thompson, 
Thos  Somerby,  jr., 
John  Flanders, 
Edward  Packer, 
Henr}-  Morrison. 
Ebenezer  Noyes, 
Jonathan  Af.  Burbank, 
\Vm  Flanders, 


Privates. 
Richard  Wells, 
Saml.  Brown, 
Joseph  Brown,  3rd, 
George  Packer, 
Artemas  W.  Trusdall, 
Joseph  Silliway, 
Neheniiah  Flanders, 
Wm.  Mooer, 
Thos.  Robert. 


Lieutenant  Moody's  Detachment,  Col.  Merrill's  Regiment,  from  October  5 
to  October  7,  18 14. 

Privates. 


Lieutenant. 
John  Moody. 

Sergeants. 
Jacob  Noyes, 
Richard  Hooker, 
Nath'l  Greely, 
Thos.  Davis. 
Privates. 
Zachariah  Atwood, 
Matthew  Currier,  jr., 
Edward  Currier, 
Samuel  Clark, 
Wm  Chase, 
Samuel  Dodge, 
Joshua   Frye, 
Daniel  Foster,  jr.. 


John  Green, 
Thomas  Hall, 
Joseph  Haskell, 
Henry  Jackson, 
Wm  Hall, 
James  Pease, 
John  Perkins, 
Stephen   Boardman, 
Nicholas  Short, 
Thos.  Todd, 
John  Finey  (or  Tiney) , 
John  Wells,  jr., 
Benj.  Hyatt,  jr., 
Arthur  Somersby, 
Micajah  Lunt. 


Captain  Pike's  Company.  Col.   Merrill's   Regiment,  from   October  5 
to  October  7,  1S14. 


Captain. 
James  F.  Pike, 
Lieutenant. 
Abner  Pearson. 

Ensign. 
Benj.  Greely. 
Sergeants. 
Charles  Hunt, 
Thomas  B.  White, 
Richard  Evans, 
Jonathan  Wood. 


Musicians. 
John  Putnam, 
Joel  Smith. 

Privates. 
Foster  Smith, 
Isaac  Rand. 
Robert  Gordon, 
Samuel  Wheeler, 
Wm  Hastings, 
Sam'l  D.  Ford, 
Heaton  Cross, 


524 


APPENDIX 


Privates. 
Joseph  Elder, 
Chas,  Short, 
Geo.  Short, 
Joseph  Short,  jr., 
Daniel  Chase, 
Jacob  Pritchard, 
Thomas  Plummer, 
Charles  Butler, 
John  Mace, 
Lewis(?)  Spring, 
Sam'l  Spring, 
Francis  Todd, 
Geo.  Peabody. 
Joseph   Plummer, 


Privates. 
Wm  Shaw, 
Will  Edmunds, 
Edward  Berry, 
Jas.  Furnald, 
Thos  Pearson, 

Woodbridge, 

James  L.  Foot, 
Henry  Frothingham, 
Wm  D.  Burnham. 
Joseph  Tupper, 
Sam"l  Chase, 
John  Coffin, 
Wm.  Kimball,  jr., 
Hehta  Ellis. 


Captain  Caldwell's  Company, 
to  6th  of 

Captain. 
Alex.  Caldwell. 

Ensign. 
Reuben  W.  Rogers. 

Sergeants. 
Eben  Bradbury, 
Jacob  Griffen, 
Wm  Getchel. 

Privates. 
Harrison  Bradley, 
Wm  Marden, 
Amos  .S keels, 
Joseph  Putman, 
Joseph  Wilson,  jr., 
Michael  Sumner, 
Joseph  Wentworth, 
Ralph  Cross, 
Moses  Cass, 


Col.  Merrill's  Regiment,  from  5th  to 
October,    1814. 

Privates. 
Joshua  Hills, 
Richard  Peters, 
Wm  Whitmore, 
Will  Caldwell, 
Thos.  B.  Stone, 
Enoch  Baker, 
John  Glines, 
Jas.  Woodman, 
Benj.  H.  Wadleigh, 
John  Caldwell, 
Benj.  Newman,  jr., 
Samuel  Whood  (?), 
Peter  Morse, 
Ephraim  Smith, 
Wm  Welch, 
Nath'l  Bassett, 
Wm  Rogers. 


Captain  Williams"  Company,  Col.  Merrill's  Regiment,  two  days  between 
October  5  and  October  11,  1S14. 

Sergeant. 


Captain. 
Abraham  Williams. 


Charles  Pillsbury. 


A  IMPEND  IX 


525 


Trivates. 
James  Murrill, 
James  Chase,  jr., 
Orlando  Brown, 
Wistran  I'lunimer, 
Charles  Pearson, 
James  Wood, 
Joseph  Stickne)', 
\Vm  Mitchell, 
Joseph  Batchelder, 


Privates. 
Benj.  Kent, 
Charles  Emerson, 
Caleb  Lufkin, 
Ezekiel  True, 
Thos.  Morrison, 
Moses  Ordway, 
Nathaniel  Warner, 
Ephraim  Goodwin. 
Davis  Hervv. 


Captain   Stickney's  Company,    Col.  Merrill's   Regiment,  from  October  7 
to  October  11,  1814. 


Captain. 
Jacob  Stickney. 

Lieutenants. 
David  Lufkin, 
Charles  Hodge. 

Quartermaster. 
Samuel  Hoyt. 

Sergeants. 
Jeremiah  Wheelwright. 
Green  Johnson, 
Joseph  Buntin, 
Wm  Bartlett. 

Corporals. 
Wm  Young, 
Joseph  Aubin, 
Charles  Cook, 
James  Francis. 

Musicians. 
David  Lake, 
John  Putnam, 
Hoel  Smith, 
Moses  Bailey, 
Samuel  Walter, 

Privates. 
Nicholas  Lattimore, 
Mayo  Gerrick, 
Jeremiah  Blanchard, 
Jacob  Knap, 
John  H.  Titcomb, 


Privates. 
Hos(.?)  Adams, 
David  Coffin,  jr., 
Charles  Hall, 
Jonathan  Titcomb, 
George  Kilborne,  jr., 
James  Cummings, 
John  Boddely, 
W'm  Howard, 
Joseph  Parsons, 
Henry  Furlong, 
Christopher  Bassett, 
Joseph  Grind, 
Wm  Lawson, 
John  Stone, 
Amos  Dennis, 
Samuel  Swasey, 
Jonathan   C.  Welch, 
Benjamin  Toppen,   jr. 
Wm  Friend, 
Dan"l  Tilton. 
Enoch  Haskell, 
Stephen  Norton, 
David  Haskell, 
Thomas  Stallard, 
Silas  Nowell, 
Wm  B.  Norton, 
Nathan  Brown, 
John  Young, 


526 


APPENDIX 


Privates. 
Isaac  Park, 
John   Couch, 
Alex'r  Livingston, 
Robert  Kilborn, 
Amos  Knight, 


Privates. 
Joseph  Stover, 
Enoch  Gerrish, 
John  Dole, 
Thomas  Boardman. 
Joseph  Lovett. 


Lieutenant  Chickering's   Detachment,  from  Oct.  8  to  Nov.  7,   1814. 


Lieutenant. 
John   Chickering. 

Sergeant. 
Frankhn  Gerrish. 

Corporals. 
Nath'l  Flanders, 
Jas.  Morrell. 

Musician. 
Richard  Page. 

Privates. 
John  Chase,  jr., 
Wm  Hall, 
Michael  Stevens, 
Jedediah  Kilburn, 
Henry  Pearson, 
John  Dennis  Farley, 
Amos  Noyes,  jr., 


Privates. 
Sam"l  Smith, 
Levi  Goodwin, 
Wm  Smith, 
John  Brown, 
Moses  Emery. 
Daniel  Gall, 
John  Pressey, 
Wm  Vickery, 
Robert  Gardner, 
Jas.  Laskey, 
Moses  Call  (or  Cole), 
Joseph  Brown, 
Enoch  Somersby, 
Wm  Marden, 
Wm  Kloot(?), 
Sam"l  Lunt. 


Lieutenant  Goodwin's  Detachment,  from  Nov.  7  to  Dec.  7,  1814. 


Lieutenant. 
John  Goodwin. 

Sergeant. 
Jacob  Griffin. 

Corporal. 
Stephen   Bartlett. 

Musicians. 
Nath'l  Rogers, 
Charles  Flanders, 
John  Gerrish. 

Privates. 
Jeremiah  Eaton, 
John  Merrill,  4th, 


Privates. 
Sam'l  Ordway, 
Enoch  Flanders, 
Moses  Hoyt, 
James  Nichols, 
John  Blaisdell,  3rd, 
Chas.  F.  Racklefft, 
Edward  Parker, 
Robert  Pearson, 
Wm  Bush, 
Wm  Connor, 
Jacob  Merrill, 
James  Robbins, 


APPRNDrX 


527 


I'livales. 
Wm  Chase, 
Chas.  Bartlett, 
Wade  Elsey  (or  Ilsey), 
Chas.  Chase, 
Dan'I   Wells. 
Henry  Kent, 


Privates. 
Ely  Adams, 
Levi  Pickman, 
W"!  Silloway, 
John  M.  Noyes, 
Josepli    Lowell. 


Lieutenant  Little's    Detachment,   from   Dec.   7   to   Dec.    13,    1S14. 


Lieutenant. 
Geo.  Little 

Sergeant. 
True  G.  Graves. 

Corporals. 
Walter  Brown, 
Philip  Butler. 

Musicians. 
John  Morrill,  jr., 
Moses  Brown,  jr. 

Privates. 
James  S.  Gates, 
Daniel  Wells,  jr., 
Michael  Rogers, 
Luther  Weston, 
Samuel  Atwood, 
Henry   Rogers, 


Privates. 
James  Burrill, 
Caleb   Reed, 
Richard  Adams, 
Thos.  Goodwin, 
John  Evans,  jr., 
Reuben  McCrelles, 
Gidion  Bartlett, 
Dan'l  Gall  (14  Days), 
James  Foot. 
W"i  Saunders. 
Geo.  Packer  (or  Parker), 
Chas.  Emerson. 
Frederick  Donniel, 
Wm.  Chase,  jr., 
Nehemiah  Flanders, 
Joseph  Lowell. 


Sergeant  Griffin"s  Detachment,  from  Dec.  13,  1814.  to  Feb.  11,    1S15. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Dan'l  Wells,  jr.. 


Jacob  Griffin. 

Corporal. 
Joshua  Mace. 
Drummer. 
Charles  Flanders. 

Fifer. 
Stephen  Gordon. 

Privates. 
Sam"l  Jackman, 


Ja's  Silloway, 
Philip  P>utler, 
John   Brewster, 
Truel  G.  Graves, 
Thos.  Morrison  , 
James  Campbell, 
Thomas  Stoddard, 
Robert  Gardner. 


5  28  APPENDIX 

Sergeant  Griffin's  Detachment,  from  Februarj'  ii  to  March  15,  1S15. 

Sergeant.  Privates. 

Jacob  Griffin.  Dan'l  Wells,  jr.. 

Corporal.  Philip  Butler, 

Joshua  Mace.  John  Brewster. 

Drummer.  True  G.  Graves, 

Chas.  Flanders.  James  Campbell, 

Fifer.  Thos.  Stoddard, 

Stephen  Gordon.  Robert  Gardner, 

Privates.  Thomas  Morrison, 

Samuel  Jackson,  Jas.  Silloway. 


V. 

ADDITIONS    AND    CORRECTIONS. 
HISTOKV    OF    NEWBURVrOKT,    VOLUME    I. 

In  1767,  James  Hudson  erected  storehouses  and  reservoirs 
on  the  northeasterly  bank  of  Merrimack  river,  in  the  town 
of  Salisbury,  where  he  began  the  manufacture  of  salt.'  The 
Pennsylvania  Magazine,  or  American  Monthly  Museum  for 
March,  1776,  has  a  sketch  of  these  salt  works,  with  an 
engraving,  from  which  the  half-tone  print  on  the  next 
page  is  taken.  The  storehouses  and  reservoirs  are  designated 
by  figures  in  the  engraving  and  the  process  of  making  salt  is 
described  as  follows  : — 

The  water  in  full  tides  is  received  through  the  sluice  No.  4  into  the 
reservoir  No.  5  (which  is  a  hundred  feet  long  and  40  broad),  where  it 
stands  in  the  sun  to  evaporate  to  a  pickle  ;  thence  it  is  pumped  into  a 
refining  cistern,  there  to  refine  ;  thence  it  is  drawn  into  pans  (which  are 
made  of  plate  iron,  rivetted  together,  about  ten  feet  square  and  twelve 
inches  deep),  there  boiled  and  skimmed  as  the  salt  makes:  then  carried 
to  the  hot  house  to  cure,  and  from  thence  to  the  store. 


1.   Hook"s  rock. 

5- 

The  reservoir. 

9- 

Boiling  house. 

2.  The  dam. 

6. 

Refining  cistern. 

10. 

Refining  cistern 

3.  The  wharf. 

7- 

Boiling  house. 

1 1. 

Dwelling  house. 

4.  A  sluice. 

8. 

Hot  house. 
13.  Salt  boat. 

12. 

Store  house. 

(The  above  account  was  handed  to  us  by  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress.)  - 

'  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  296;  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier), 
volume  I,  pages  150  note  and  151. 

■■^The  I'ennsylvania  Magazine,  March,  1776,  page  146.  A  copy  of  this  maga- 
zine, printed  in  Philadelphia,  is  in  the  Newburyport  I'ubHc  library. 

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The  Alliance,  built  for  the  United  States  government  on 
Merrimack  river,  at  Salisbury  Point,  near  the  mouth  of 
Powovv  river,  by  William  and  John  Hackett,  was  a  frigate  of 
about  nine  hundred  tons  register,  carrying  thirty-two  heavy 
guns.  Her  dimensions  were  as  follows:  125  feet  keel,  135 
feet  extreme  length  on  the  main  deck,  12  1-2  feet  depth  of 
hold  and  30  feet  beam.  She  was  launched  in  1778,  and 
named  the  Alliance  in  honor  of  the  treaty  concluded  on  the 
sixth  of  February  of  that  year  between  France  and  the  United 
States. 

She  was  fitted  for  sea  in  Newburyport,  and  sailed,  in  the 
month  of  November,  for  Boston,  where  she  received  naval 
supplies  and  shipped  a  crew  of  French  and  English  sailors. 
January  11,  1779,  she  began  her  eventful  career,  under  the 
command  of  Capt.  Pierre  Landais,  a  Frenchman,  and  sailed 
from  Boston,  carrying  General  La  P^ayette  to  his  home  in 
P^rance. 

After  a  stormy  passage,  during  which  a  portion  of  the  crew 
attempted  to  take  possession  of  the  frigate,  she  arrived  in 
the  harbor  of  Brest,  and  was  ordered  to  join  the  sc}uadron 
then  being  fitted  out  by  John  Paul  Jones  for  a  cruise  on  the 
English  coast. 

In  the  terrible  struggle  between  the  Bon  Homme  Richard 
and  the  Serapis,  in  the  month  of  September,  the  captain  of 
the  Alliance  was  accused  of  insubordination  and  failure  to 
assist  the  Bon  Homme  Richard.'  A  violent  quarrel  ensued, 
and  after  the  arrival  of  the  vessels  in  the  Texel,  Holland, 
Captain  Landais  was  discharged  from  the  navy,  and  Captain 
Jones,  assuming  command  of  the  Alliance,  sailed  on  a  cruise 
down  the  English  channel  as  far  south  as  Corunna,  Spain. ' 

In  17S0,  the  Alliance  returned  to  the  United  States,  and 
in  February,  1781,  sailed  from  Boston  under  the  command  of 
(^apt.  John  Barry,  for  L'Orient,  in  P^ ranee,  capturing  on  the 
voyage  several  valuable  prizes.     In  1782,  on  her  way  to  Ha- 

'  History  of  the  Uniletl  States  Navy  (Maclay),  volume  I,  pages  118-134. 
-  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  pages  603-605. 


532 


APPENDIX 


vanna,  she  was  chased  by  several  English  cruisers,  but  man- 
aged to  escape  with  the  loss  of  three  men  killed  and  eleven 
wounded. 

At  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war  the  Alliance  was 
sold,  and  afterwards  employed  in  the  merchant  service.  She 
made  several  voyages  from  Philadelphia  to  France,  Spain  and 
China.  In  1790,  she  was  dismantled  and  grounded  on  the 
beach  at  Petty's  island,  near  Philadelphia,  where  she  remained 
until  her  hull  was  destroyed  by  the  action  of  the  wind  and  tide.' 

June  21,  181  5,  Samuel  J.  Mills,  James  Richards,  Horatio 
Bardwell,  Daniel  Poor,  Edward  Warren  and  Benjamin  C. 
Meigs  were  ordained  in  the  P"irst  Presbyterian  meeting-house 
on  P'ederal  street,  Newburyport.  A  large  audience,  including 
nearly  two  hundred  clergymen,  attended  the  morning  service, 
and,  after  the  noon  recess,  re-assembled  to  partake  of  the 
holy  communion.^ 

On  the  twenty-third  of  October  following,  the  brig  Dryade 
sailed  from  Newburyport  for  Ceylon  and  Calcutta,  with  Rev. 
James  Richards  and  wife.  Rev.  Daniel  Poor  and  wife,  Rev. 
Horatio  Bardwell  and  wife,  Rev,  Benjamin  C.  Meigs  and 
wife  and  Rev.  Edward  Warren,  the  second  group  of  mis- 
sionaries sent  out,  by  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Foreign  Missions  to  preach  the  gospel  of  Christ  to  the 
ignorant  and  benighted  inhabitants  of  Burmah  and  Hin- 
doostan.3      Religious  services  were  held  on  the  brig  an  hour 

'  Annals  of  Philadelphia  and  Pennsylvania,  l)y  John  Y .  Watson,  volume  II, 
pages  338-340. 

2  See  Newburyport  Herald,  June  23,  1815;  The  Panoplist,  a  missionary  maga- 
zine, July,  1815,  pages  331  and  332;  also,  a  sermon  published  in  pamphlet  form, 
with  title  as  follows:  "  Paul  on  Mars  Hill  |  or  |  A  Christian  Survey  of  the  Pagan 
World  I  A  I  Sermon  Preached  at  Newburyport  June  21,  181 5  |  at  the  |  Ordination 
I  of  the  Reverend  |  Messrs.  Samuel  J.  Mills,  James  Richards  |  Edward  Warren, 
Horatio  Bardwell  |  Benjamin  C.  Meigs  and  Daniel  Poor  |  to  the  ofifice  of  |  Chris- 
tian Missionaries  |  By  Samuel  Worcester,  D.  D.  |  Pastor  of  the  Tabernacle  church 
in  Salem  |  Published  by  order  of  the  Prudential  Committee  of  the  |  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  for  Poreign  Missions  |  Andover  |  1 815 

■*  The  first  missionaries  sent  by  the  American  Board  were  ordained  in  the  Taber- 
nacle in  Salem  Pebruary  8,  1812. 


APPENDIX  533 

previous  to  her  departure,  Rev.  Samuel  Spring,  pastor  of  the 
North  Congregational  Church,  officiating.'  After  a  brief 
address  and  a  fervent  prayer  for  those  about  to  engage  in 
missionary  work,  an  original  hymn,  written  for  the  occasion, 
was  sung  by  a  chorus  of  male  and  female  voices,  the  benedic- 
tion was  pronounced,  the  last  farewells  were  spoken  and  the 
vessel,  with  sails  extended  to  catch  the  favoring  breeze,  start- 
ed on  her  long  and  perilous  voyage. 

Although  the  cutting  and  storing  of  ice  for  summer  use 
was  not  an  established  industry  in  Newburyport  until  1840, 
as  stated  on  page  226  of  the  first  volume  of  this  history,  the 
following  advertisements  indicate  that  a  limited  supply  of  that 
useful  commodity  could  be  obtained  at  a  much  earlier  date : — 

Ice  may  be  had  at  Robert  Laird's  brewery  on  Green  street  every 
morning  (Sundays  excepted),  from  six  to  eight  o'clock,  at  three  cents 
per  pound.- 

Famihes  can  be  accommodated  with  Ice  for  the  season  (on  moderate 
terms),  and  should  enough  apply  to  make  it  an  object  it  will  be  sent  ac- 
cording to  the  wish  of  those  supplied. 

Anthony  S.  Jones,  State  street.3 

In  i860,  arrangements  were  made  to  sprinkle  a  few  of  the 
streets  in  the  centre  of  the  city,  as  stated  on  page  227  of  the 
first  volume  of  this  history,  but  eleven  years  previous  to  that 
date  a  few  merchants  and  storekeepers  purchased  a  watering 
cart  that  was  used  to  keep  down  the  dust  and  make  State 
street  and  Market  square  more  attractive  during  the  summer 
months."* 

At  or  about  the  same  date  the  dwelling  houses  and  shops 
of  Newburyport  were  numbered  and  the  first  directory  pub- 
lished giving  the  names  and  residences  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  town. 

'  Newhurypoil  Herald,  Octol  er  24,  1815. 
-  Newhuryport  Herald,  August  7,  1807. 
'  Newburyport  Herald,  May  19,  1829. 
^  Daily  Evening  Union,  July  23,  1849. 


534 


APPENDIX 


The  statement,  on  page  66 1  of  the  first  volume,  and  page 
249  of  the  second  volume,  of  this  history,  that  the  brig  Harpy 
sailed  from  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  September,  18 14,  is  probably 
incorrect.  A  careful  examination  of  local  newspapers  and 
ofificial  records,  recently  made  by  Sidney  M.  Chase  of  Haver- 
hill, seems  to  prove  beyond  a  reasonable  doubt  that  the  Harpy 
sailed  from  Baltimore  for  New  York  in  April  of  that  year, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  Gregg,  and  two  or  three 
months  later  was  cruising  on  the  New  England  coast,  having 
captured,  on  the  second  of  July,  the  Princess  Elizabeth,  a 
British  packet-ship,  with  a  number  of  army  and  navy  officers, 
and  a  large  amount  of  specie  and  naval  stores.  August  10, 
1 8 14,'  the  Harpy  arrived  at  Portsmouth,  N,  H.,  where  she 
was  detained  nearly  two  months,  making  repairs  on  hull  and 
spars,  before  she  sailed,  early  in  October,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Capt.  William  Nichols  of  Newburyport,  on  a  cruise, 
returning  to  Portsmouth  on  the  twenty-sixth  or  twenty-seventh 
of  that  month,  with  sixty-five  prisoners  taken  from  two  Eng- 
lish transports  laden  with  provisions  for  the  British  army. 

In  September,  1871,  strange  and  mysterious  sights  and 
sounds  disturbed  and  annoyed  the  teacher  and  pupils  of  the 
male  primary  school  in  Charles  street,  Newburyport,  but  no 
report  was  made  to  the  school  committee  until  late  in  the 
month  of  October,  1872,  when  the  annoyance  became  more 
serious,  and  the  police  were  asked  to  investigate  and  ascer- 
tain if  possible  the  cause  of  these  disturbances. 

Many  people,  impressed  with  the  idea  that  these  sights  and 
sounds  were  of  supernatural  origin,  read  with  surprise  and 
astonishment  the  following  notice  published  in  the  Newbury- 
port Herald,  November  14,  1872  : — 

'  Extracts  from  the  log  of  the  privateer  Harpy,  giving  an  account  of  the  capture 
of  the  Princess  Elizabeth,  were  published  in  the  Tortsmouth  Intelligencer  August 
10,  and  reprinteil  in  the  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette  August  12, 
1814. 


APPENDIX  535 

The  advent  of  a  real  old-fashioned  ghost,  such  as  made  us  shudder 
and  cover  our  heads  with  the  bed  clothes  when  we  were  children,  is  an 
event  worth  recording  and  a  sensation  the  people  in  the  lower  part  of 
the  city  have  lately  experienced.  The  Male  Primary  school  on  Charles 
street  is  attended  by  about  fifty  pupils,  and  is  taught  by  Miss  Lucy  A. 
Perkins,  an  excellent  teacher,  possessing  the  confidence  of  parents  and 
the  School  Committee,  a  young  lady  who  showed  good  courage  in  a 
trying  emergency,  and  a  teacher  much  beloved  by  her  pupils.  The 
school  house  is  a  story  and  a  half  structure,  and  here  for  about  a  year 
past  there  have  been  strange  and  mysterious  occurrences.  Sounds  and 
sights  which  could  not  be  accounted  for  have  annoyed  the  teacher  and 
friglitened  the  children.  Doors  would  be  opened  apparently  without 
hands,  a  face  appear  at  the  window  and  suddenly  disappear;  sometimes 
a  hand  would  show  itself  in  the  rear  of  the  teacher's  desk,  and  no  one 
could  be  found  to  whom  the  face  and  hand  belonged  or  who  occasioned 
the  sounds.  The  teacher  said  nothing  of  these  things  until  within  a  few- 
days,  when  she  informed  a  member  of  the  School  Committee  of  the 
matter  which  was  being  circulated  through  the  city  by  the  children.  A 
day  or  two  since  some  of  the  pupils  called  the  attention  of  the  teacher 
to  the  fact  that  some  one  was  looking  into  the  room  from  the  entry. 
Miss  Perkins  turned  and  saw  a  boy,  apparently  about  a  dozen  years  old, 
who,  as  she  approached  him,  disappeared  into  the  attic.  She  followed 
him  and  made  a  grasp  at  the  form,  but  seized  nothing,  and  the  form 
disappeared  entirel)',  like  the  baseless  fabric  of  a  vision.  The  school 
exercises  were  resumed,  and  on  Tuesday  (November  12,  I1S72),  many 
persons  visited  the  room  and  saw  the  latch  of  the  door  lifted,  but  no  one 
could  be  discovered  who  raised  it. 

This  ghost  story,  however,  was  c|tiickly  e.xploded  by  the 
police  who,  having  examined  the  school  btiilding  and  some  of 
the  pupils  accustomed  to  attend  school  there,  discovered  that 
Amos  Currier,  a  young  lad  not  over  eight  or  ten  years  of  age, 
son  of  Nathaniel  Currier,  was  actively  engaged  with  two  or 
three  companions  of  about  the  same  age  in  i^roducing  these 
mysterious  sights  and  sounds. 

Meanwhile  reporters  connected  with  Boston  newspapers,  in 
search  of  a  sensation,  visited  Newburyport,  and  subsequently 
published  exaggerated  accounts  of  what  they  saw  and  heard, 
and  a  few  weeks  later  two  pamphlets,  with  the  following  title 
pages,  professing  to  give  all  the   important   facts  relating  to 


536 


APPENDIX 


the  ghost  of  the  Charles  street  schoolhouse,  were  printed  and 
widely  circulated  : — 

The  I  Haunted  School  House  |  at  Newburyport,  Mass.  |  Loring  Pub- 
Hsher  |  Corner  Washington  and  Bromfield  Streets  |  Boston  ' 

Expose  I  of  I  Newburyport  Eccentricities  |  Witches  and  Witchcraft  ] 
The  Murdered  Boy  |  and    apparition  |  of  the  |  Charles    Street    School 
House  I  By  H.  P.  Davis  Mass.^ 

At  a  meeting  of  the  school  committee,  held  Monday  even- 
ing, February  24,  1873,  the  condition  of  the  Charles  street 
primary  school  was  taken  into  consideration,  and  a  sub-com- 
mittee, previously  appointed,  reported  in  detail  the  facts  that 
had  been  discovered  after  careful  investigation,  and  recom- 
mended that  a  vacation  of  three  or  four  weeks  be  allowed 
Miss  Perkins,  the  teacher,  and  a  substitute  employed  to  take 
her  place.  This  report,  signed  by  Samuel  J.  Spalding,  pastor 
of  the  VVhitefield  Congregational  church  and  society,  and 
George  D.  Johnson,  rector  of  St.  Paul's  church,  gave  a  brief 
summary  of  the  facts  established  by  the  investigation,  and 
closed  with  the  following  statement  : — 

After  deducting  the  baseless  and  purely  sensational  stories  put  afloat 
and  the  exaggerations  which  the  excited  imaginations  of  credulous 
persons  have  made,  and  sights  and  sounds  that  can  be  accounted  for  by 
the  most  simple  principles  of  natural  philosophy,  and  by  the  tricks  of 
mischievous  boys  (quite  as  natural),  there  is  hardly  enough  left  out  of 
which  to  make  a  small  ghost.' 

The  recommendations  of  the  stib-committee  were  subse- 
quently adopted.  Miss  Perkins  was  granted  a  vacation  of 
several  weeks,  for  rest  and  recreation,  after  the  severe  mental 
strain  that  had  seriously  impaired  her  health  and  strength, 
and  the  Charles  street  school  was  placed  in  charge  of  Nathan 

^  Copyright  entered,  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1873,  t)y  A.  K. 
Loring. 

^  Copyright  entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1873,  ^'  ^b  I'-  Davis. 
3  Newburyport  Herald,  February  25,  1873. 


APPENDIX 


537 


A.  Moulton.  The  ordinary  routine  of  school  work  was  re- 
sumed ;  the  mysterious  sig-hts  and  sounds  ceased,  and  all 
traces  of  ghostly  visitors  disappeared. 

A  few  years  later  the  school  building  was  sold  by  order  of 
the  committee  on  public  property.  It  was  repaired  and  remod- 
eled, and  is  now  a  comfortable  and  convenient  dwelling  house. 

Thursday  afternoon,  May  lO,  1906,  the  cash  and  other 
accounts  of  the  city  treasurer  were  examined  and  a  deficit  of 
several  thousand  dollars  discovered.  After  a  brief  conference 
with  the  mayor,  Hon.  William  F.  Houston,  the  treasurer  was 
arrested  and  committed  to  jail  by  order  of  Judge  Thomas  C. 
Simpson  of  the  municipal  court. 

An  expert  accountant,  employed  to  investigate  the  books 
and  accounts  in  the  treasurer's  office,  subsequently  reported 
that  the  shortage  in  cash  amounted  to  six  thousand,  eight 
hundred  dollars  and  that  city  notes  to  the  amount  of  eighty 
thousand  dollars  had  been  illegally  issued.' 

September  27,  1906,  James  V.  Felker,  treasurer  of  the 
city  of  Newburyport,  was  indicted  for  embezzlement.  His 
plea  of  not  guilty  was  changed  to  "  guilty  "  at  the  session  of 
the  superior  court  held  in  Salem  on  the  eighth  of  October 
following,  but  judgment  was  deferred  until  February  20, 
1907,  when  he  was  sentenced  to  not  less  than  four,  nor  more 
than  six  years  in  the  state  prison  at  Charlestown,  one  day  in 
solitary  confinement. 

The  statement  on  page  (^"jG  of  the  first  volume  of  this  his- 
tory that  the  ofifice  of  deputy  collector  in  the  custom  house  at 
Newburyport  was  not  established  until  1841  is  incorrect.  The 
following-named  persons  held  that  office  previous  to  the  date 
named  : — 

Michael  Little.  from  1789  to   1821. 

Solomon  A.  Currier,       ••      1821    "    1829. 
Charles  Titcomb,  "      1829    "    1841. 

Ne\\l)Ui-yport  Herald,  May  26,  1906. 


538  APPENDIX 

The  date,  July  4,  1827,  in  the  tenth  Hne  from  the  top  of 
page  418,  should  read  July  4,  1837. 

The  words  "  near  Parker  river,"  in  the  sixth  line  from  the 
bottom  of  page  439,  should  be  stricken  out,  and  the  following 
words  inserted:  "on  the  southerly  side  of  the  Green." 

The  resignation  of  Col.  Edward  Wiggles  worth  was  accepted 
March  19,  1779,  and  not  March  19,  1776,  as  stated  near  the 
bottom  of  page  584. 


VI. 

ADDITIONS    AND    CORRECTIONS. 
HISTOKV    OF    NEWRURVI'ORT,    VOLUME    II. 

The  statement,  on  page  15  of  this  volume,  that  the  area 
of  Newburyport,  at  the  present  time,  is  eighteen  square  miles, 
equivalent  to  eleven  thousand  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres 
of  land  and  water,  is  probably  incorrect.  A  table  in  the 
appendix  to  the  Physical  Geography  of  Essex  County,  by 
John  Henry  Sears,  gives  the  area  of  the  city  as  stated  above, 
but  recent  measurements  and  mathematical  computations 
made  by  the  harbor  and  land  commissioners  of  the  state 
of  Massachusetts  reduce  the  number  of  square  miles  to 
twelve  and  eighty-five  one-hundredths,  equivalent  to  eighty- 
two  hundred  and  twenty-four  acres  of  land  and  water,  in- 
cluding highways,  ponds,  swamps,  rivers  and  harbor. 

The  date,  November  2,  1837,  on  the  second  line  from  the 
bottom  of  page  17,  of  this  volume,  should  read  October  31, 
1837. 

The  Plum  Island,  now  Newburyport,  life-saving  station,  was 
established  in  1874,  as  stated  on  page  21  of  this  volume. 
The  following-named  persons  have  been  keepers  of  the  station 
from  that  date  to  the  present  time  : — 

Robert  Floyd,  from  Oct.    24,  1874,  to  March  12,  1877. 

Francis  L.  Coffin, 

James  W.  Willett, 

George  F.  Woodman, 

James  W.  Elliott, 

Charles  W.  Noyes, 

Thomas  J.  Maddock, 

539 


•'      Mar. 

20, 

1877, 

K 

"      Nov. 

4, 

1879, 

"   Dec.       2,  1880 

"     Dec. 

1 1) 

1 880, 

"  April       I,  1882 

"     April 

13, 

1882, 

"   Nov.       3,  1894 

"      Dec. 

14, 

1 894, 

'   July       21,  1896 

'     July 

22, 

1896,    ' 

'  the  present  time 

540 


APPENDIX 


In  the  note  at  the  bottom  of  page  2 1 2  of  this  volume  the 
name  "William  Wesley  Proiit  "  should  read  William  Wel- 
stead  Prout,  and  the  name  "  Elizabeth  Fouquet  "  should 
read  Mary  Jane  Fouquet. 

Robert  Jenkins  and  Mary  Jane  Fouquet  were  married  June 
26,  1803,  and  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

Mary,  born  March  8,  1804. 

Robert,  "  February  17,  1805. 

Mary  Jane,  "  Aug.  21,  1807  ;  married  Stephen  W.  Marston,  esq. 

EHzabeth,  "  Sept.  ig,  1809;  died  June  19,  1892. 

Henrietta,  "  Sept.  6,  181 1  ;  died  March  20,  1875,  unmarried. 

Lydia  Ann,  "  Nov.  16,  1814;  married  Lemuel  S.  Williams. 

Sarah,  "  Nov.  7,  1820;  died  March  16,  1900. 

Robert  Jenkins  died  in  Worcester  October  28,  1847.  His 
widow,  Mary  Jane  (Fouquet)  Jenkins,  died  in  Brookline  Jan- 
uary 7,  1866.' 

Marcy,  or  "  Marcia,"  as  the  name  is  frequently  spelled  in 
the  town  records,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Toppan) 
O'Brien,  was  born  in  Newburyport  March  6,  1784,  as  stated 
on  page  222  of  this  volume.  She  married  Rev.  Jeremiah 
Chaplin  of  Danvers  April  16,  1806. 

When  John  Quincy  Adams  was  a  student-at-law  in  the 
office  of  Theophilus  Parsons  he  wrote,  as  stated  on  page  263 
of  this  volume,  a  poem  setting  forth  the  whims  and  follies  of 
some  of  the  young  ladies  prominent  in  the  social  life  of  New- 
buryport. Manuscript  copies  of  this  poem  were  privately 
circulated  and  created  considerable  excitement,  especially 
among  those  who  considered  themselves  unjustly  criticised. 
It  was  printed,  without  the  author's  consent,  in  the  Brother 
Jonathan,  the  weekly  issue  of  the  Daily  Tatler,   published  in 

1  See  gravestones  in  Oak  Hill  cemeteiy,  Newburj'port. 


APPENDIX 


541 


New  York,  in  1839.'  Since  that  date  it  has  been  repubhshed 
several  times.- 

It  is  impossible  to  give,  with  absolute  accuracy,  the  names 
of  the  young  ladies  described  in  this  poem,  or  identif}'  them, 
beyond  a  reasonable  doubt,  with  the  fictitious  characters  they 
are  supposed  to  represent,  but  some  biographical  and  genealog- 
ical facts  relating  to  them  have  been  discovered  and  are 
printed  in  the  footnotes. ^ 

A  carefully  corrected  and  unabridged  copy  of  the  poem 
reads  as  follows  : — 

A     VISION. 

Fatigued  with  labor,  and  with  care  oppressed, 

At  once  my  mind  and  body  sought  for  rest ; 

The  drowsy  god  upon  my  aching  head 

With  Hberal  hand  his  friendly  poppies  shed  ; 

When  lo  !  before  me  wondrous  scenes  appeared — 

Strange  things  I  saw  and  stranger  things  I  heard. 

(Jn  puiple  pinions  borne,  the  god  of  Love, 

With  rapid  flight  descended  from  above  ; 

His  golden  cjuiver,  by  a  ribbon  slung, 

In  graceful  ease  across  his  shoulder  hung  ; 

The  fatal  bow,  his  ensign  of  command, 

With  dire  intent  he  wielded  in  his  hand. 

He  saw  me  first,  and  took  a  feathered  dart, 

Prepared  his  bow,  and  levelled  at  my  heart  ; 

I  turn"d  around,  his  p:  /sture  I  espied  : 

'■  O,  spare  me,  Cupid,  cruel  god  !  "   I  cried, 

"  Behold  around  you  swarms  of  youthful  swains, 

The  blood  of  passion  boiling  in  their  veins, 

'Tis  theirs  from  love  to  gather  perfect  bliss. 

On  beauty's  lip  to  print  the  burning  kiss  : 

1  Newburyport  Daily  Herald,  Decemjjer  25,  1S39,  and  June  30,  1S64. 

'■^  Poems  of  Religion  and  Society,  by  John  (^)uincy  Adams  (1853),  pages  109- 
116;  Saturday  Evening  Union,  August  26,  1854;  Newburyport  Daily  Herald, 
July  15,  1864. 

■'  See  extract  from  an  address  by  Samuel  Swetl  before  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  .Society  of  Boston,  published  in  the  Newburj-port  Daily  Herald  Sep- 
tember 2J,  1864,  and  a  brief  reply  by  Josephine,  widow  of  James  Morss,  pub- 
lished in  the  same  paper  October  5,  1864. 


542 


APPENDIX 

'Tis  theirs  to  find  enjoyment  in  a  sigh, 

And  read  their  fortune  in  a  virgin's  eye  : 

But  me,  whom  nature  formed  without  an  art. 

To  win  the  soul  or  captivate  the  heart — 

Me,  whom  the  Graces  view  with  stern  disdain, 

As  scarcely  fit  to  join  the  Muses'  train  ; 

From  me  what  trophies  could'st  thou  hope  to  raise  r' 

So  poor  a  conquest  who  would  deign  to  praise  ? 

Bv  Cupid's  hand  should  I  be  doomed  to  bleed  ? 

Not  even  Cupid  would  avow  the  deed  : 

While  prostrate  millions  bow  before  thy  shrine 

With  willing  hearts,  thou  canst  not  wish  for  mine."' 

"  Mistaken  youth  ! "'  the  wanton  god  replied, 
"  To  think  that  Love  will  e'er  submit  to  Pride  ; 
Though  wiUing  thousands  call  upon  my  name, 
Though  prostrate  millions  celebrate  my  fame. 
If  one  proud  heart  my  empire  could  despise, 
One  heart  defy  the  power  of  beauty's  eyes, 
My  useless  bow  at  once  I  would  destroy. 
Nor  ever  more  one  feathered  dart  employ ; 
My  mercy  then  in  vain   you  would  implore. 
Your  peace  of  mind  it  never  could  restore. 
And  yet  some  merit  I  will  grant  thy  plea. 
And  in  thy  favor  soften  the  decree. 
Of  all  the  fair  that  grace  the  verdant  plain. 
Choose  for  thyself  the  object  of  thy  pain. 
Should'st  thou  prefer  the  beauties  of  the  face, 
Or  in  the  form  admire  peculiar  grace — 
Should  sparkling  eyes  inspire  a  pleasing  flame, 
Or  rosy  cheeks  thy  fond  attention  claim — 
Whatever  charm  thy  fancy  can  suggest. 
In  some  kind  virgin  thou  may'st  still  be  blest. 
For  in  the  search  we  possibly  may  find 
Some  who  possess  the  beauties  of  the  mind." 

He  ceased  to  speak,  and  waved  his  potent  wand — 
The  virgin  throng  arose  at  his  command. 
Unnumbered  beauties  stood  before  my  view. 
Bright  as  the  sunbeam  on  the  morning  dew — 
The  short,  the  tall,  the  fair,  the  brown  appeared. 
The  prude  that  pouted,  the  coquette  that  leered, 
The  timid  maid  just  blooming  at  fifteen. 
And  the  stale  virgin  withered,  pale  and  lean. 


APPENDIX  543 

With  all  the  charms  of  beauty  richly  fraught, 

LuciNUA'  first  my  close  attention  caught : 

A  faultless  person  and  a  lovely  mind 

I  found,  with  wonder,  were  in  her  combined ; 

Deficient  only  in  a  single  part. 

She  wanted  nothing,  but  a  feeling  heart. 

Calm  and  unruftied  as  a  summer  sea, 

From  passion's  gales  Lucinda's  breast  was  free  : 

A  faithless  lover  she  may  well  defy. 

Recall  her  heart,  nor  breathe  a  single  sigh — ■ 

And  should  a  second  prove  inconstant  too. 

She  changes  on  till  she  can  find  one  true. 

Belinda-  next  advances  with  a  stride, 
A  compound  strange  of  vanity  and  pride, 
Around  her  face  no  wanton  Cupids  play. 
Her  tawny  skin  defies  the  god  of  day — 
Loud  was  her  laugh,  undaunted  was  her  look. 
And  folly  seemed  to  dictate  what  she  spoke  ; 
In  vain  the  poefs  and  musician's  art 
Combined  to  move  the  passions  of  her  heart ; 
Belinda's  voice  like  grating  hinges  groans. 
And  in  harsh  thunder  roars  a  lover's  moans. 

I  turned  away — the  fair  Narcissa3  smiled. 
Her  winning  softness  all  my  soul  beguiled  ; 
My  heart  with  rapture  dwelt  upon  her  charms, 
And  hoped  to  clasp  her  beauties  in  my  arms: 
But  soon  I  found  these  ardent  hopes  were  vain — 
Narcissa  viewed  my  passion  with  disdain. 
And  can  the  sex  by  Nature  formed  for  love. 
Each  soft  impression  from  the  heart  remove  ? 
Can  idle  vanity  betray  the  mind 
To  wish,  and  even  strive  to  be  unkind. 
Use  cunning  art  to  raise  the  lover's  sigh, 
Then  view  his  woes  with  a  disdainful  eye  ? 

1  Miss  Lucy  Knight.  See  Life  in  a  New  England  Town,  pages  95  and  114, 
She  married,  May  12,  1788,  John  Gregory'  of  Boston. 

^  Miss  Rebecca  Cazneau,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  Cazneau,  afterward 
Mrs.  Alwyn.     Life  in  a  New  England  Town,   pages  67  and  120. 

'  Miss  Mary  Newhall,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Newhall.  She  married, 
October  17,  1793,  Rev.  Ebenezer  Cofifin  of  Newbury.  Robert  S.  Coffin,  the 
"  Boston  Bard,"  was  her  son. 


544  APPENDIX 

Yes,  there  are  such,  but  when  avenging  time 

Withers  their  charms  and  strips  them  of  their  prime, 

Their  former  follies  they  in  vain  lament, 

Of  former  cruelties  in  vain  repent : 

Their  fate,  in  one  short  hour  may  be  comprised  ; 

While  young  they're  hated,  and  when  old  despised. 

Vanessa'  came,  a  smile  adorned  her  face, 

Her  words  were  sweetness  and  her  voice  was  grace  ; 

No  raging  passions  burn  within  her  breast. 

Not  even  envy  can  disturb  her  rest. 

Her  lovely  mind  a  rival's  worth  can  own, 

Nor  think  all  charm  confined  to  her  alone  : 

And  if  the  fair  Vanessa  could  be  taught 

To  store  her  mind  with  larger  funds  of  thought. 

Her  volubility  of  tongue  repress, 

Think  somewhat  more,  and  prattle  somewhat  less. 

The  palm  of  excellence  she  well  might  claim, 

And  Love  himself  might  tune  the  voice  of  Fame. 

But  lo  !  CORINNA  2  next  in  rank  appears, 
And  riots  in  the  bloom  of  early  years, 
With  innate  warmth  of  constitution  blest. 
Her  greatest  pleasure  is  to  be  caressed — 
Her  lips  sip  rapture  from  an  amorous  kiss. 
Viewed  as  a  pledge  of  more  endearing  bliss  ; 
But  frugal  Nature  wisely  did  dispense 
With  so  much  love  a  slender  share  of  sense  ; 
For  Nature  grants  but  to  a  chosen  few 
To  taste  the  joys  of  mind  and  body  too. 
Gigantic  limbs,  in  painful  buckram  cased. 
Assume  the  honors  of  a  slender  waist : 
But  ah  !  what  power  of  buckram  can  restrain 
The  wild  effusions  of  a  thoughtless  brain? 

Nerea  .^   next  advances  in  the  throng, 
And  affectation  leads  the  maid  along, 

'  Miss  Frances  Jenkins.     She  married  William  Farris  December  15,  1789. 

2  Miss  Harriet  Bradbury,  daughter  of  Hon.  Theophilus  Bradbury.  She  married 
Thomas  Woodbridge   Hooper  September  17,  1792. 

•■'  Miss  Ann  Jenkins,  sister  of  Miss  Frances  Jenkins.  She  married  Thomas 
Thomas,  jr.,  June  4,  1795. 


APPENDIX  545 

With  studied  step  she  steers  amid  the  band, 
And  holds  a  senseless  novel  in  her  hand  ; 
Fair  is  her  face  and  elegant  her  form, 
Her  manners  gentle  and  her  heart  is  warm. 
Why  will  Nerea  spend  her  youthful  days 
In  wild  romances  and  insipid  plays? 
Where  idle  tales  in  flimsy  language  told 
Exhibit  folly  in  a  pleasing  mould. 
Fictitious  evils  enervate  the  breast, 
Deprave  the  morals  and  corrupt  the  taste. 

Almira'  next  in  dubious  form  is  seen, 
Her  face  is  female,  masculine  her  mein, 
With  equal  skill  no  mortal  can  pretend 
The  varied  faults  of  either  sex  to  blend  : 
To  woman's  weakness  add  the  pride  of  man, 
And  wield  alike  the  dagger  and  the  fan. 
In  fairest  forms  can  evil  passions  dwell  ? 
The  virgin's  breast  can  envy's  venom  swell  ? 
Can  malice  dart  her  rage  from  beauty's  eye. 
Or  give  the  snow-white  cheek  a  crimson  dye  ? 
Where,  then,  are  all  the  tender  virtues  flown. 
And  why  was  strength  dispensed  to  man  alone  ? 
The  lamb  to  vie  with  lions  ne'er  pretend. 
The  timid  dove  with  eagles  ne'er  contend  ; 
Attempt  not  then,  ye  fair,  to  rule  by  fear. 
The  surest  female  weapon  is  a  tear. 

Behold  Statira's  -  ancient  beauties  rise. 
With  conscious  wit,  and  wisdom's  glancing  eyes. 

'  Miss  Catherine  Jones.  She  married  William  Brown  April  2,  1793,  and  re- 
moved to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  she  died  in  1863. 

Some  writers  claim  that  Miss  Elizabeth  Harris  Hooper  was  described  under  the 
fictitious  name  of  "  Almira."  She  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Har- 
ris) Hooper,  and  was  born  January  31,  1772.  She  died  November  2,  1795,  and 
was  buried  in  .St.  Paul's  churchyard. 

■■^  Miss  Mercy  Phillips,  born  in  1755,  married,  November  18,  1789,  Rev.  Ed- 
ward Bass,  D.  D. ;    his  first  wife  having  died  six  months  previous  to  that  date. 

Some  newspaper  writers,  however,  assert  that  the  lines  addressed  to  Statira  were 
intended  to  describe  Miss  .Sarah  Rol  erts,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  Roberts, 
who  was  born  in  Newbury  December  i,  1751;  died  in  Newbur)'port  January  17, 
1798;    and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard. 


546 


APPENDIX 

With  stern  disdain  she  views  the  youthful  race, 

Nor  heeds  the  blooming  honors  of  the  face. 

Autumnal  roses  she  alone  admires, 

And  grey-haired  charms  excite  her  warmest  fires. 

Nay,  good  Statira,  look  not  thus  askance, 

And  oh  !  forbear  that  killing,  sidelong  glance. 

Contending  wittlings  to  assert  their  power 

May  look  like  threat'ning  clouds  before  a  shower. 

But  maiden  modesty  may  well  disdain 

To  use  such  arts  :  for  all  such  arts  are  vain. 

Still  must  thy  face  express  thy  secret  mind, 

Where  friends  with  grief,  and  foes  with  pleasure,  find, 

Instead  of  art,  which  Nature  has  denied. 

The  grin  of  envy  and  the  sneer  of  pride.' 

To  beauty  strangers,  destitute  of  grace, 
With  varied  nothings  pictured  in  their  face, 
A  motley  crowd  in  quick  succession  came. 
Distinguished  only  by  a  differing  name. 
'Till  breaking  forth  in  all  the  pride  of  day, 
The  sun  of  beauty  drove  those  clouds  away. 
With  graceful  step  the  lovely  Clara  ^  moved  ; 
I  saw,  I  gazed,  I  listened,  and  I  loved — 
The  fleeting  vision  vanished  from  my  mind. 
But  love  and  Clara  still  remained  behind. 
Ve  faithful  lovers  whom  the  muse  in.spires. 
Who  feel  the  rapture  of  poetic  fires. 
Whose  voices  sing  with  more  than  human  skill. 
The  silent  grotto  and  the  murmuring  rill, 
Whose  tender  strains  describe  with  matchless  art 
The  soft  emotions  of  a  feeling  heart : 
Come,  and  before  the  lovely  Clara's  shrine. 
The  mingled  tribute  of  your  praises  join  : 
My  Clara's  charms  no  vulgar  poets  claim. 
No  servile  bard  that  clips  the  wings  of  fame, 

1  The  stanza  beginning  "  Behold  Statira' s  ancient  beauties  rise,"  appears  in 
several  newspaper  versions  of  this  poem,  but  it  was  accidentally  or  purposely  omit- 
ted when  the  poems  of  John  Quincy  Adams  were  collected  and  published  in  a 
small  volume,  in  1853. 

2  Miss  Mary  Frazier,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth  (Ballantine)  Frazier,  born 
March  9,  1774;  afterwards  Mrs.  Daniel  Sargent.  See  Life  in  a  New  England 
Town,  page  169,  and  Recollections  of  Samuel  Breck,  pages  119-121. 


APPENDIX  547 

To  vile  acrostics  tunes'  unmeaning  lays, 
Or  in  a  rebus  centres  all  his  praise. 
The  partial  gods  presiding  at  her  birth 
Gave  Clara  beauty  when  they  gave  her  worth  : 
Kind  Nature  formed  of  purest  white  her  skin, 
An  emblem  of  her  innocence  within  ; 
And  called  on  cheerful  Health  her  aid  to  lend, 
The  roses'  colors  in  her  cheeks  to  blend, 
While  ^'enus  added,  to  complete  the  fair. 
The  eyes  blue  languish  and  the  golden  hair : 
But  far  superior  charms  exalt  her  mind. 
Adorned  by  nature,  and  by  art  refined. 
Hers  are  the  lasting  beauties  of  the  heart. 
The  charms  which  Nature  only  can  impart  ; 
The  generous  purpose  and  the  soul  sincere — 
Meek  sorrow's  sigh  and  gentle  pity's  tear. 
Ah  1  lovely  Clara,  can  a  heart  like  thine 
Accept  the  tribute  of  a  muse  like  mine  ? 
Should  these  poor  lays  attract  thy  beauteous  eye, 
Say,  would  they  raise  one  sympathetic  sigh  ? 
For  thee  my  heart  with  vivid  ardor  glows, 
For  thee  my  blood  with  rapid  impulse  flows. 
By  da}'  thy  beauties  are  my  darling  theme. 
By  night  thy  image  sweetens  many  a  dream, 
On  thee  thy  ardent  lover's  fate  depends. 
From  thee  the  evil  or  the  boon  descends: 
Thy  choice  alone  can  make  my  anxious  breast 
Supremely  wretched,  or  supremely  blest. 

Previous  to  the  capture  of  Louisbourg  by  Sir  William  Pep- 
perell,  in  1745,  the  Isles  of  Shoals  were  frequently  attacked 
and  plundered  by  French  privateers  and  English  freebooters, 
and  it  became  necessary  to  build  a  fort  there  for  the  protec- 
tion of  the  inhabitants. 

On  the  west  point  of  Star  island,  on  an  eminence,  are  the  ruins  of  a 
small  fort  which  was  defended  formerly  by  nine  cannon,  four  pounders. 
The  fort  was  dismantled  at  the  commencement  of  the  late  [Revolution- 
ary] war,  and  the  cannon  carried  to  Newburyport.' 

1  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Collections  (First  Series),  volume  N'lII,  page 
246. 


548  APPENDIX 

In  consequence  of  the  exposed  condition  of  the  islands  and 
their  Hability  to  capture  by  English  armed  vessels,  the  in- 
habitants were  removed  to  the  mainland  in  i  T]^,  and  the 
cannon  taken  from  the  fort  to  Portsmouth,  and  thence  to 
Newburyport.' 

After  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  many  hardy  and 
vigorous  fishermen  removed  to  the  islands  and  devoted  their 
time  and  attention  to  catching  and  curing  fish.  They  soon 
became  demoralized,  intemperate  and  vicious,  living  in  open 
violation  of  the  laws  of  God  and  man.  Applying  to  Dudley 
Atkins  Tyng,  who  was  collector  of  customs  in  Newburyport 
from  1795  to  1803,  for  licenses  to  enable  them  to  carry  on 
their  business  successfully,  he  urged  them  to  abstain  from 
the  immoderate  use  of  spirituous  liquors  and  curb  their  evil 
passions  and  appetites/ 

With  the  assistance  of  Rev.  Dr.  Morse  of  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  secretary  of  the  society  for  the  propagation  of  the 
gospel,  Mr.  Tyng  employed  a  missionary  to  hold  religious 
services  on  the  islands,  beginning  April  27,  1799.  Aided  by 
men  of  wealth  in  Boston,  Salem,  Exeter  and  Portsmouth,  he 
sent  carpenters  and  masons  from  Newburyport  and  built  a 
stone  chapel  on  Star  island,  which  was  dedicated  November  14, 
1800.^ 

Rev.  Josiah  Stevens  was  for  several  years  the  ofificiating 
clergyman,  preaching  to  a  good-sized  congregation  on  Sunday, 
and  during  the  remainder  of  the  week  teaching  the  children 
how  to  read  and  write.  In  1802,  a  dwelling  house  was  erect- 
ed "  for  the  use  of  the  minister  or  missionary  residing  on  the 
Isles  of  Shoals  forever. "■♦ 

January  2,  1826,  the  interior  of  the  chapel  was  partially 
destroyed  by  fire.     It  was  repaired  during  the  following  sum- 

^  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  565. 

*  For  biographical  sketch  of  Dudley  A.  Tyng,  see  History  of  Newburyport  (Cur- 
rier), volume  II,  pages  267  and  268. 

*  Newburyport  Herald,  August  6,  1841. 

**  Essex  Institute  Historical  Collections,  volume  XXXV,  pages  239-241. 


APPENDIX  549 

mer,  and  since  that  date  has  been  kept  in  good  order  and 
condition  by  the  occasional  contributions  of  visitors  who 
attend  divine  service  on  the  island  during-  the  hot  summer 
months. 


The  "Epitaphs"  written  by  Hannah  F.  Gould,  for  the 
entertainment  of  personal  friends,  as  stated  on  page  3 1 3  of 
this  volume,  were  privately  circulated  in  Newburyport  previ- 
ous to  the  year  1825.  Several  manuscript  copies  have  been 
preserved,  some  with  thirty-two,  others  with  thirty-four,  and 
one,  in  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.,  with  thirty-six 
epitaphs.  These  copies  vary  slightly  in  minor  details,  owing 
to  a  lack  of  care  in  transcribing  them. 

Ten  years  after  the  death  of  Miss  Gould  the  epitaphs  were 
printed  and  sold  in  pamphlet  form,  without  note  or  comment. 
They  are  now  re-published,  wdth  brief  biographical  foot-notes 
to  assist  the  reader  in  identifying  the  persons  whose  peculiar- 
ities were  described  and  mildly  caricatured  nearly  a  century 
asfo. 


.•\SAHEL    HUNTINGTON.' 

Here  Huntington  hid. 

He"s  chewed  his  last  quid 
And  all  his  cigars  are  done  burning: 

If  where  he  goes 

No  tobacco  plant  grows. 
We  shall  surely  behold  him  returning. 


1  Born  in  Topsfield,  Mass.,  July  23,  1798.  He  graduated  at  Vale  college  in 
18 19,  and  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  John  Scott,  Newburj^port. 
Removing  to  Salem,  Mass.,  he  was  appointed  district  attorney  and  afterward  clerk 
of  the  courts  for  Essex  county.     He  died  in  Salem  September  5,  1870. 


550  APPENDIX 

EPHRAIM    \V.    ALLEN.' 

Here  fame  sits  weeping 

O'er  him  that  lies  sleeping 
So  sound  that  her  trump  cannot  rouse  him  : 

He  has  saved  from  the  press 

One  fair  sheet  for  his  dress, 
Which  is  all  that  his  office  allowed  him. 

JOHN   ANDREWS.-  * 

Here  a  stationer  lies, 

With  his  ticket  and  prize, 
His  sealing-wax,  wafers  and  feather; 

Who  for  all  his  mild  looks. 

And  his  paper  and  books, 
Could  not  keep  soul  and  body  together. 

BAILEY    BARTLETT.3 

Bailey  Bartlett  lies  here. 

And  the  spring  of  the  year 
Was  the  time  he  took  to  pop  off  in  ; 

Tread  lightly  o'er  his  bed. 

For  a  mellower  head 
Never  filled  up  one  end  of  a  coffin. 

'  Born  in  Attleborough,  Bristol  county,  Mass.,  April  9,  1779.  He  came  to 
Newburj'port  at  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  was  employed  in  the 
printing  office  of  the  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country'  Ciazette  for  several  months. 
August  4,  1 801,  he  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the  paper,  and  was  the 
managing  editor  and  pubhsher  until  1832.  He  married,  December  26,  1S04, 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Stickney  of  New  Rowley.  He  died  in 
Newburyport  March  9,  1846. 

2  Son  of  Rev.  John  and  Margaret  (Wigglesworth)  Andrews.  He  was  born  in 
Newburyport  November  25,  1797;  and  married  Margaret  Rand  May  II,  1830. 
Wm.  B.  Allen  &  Co.  sold,  March  21,  1817,  to  Charles  Ewer  and  John  Andrews, 
jr.,  all  their  stock  of  books  and  stationaiy.  The  firm  of  Ewer  &  Andrews  was 
dissolved  February'  13,  1818,  and  on  the  seventeenth  of  P'ebruarj-  following 
John  Andrews,  jr.,  and  Ebenezer  Wheelwright,  jr.,  began  business,  as  book- 
sellers and  stationers,  under  the  firm-name  of  Andrews  &  Wheelwright.  Mr. 
Andrews  was  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  afterwards  cashier  of  the  Mechanicks 
Bank.     He  died  May  16,  1874. 

^  Son  of  Hon.  Bailey  and  Peggy  Leonard  (White)  Bartlett.  He  was  born  in 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  October  20,  1794,  and  was  a  dealer  in  dr)-  goods  on  State  street, 
Newburyport,  for  several  years,  removing  to  Lawrence  in  1S23.  He  married 
Caroline  Long  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H. 


APPENDIX  551 


EBENEZER    BAILEY.' 

Here  lies  Eben  Bailey 
His  Murray  and  Paley 

He"s  quietly  laid  on  the  shelf : 
He's  set  his  last  sum, 
Sent  his  last  scholar  home. 

And  now  he's  s:one  home  himself. 


JOSEPH    CHAMBERLIN.- 

Here  Chamberlin  is  press'd 

With  the  turf  on  his  breast, 
But  his  nose  is  too  little  to  feel  it ; 

'Tis  doubted  by  many 

If  he  ever  had  any, 
As  he  always  took  care  to  conceal  it. 


GEORGE    CROSS. 3 

Here  George  was  interred 
Without  saying  a  word, 

For  he  never  was  given  to  sound  : 
He  has  made  his  escape 
From  the  yard-stick  and  tape, 

To  measure  himself  on  the  ground. 


'  .Son  of  Paul  and  Emma  (Carr)  Bailey,  lie  was  born  June  25,  1794,  in  that 
part  of  Newbuiy  now  included  within  the  limits  of  West  Newbury,  and  in  1 820 
was  the  teacher  of  a  private  school  in  Newburj'port.  He  married,  May  13,  1824, 
Adeline,  daughter  of  Allen  Dodge,  removed  to  Boston,  and  afterwards  to  Lynn, 
where  he  died  August  5,  1839. 

-  Joseph  Chamberlin  had  a  private  school  for  young  ladies  on  Charter  street  in 
May,  1 82 1.  He  afterward  removed  his  school  to  Green  street,  occupying  the 
school  building  previously  occupied  by  Ebenezer  Bailey.  He  probably  removed 
from  Nesvburj-port  previous  to  1830, 

■'  Son  of  William  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  Cross.  He  was  bom  in  Newburjport  Janu- 
ar)'  21,  1795;  married,  November  17,  1835,  Lucy  Ann  Brown  of  Newburyport, 
and  removed  to  Troy,  N.  V.  In  1823,  he  kept  a  dr)--goods  store  on  State  street; 
and  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son,  in  Jamaica  Plain,  July  i,  1875. 


552  APPENDIX 


ROBERT  CROSS. 


Here  lies  Robert  Cross, 

To  our  sorrow  and  loss, 
15efore  he  had  entered  an  action  ; 

He  has  taken  his  till 

Of  law-book  and  quill. 
And  retired  from  the  world  and  its  faction. 


GAISFORD    GILES. - 

Here  Gaisford  the  just 

Gives  himself  up  to  dust, 
From  which  he  would  never  be  parted  ; 

He  ever  would  wrestle 

With  mortar  and  pestle, 
'Till  he  Sfot  back  to  earth  where  he  started. 


JACOB    GERRISH.3 

Here  Jacob  was  cast 

From  his  ladder  at  last, 
Taking  care  that  the  earth  should  not  dirt  him 

Though  by  death  he  was  found 

On  the  uppermost  ground, 
The  fall  was  too  triflino-  to  hurt  him. 


^  Son  of  William  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  Cross.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  July 
3,  1799;  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1819,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1823; 
married,  in  1828,  Mary  Cabot  Tyng,  daughter  of  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  and  died 
in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  November  9,  1859. 

'■^  Son  of  Rev.  John  Giles,  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Newbury- 
port, from  1803  to  1824.  Gaisford  Giles  was  an  apothecary.  In  1821,  his  store 
was  on  State  street,  two  doors  above  the  Newburyport  Bank.  In  1830,  he  re- 
moved to  Market  square,  taking  the  store  formerly  occupied  by  Dr.  Aaron  Davis. 
He  died  April  5,  1833,  aged  thirty-five. 

^  Son  of  Stephen  and  Ruth  (Page)  Gerrish.  He  was  born  in  Newburj',  Mass., 
in  1784,  married  Harriet  Toppan  September  7,  1814,  and  died  in  Newburyport 
April  19,  1843. 


APPENDIX  553 

JOHN  GREENLEAF.' 

Here  lies  little  John  : 

When  the  turke3's  were  gone, 
And  the  pies  and  puddings  were,  too. 

As  there  was  nothing  for  eating 

He  thought  of  retreating, 
For  then  he  had  nothing  to  do. 

BENJAMIN    A.    GOULD. "= 

Here  Benjamin  A. 

P'ut  his  Latin  away, 
To  have  a  long  day  of  thanksgiving : 

His  tongue  is  now  dead. 

Like  the  language  he  read 
\\'hen  he  mingled  himself  with  the  living. 

JAMES    CALDWELL.-^ 

'Tis  here  gallant  James 

Has  laid  his  last  claims, 
And  left  all  the  ladies  behind  him  ; 

He  has  fluttered  about, 

Got  himself  tired  out, 
And  hid  where  no  maiden  can  tind  him. 

HENRY    JOHN.SON.'' 

Here  Henry  is  paid 

For  the  charges  he  made. 
And  has  settled  at  last  with  his  debtors  ; 

With  a  good-natured  grace 

He  smiled  in  death's  face. 
When  he  showed  him  his  handcuffs  and  fetters. 

1  Son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coates)  (Ireenleaf,  and  grandson  of  Hon.  Benja- 
min (jreenleaf,  judge  of  probate.  He  was  born  in  Xewburyport  June  22,  1795, 
and  married,  January-  19,  1825,  Fraisalette  Cutler,  daughter  of  Capt.  Francis  Lane, 
and  subsequently  removed  to  Topsham,  Maine. 

■-  Son  of  Benjamin  and  (Jrizzel  (Apthorp)  (Jould,  and  brother  of  Hannah  F. 
Gould.  He  was  born  June  15,  1787,  and  for  many  years  was  a  teacher  in  the 
Boston  Latin  school.     He  died  in  Boston  October  24,  1859. 

3  Son  of  Alexander  and  Mary  W.  Caldwell.  He  was  born  in  Nevvburyport  [uly 
31,  1787,  and  for  many  years  was  a  dealer  in  dry-goods  at  No.  56  State  street. 
He  died,  unmarried,  January  6,  1864. 

''  Son  of  Capt.  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Johnson.  He  was  born  October  4, 
1 796,  and  for  many  years  was  a  prominent  merchant  in  Newbuiyport,  and,  in 
1852  and  1853,  m^yor  of  the  city.      He  died  ^hlrch  13,  1859. 


554  APPENDIX 

ABEL    JOHNSON.' 

Here  Abel  lies  slain, 
Though  it  was  not  by  Cain, 

For  cane  was  his  greatest  supporter  ; 
For  when  that  was  gone 
His  right  side  was  undone. 

For  his  left  was  two  inches  shorter. 


CHARLES    TOPPAN.^ 

Here  Toppan  has  come 
To  a  peaceable  home, 

And  now  he  lies  humble  and  quiet ; 
The  grave  could  not  catch 
A  more  troublesome  wretch, 

Nor  the  worm  tind  a  litter  for  diet. 


JOHN    SCOTT.^ 

Here  a  certain  attorney 
Has  stopped  on  his  journey, 

His  justice  and  mercy  disputed  ; 
For  he  tried  to  proceed 
With  one  shoe  on  his  steed, 

But  was  thrown  and  completely  non-suited. 


^  Son  of  Capt.  Nichi:)las  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Johnson,  and  brother  of  Henry 
Johnson.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  in  1793,  and  died  at  Cape  Henry,  Hayti, 
in  1826. 

2  Son  of  Edward  and  Rachel  (Smith)  Toppan.  E^e  was  born  Februaiy  10,  1796, 
in  Newburyport,  and  when  only  eighteen  years  of  age  was  employed  by  Draper, 
Murray  &  Fairman,  bank-note  engravers,  in  Philadelphia.  He  married  Laura  Ann 
Noxon  July  17,  1826,  and  in  1858  was  elected  president  of  the  American  Bank 
Note  Company,      He  died  in  Florence,  Italy,  November  20,  1874. 

3  Son  of  Joel  and  Maiy  Scott.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  January  13,  1790, 
and  married  Hannah  Pickard  of  Rowley  in  July  or  August,  1S15.  He  died  March 
2,  1828.     His  widow  died  June  18,  1861. 


AfPEXDIX 


ASA    \V.    WILDES. 


555- 


When  his  case  was  done  pleading, 

And  his  boys  were  done  reading, 
And  his  speech  was  no  longer  fluent : 

Asa  dodged  out  of  sight. 

And  his  boys  took  to  flight 
When  they  saw  their  great  master  play  truant. 


THOMAS    H.    WHITE. 

Here  lies  lazy  Tom, 

Who  for  fashion  has  come, 

With  some  thought  of  returning  to  sup  ; 
Being  decently  laid 
By  the  sexton  and  spade, 

He's  too  lazy  to  help  himself  up. 


DR.    ANTONIO    KNICHT.^ 

Here  crazy  Antone 

Has  laid  himself  down 
On  the  lap  of  the  earth — his  first  parent  ; 

When  death  with  his  dart 

Struck  his  love-tortured  heart. 
And  pierced  the  unhappy   Knight-errant. 


'  Son  of  Dudley  and  Bethiah  (Harris)  Wildes.  He  was  born  in  Topsrield,- 
Mass.,  May  3,  1786;  and  taught  school  in  Newburyport  after  graduating  at  Dart- 
mouth in  1809.  lie  married,  June  7,  1818,  Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of  Abel  Lunt; 
afterwards  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1820.  For  twenty-five 
years  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  county  of  Essex.  He  died  in 
Newburyport  December  4,  1S57. 

-  Son  of  Oilman  and  Betsey  White.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  Octol  er  20, 
1795,  and  was  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  T.  B.  &  E,  L.  White,  booksellers 
and  stationers,  He  removed  to  New  Bedford,  and  for  thirty  years  was  cashier  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  in  that  city.     He  died,  unmarried,     [anuary   ly, 

1873- 

*  .Son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Treadwell)  Knight.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport 
in  1795,  and  died  in  Ipswich  luly  8,  18S2.  He  was  mildly  insane,  and  claiming 
supernatural  power,  applied  to  the  General  Court  for  permission  to  change  his. 
name  to  Emanuel. 


556  APPENDIX 

JOSEPH     MAROUAND.' 

Here  lies  our  kind  Joe, 
And  a  handsomer  beau 

Never  danced  with  the  handsomest  lady 
He's  had  his  last  ball. 
And  exchanged  his  light  hall 

For  a  house  that  is  narrow  and  shady. 


HENRY    C.    WRIGHT. - 

Here  lies  Master  Wright, 

When  he  bade  us  good  night 
The  glory  of  Andover  fainted  : 

He"s  read  his  last  rule. 

Whipped  his  last  rogue  in  school, 
And  now  he  has  gone  up  to  be  sainted. 

DR.    SAMUEL    \V.    WVJMAN.^ 

Here  lies  Dr.  \\'yman, 

That  snug  little  shyman, 
Whose  house  always  traveled  when  he  did  ; 

But  he  might  have  been  kept 

In  the  room  where  he  slept. 
For  a  closer  grave  never  was  needed. 


'  Son  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca  Marquand.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  Decem- 
ber 25,  1793;  and  married  Sarah  (Winslow)  Head,  widow  of  Charles  Head,  De- 
cember 20,  1827.  He  lived  in  a  house  on  the  corner  of  Fruit  and  High  streets 
for  two  or  three  years,  and  afterward  removed  to  Newbur\-,  where  he  died  in  1851. 

"  Son  of  Seth  and  Miriam  Wright.  He  was  born  August  29,  1797,  in  Sharon, 
Conn.,  and  was  a  school  teacher  in  Newburyport  in  1822.  He  married,  June  26, 
1823,  Elizabeth  LeBreton,  widow  of  David  Stickney,  antl  was  pastor  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  in  West  Newbury  from  June  21,  1826,  to  July  7,  1S33.  He 
subsequently  visited  Europe,  and  after  his  return  to  New  England  became  a  prom- 
inent anti-slaven,'  lecturer. 

•''  Son  of  William  and  Marj-  W.  Wyman.  He  was  born  in  Boston  in  July,  1739, 
and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Ipswich  in  181S,  removing  to  Newburyport 
in  1821,  taking  with  him  a  small  building  that  he  subsequently  used  as  an  office, 
on  the  corner  of  State  and  Temple  streets.  He  married,  November  13,  1824, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Joshua  Toppan.  He  died  in  Newburj-port  January  31, 
1867. 


AFPEXDIX  557 

EBENEZER    WHEELWRIGHT.' 

Here  lies  a  Wheelwright 

With  his  spokes  oat  of  sight, 
For  his  wheel  always  went  without  carriage  ; 

He  kept  making  wheels 

Till  he'd  worn  off  his  heels, 
And  wheeled  himself  quite  out  of  marriage. 


JOHN    PORTER.- 

Death's  habits  are  such 
That  he  meddles  too  much, 

Sometimes,  with  our  Porter  and  Beer; 
He  has  taken  his  cup, 
Drank  the  spirits  all  up, 

And  thrown  out  the  sediments  here. 


CHARLES    PRESCOTT.3 

Here  Charles  is  secured 
From  the  storms  he  adored. 

His  compass  and  charts  are  thrown  by 
His  harbor  is  made. 
His  anchor  is  weighed, 

And  his  colors  are  hoisted  on  hisfh. 


'  Son  of  Ebenezer  and  Anna  (Coombs)  Wheelwright.  He  was  born  in  New- 
buryport  Februarj'  13,  iSoo;  married  Sarah  Boddily  Januaiy  21,  1823;  and 
was  for  many  years  a  merchant  in  Newburyport  and  Boston.      He  died  June    10, 

1877. 

-  Born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  February  2,  1784.  He  married,  September  16, 
iSii,  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  and  Betsey  Bartlet,  and  died  in  Newbur\-port, 
March  26,  1 873. 

■'  Son  of  Dr.  Oliver  and  Ann  (Whiting)  Prescott.  Born  in  Groton,  Mass., 
March  4,  l8or,  he  came  with  his  father,  mother,  and  other  members  of  the  fam- 
ily, to  Newburyport  in  1811,  and  subsequently  made  several  voyages  to  the  West 
Indies  as  an  ordinary  seaman.  He  died,  unmarried,  in  Empire  City,  California 
October  24,  1851. 


558  APPENDIX 

DR.    RICHARD    S.    SPOFFORD.' 

Here  lies  Richard  Spofford, 
His  last  powder  is  proffered, 

And  he  out  of  patients  has  grown  ; 
His   pills  and  his  phials 
Have  taken  their  trials, 

And  now  he  has  gone  for  his  own. 


EBEXEZER    SHILLABER." 

Say  the  best  that  we  can, 
There  lies  a  small  man 

Beneath  the  green  turf  on  the  hill : 
He"s  plead  his  last  cause, 
Read  his  last  code  of  law's, 

And  made,  let  us  hope,  his  last  will. 


ALFRED    W.    PIKE. 3 

Here  Alfred,  'tis  said, 

Rests  his  logical  head 
From  the  noise  of  each  wearisome  elf : 

For  having  declined 

All  the  verbs  he  could  find, 
He  took  to  declining:  himself. 


'  Son  of  Dr,  Amos  and  Irene  (Dole)  Spofford.  He  was  born  in  Rowley,  Mass., 
May  24,  17S7,  and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Newburj-port  in  1816.  He 
married  Mrs.  Frances  Maria  Lord  July  13,  1829,  and  died  in  Newburyport  Janu- 
ary 19,  1872. 

-  Son  of  Ebenezer  and  Dorcas  (Endicott)  Shillaber.  He  was  born  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  July  8,  1797,  and  was  a  lawyer  in  Newburj-port  for  several  years.  From 
1 841  to  1 85 1  he  was  clerk  of  the  courts  for  Essex  county.  He  died  November  8, 
1856,  in  Biddeford,  Maine,  unmarried. 

^  Alfred  W.  Tike,  son  of  Joseph  and  Lois  (Tenney)  Pike,  was  born  in  Rowley, 
Mass.,  March  21,  1791,  and  was  a  school  teacher  in  Newbuiyport  for  ten  or  fifteen 
years.  He  died  at  his  residence  in  Boston  SeptemLer  6,  1S60,  and  was  buried 
in  the  new  cemeter)-,  opposite  the  Congregational  meeting-house,  in  By  field  parish, 
Newbury,  The  stone  that  marks  his  last  resting-place  was  erected  Ly  pupils 
who  received  instruction  from  him  when  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  Newburyport 
Academy. 


APPENDIX  55g 

CHARLES   H.    BALCH.' 

'Twas  here  Balch  was  dropped, 

When  his  time-piece  had  stopped, 
The  chain  having  caught  in  the  notches: 

The  wheels  moved  too  slow. 

And  the  hands  would  not  go, 
So  he's  done  with  his  clocks  and  his  watches. 


JOHN    T.    BALCH/ 

Here  lies  Johnny  T 
With  a  chest  of  Bohea, 

That  the  merchants  of   India  gave  him 
But  all  the  good  things 
That  foreign  trade  brings 

Proved  at  last  insulificient  to  save  him. 


CALEB    CUSHING.^ 

Lay  aside  all  ye  dead. 

For  in  the  next  bed 
Reposes  the  body  of  Gushing ; 

He  has  crowded  his  way 

Through  the  world,  as  they  say. 
And  even  though  dead  will  keep  pushing. 


1  .Son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Hodge)  Balch.  He  was  born  October  29,  1/87,  and 
was  a  clock  and  watch  maker.  He  died  in  Newburyport  November  18,  1S52,  un- 
married. 

-  Son  of  Daniel  and  Martha  Balch.  He  was  born  in  Newburyport  October  13, 
1 799,  and  was,  for  several  years,  a  dealer  in  West  India  goods  and  groceries.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Jones,  daughter  of  Hon.  George  Thacher  of  Biddeford,  Maine, 
and  removed  to  that  town,  where  several  of  his  children  were  born.  He  after- 
wards resided  in  New  York  city  and  Akron,  Ohio.      He  died  February  24,  1847. 

•'  Son  of  John  Newmarch  and  Lydia  (Dow)  Gushing.  He  was  born  in  Salis- 
bury, Mass.,  January  17,  iSco,  and  married,  November  23,  1824,  Garoline  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Wilde  of  Newburyport.  He  was  a  prominent 
lawyer,  legislator,  statesman  and  diplcmatist.  He  died  in  Newburyport  January  2, 
1879. 


560  APPENDIX 

JONATHAN    WOOD.' 

Here  the  Major  lies  cold, 
His  cheap  goods  are  all  sold, 

His  snuff  box  was  all  he  could  proffer, 
But  that  he'd  not  sell, 
For  he  loved  it  too  well. 

So  a  pinch  was  the  most  he  could  offer. 


EDMUND    SWETT.- 

Here  lies  Mr.  Fairface — 
More  properly  bareface  — 

For  once  he's  completely  beat  down  :^ 
His  stuff  was  too  thin, 
The  grave  took  him  in. 

And  gave  him  a  stone  for  a  crown. 


HANNAH    F.    GOULD.^ 

Now  Hannah  has  done 

With  her  rhyming  and  fun  ; 
When  her  course  from  the  world  she  was  shaping. 

The  bells  would  not  toll 

For  so  little  a  soul. 
From  so  mighty  a  body  escaping. 


'  Son  of  Jonathan  and  Abigail  Wood.  He  was  born  in  Boxford  August  9, 
1794,  and  in  1815  had  a  shop  at  No.  2  State  street,  Newburyport,  where  he  sold 
broadcloths,  cassimeres,  blankets,  calicoes,  sheetings,  etc.  In  December,  182 1, 
he  disposed  of  his  stock  in  trade  at  auction,  and  probably  removed  from  Newbury- 
port soon  after  that  date.  He  was  major  of  the  battalion  of  infantry  under  the 
command  of  Lt.  Col.  Abraham  Williams  of  Newburj-port. 

^  Son  of  Edmund  and  Abigail  Swett.  He  was  born  in  Newburj'port  March  il, 
1793,  and  married,  October  19,  1815,  Mary  Stone.  He  removed  to  Boston  fifteen 
or  twenty  years  later. 

3  This  epitaph  is  supposed  to  be  the  last  one  written  by  Miss  Gould.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Grizzel  (Apthorp)  Gould,  and  was  born  in  Lancas- 
ter, Mass.,  September  5,  1789.  She  died  in  Newburyport  September  5,  1866, 
unmarried. 


APPENDIX  561 


IlANXAIl     K.    COULD.' 

Here  lies  one  whose  wit 

Without  wounding  could  hit : — 
And  green  grow  the  grasses  above  her : 

She  has  sent  every  beau 

To  the  regions  below, 
And  now  she's  eone  there  for  a  lover. 


Paul  Lunt  married  Hannah  Adams,  and  not  Harriet  Adams 
as  stated  on  the  five  hundred  and  sixth  page  of  this  volume. 

Ezra,  son  of  Matthew  and  Jane  (Moody)  Lunt,  born  April 
10,  1743,  probably  married  Elizabeth  Pearce  in  1765,  as 
stated  on  the  five  hundred  and  fortieth  page,  and  after  her 
death  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Mary  (Pike)  Coffin,  widow 
of  Capt.  David  Coffin.  His  intention  of  marriage  to  Mary, 
widow  of  Captain  Coffin,  was  filed  with  the  town  clerk  Janu- 
ary 9,  1768. 


'  F"or  many  years  Caleb  Ciishing  was  supposed  to  have  written  this  epitaph,  in 
reply  to  one  beginning,  "  Lay  aside  all  ye  dead,"  printed  on  page  559,  but  in  a 
brief  note  to  John  Ward  Dean  of  Boston,  published  in  the  Xewburyport  Herald 
Januar}^  15,  1S79,  Mr.  Gushing  wrote:  "The  epitaph  in  question  was,  in  my  be- 
lief, written  by  Mr.  Ebenezer  Bailey,  certainly  not  by  me." 


VII. 

ADDITIONS    AND    CORRECTIONS. 
HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 

In  the  letter  from  Robert  Mason  "  to  his  excellency  Ed- 
mund Andros,"  printed  on  the  one  hundred  and  ninety-fifth 
page  of  the  History  of  Newbury,  by  John  J.  Currier,  the 
name  "  Daniel  Pierce,"  in  the  sixth  line  from  the  bottom  of 
the  page,  should  read  "  Daniel  Davison." 

The  grist  mills  and  saw  mill  at  Pine  island,  owned  by  Daniel 
Adams,  jr.,  were  destroyed  by  fire,  December  5,  1797,  as 
stated  on  the  two  hundred  and  sixty-second  page  of  the 
History  of  Newbury,'.  Mr.  Adams  subsequently  built  a 
new  grist  mill  in  the  same  locality,  which,  after  his  decease, 
became  the  property  of  his  children.  July  i,  1857,  Asa,  son 
of  Daniel  Adams,  sold  one-undivided-half  of  this  grist  mill 
to  Seneca  Adams,-  and  July  9,  1858,  Sarah  and  Edna  Adams 
sold  the  other  undivided-half  to  Joseph  N.  Rolfe.^  August 
31,  1863,  Edmund  Knight  purchased  of  the  estate  of  Seneca 
Adams  one-half  of  the  mill,  with  about  one  and  a  half  acres 
of,  land  adjoining.-*  Plve  or  six  years  later,  the  grinding  of 
corn  by  water  power  was  found  to  be  unprofitable  ;  the  ma- 
chinery was  removed  from  the  mill,  and  the  building  taken 
down . 

May  2,  1870,  Edmund  Knight  and  Joseph  N.  Rolfe  sold 
Asa  and  Joseph  L.  Adams  about  one  acre  of  marsh  and 
upland,   "  it  being   the  premises  known    as  the   Pine  Island 

'  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  261  and  262;  Essex  Deeds,  bool<  147, 
leaf  93,  and  book  149,  leaf  29. 

2  Essex  Deeds,  book  555,  leaf  125. 

3  Essex  Deeds,  book  575,  leaf  272. 
''  Essex  Deeds,  book  660,  leaf   no. 

562 


APPENDIX 


563 


mill  lot,"  reserving"  the  right  to  repurchase  the  same  within 
ten  years  for  the  erection  of  a  mill.'  The  land,  however,  was 
not  repurchased,  and  the  mill  was  not  rebuilt. 

The  date,  January  26,  1868,  on  the  second  line  from  the 
bottom  of  page  three  hundred  and  forty-five  of  the  History 
of  Newbury,  should  read  January  25,   1868. 

In  the  Revolutionary  war  the  men  and  officers  under  the 
command  of  General  Burgoyne  were  taken  prisoners  October 
17,  1777,  at  Saratoga,  and  sent  to  Massachusetts  for  safe 
keeping  until  they  could  be  exchanged  and  returned  to  Eng- 
land. They  were  carefully  guarded  at  Winter  hill,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Boston,  by  Continental  troops  detached  from  the 
army  for  that  purpose.""  The  following-named  officers,  in  Col. 
Jacob  Gerrish's  regiment,  signed  a  petition,  December  6, 
1777,  asking  for  food,  clothing  and  other  supplies  while 
guarding  these  prisoners. ^ 

Jacob  Gerrish,    Field  Officer.  John  Devereux,  Captain. 

Henry  Morrill.       ••         "  John  Dodge.  " 

Benjamin  Gage,     '•         •'  Jonathan  Proctor,      " 

Miles  Greenwood,  Captain.  Oliver  Titcomb,         " 

Mark  Pool,  "  Caleb  Kimball,  " 

Sami  Huse,  " 

Samuel  Webber,  son  of  John  and  Rachel  (Harris)  Web- 
ber, was  born  in  Byfield,  Newbury,  January  (?)  13,  1760.  He 
was  fitted  for  college  at  Dummer  Academy,  and  graduated 
at  Harvard  in  1784.  After  completing  his  studies  for  the 
ministry,  he  accepted,  in  1787,  the  position  of  tutor  of  the  col- 
lege, and  was  appointed,  in  1 789,  Hollis  professor  of  mathe- 
matics and  natural  philosophy.  March  11,  1806,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  corporation,  but  did  not  assume  the 
duties  of  that  office  until  the   twelfth    of  May  following.      In 

1  Essex  Deeds,  book  967,  leaf   113. 

^  Histoiy  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  596. 

•'  Massachusetts  Archives,  vokune  183,  pages  294  and  .195. 


564  APPENDIX 

1789,  he  married  Rebecca  Smith  of  Gloucester,  and  by   this 
marriage  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

George,      born  in  1791  ;  died  in  1809,  unmarried. 

Sophia,  "     '•    1792;  died  in  1866. 

Matilda,        "     "    1795  ;  married  Prof .  James  F.  Dana  of 

Dartmouth  college. 
Samuel.         "     '•    1797  :  married  Anna    Winslow  Green 

of  jMedford  in  1823. 
John  A.,        "     "    1799:  married  Sarah  Heckling  of  Boston. 
Caroline,       "     '•    1801  ;  died  in  1825,  unmarried. 

He  died  in  Cambridge  July  17,  18 10. 

Dennis  Condry,  son  of  Dennis  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Con- 
dry,  was  born  in  Newburyport  August  23,  1794.  At  an 
early  age  he  made  several  voyages  to  the  West  Indies,  as  an 
ordinary  seaman,  and  soon  became  a  ship-master  and  ship- 
owner. April  8,  1813,  he  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Lewis 
and  Elizabeth  (Adams)  Lowell,'  and  November  29,  1821, 
was  admitted  to  membership  in  the  Newburyport  Marine 
Society.  He  was  captain  of  the  ship  Potomac,  built,  in  Salis- 
bury, in  1 82 1,  for  William  Bartlet  of  Newburyport,  and  in 
1840  was  part  owner  of  the  ship  Delia  Walker,  commanded 
by  his  son,  Lewis  Lowell  Condry. 

In  1830,  he  purchased  a  lot  of  land,  with  a  dwelling  house 
thereon,  in  Newbury,  on  the  southwesterly  side  of  High 
street,  opposite  the  head  of  Lime  street,  which  he  owned  and 
occupied  for  twenty-five  years. - 

'  Lewis  Lowell  was  for  ten  or  fifteen  years  keeper  of  the  lighthouses  at  Plum 
island. 

■-  The  house  on  this  lot  of  land  was  probably  huilt  in  1797,  by  Benjamin  Shaw 
(Essex  Deeds,  book  164,  leaf  28).  He  was  unsuccessful  in  business,  and  sold  the 
property  to  Ehas  Hunt  in  1790  (Essex  Deeds,  book  166,  leaf  50).  Mr.  Hunt 
died  April  20,  1820;  and  his  widow,  Betsey  Hunt,  conveyed  the  land,  with  the; 
buildings  thereon,  to  Dennis  Condn'  April  27,  1830  (Essex  Deeds,  book  256, 
leaf  133).  AmosW.  Mooney  purchased  the  house  October  20,  1856  (Essex  Deeds, 
book  540,  leaf  115),  and  sold  it,  March  16,  1874,  to  Thomas  C.  Simpson  (Essex 
Deeds,  book  900,  leaf  36).  It  is  now  the  residence  of  his  daughter,  Mabel  (Simp- 
son) Burke,  and  her  husband,  Robert  E.  Rurke,  esq. 


APPENDIX  565 

Although  actively  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits,  he  was 
interested  in  public  affairs,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts senate  in  1846  and  1847,  and  a  representative  to  the 
General  Court  for  the  session  beginning  January  3,  1849. 
He  was  twice  married.  By  his  first  wife,  Ann  (Lowell) 
Condry,  he  had  the  following-named  children  : — 

Lewis  Lowell,     born  in  Newburyport  Oct.  11,  1S13. 
Ann,  "     "    Newbury  Feb.  ig,   1815  ; 

married  Charles  Knight. 
Dennis,  "     "    Newbury  Jan.  21,  1S19. 

Charles  Coffin,       "     "  "  March  5,  1S21  : 

died  Jan.  3,  1846. 
Delia  \\'alker,         "     "  "  April  26,  1824  : 

died  Oct.  14,  1824. 
Delia  Walker,         "     "  "  August  4,  1830: 

married  Richard  AL  Hanson  of 
Washington,  D.C.,  Dec.  16,  1852. 

Mrs.  Ann  (Lowell)  Condry  died  in  i845(?)  ;  and  Captain 
Condry  married,  February  7,  .  1848,  Catharine  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  Justice  (McLitire)  Browne 
of]\Vashington,  D.  C.  By  this  second  marriage  he  had  one 
daughter,  Sarah  Browne  Condry,  born  in  Newburyport  No- 
vember 9,  1848.  She  married,  January  20,  1876,  William 
Nichols  Field.      Mr.  Field  died  in  1893. 

Captain  Condry  was  appointed  lieutenant-commander  in  the 
United  States  naval  transport  service  October  5,  1861. 
After  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  an  inspector  in  the 
Boston  custom  house  for  several  years.  He  died  in  Roxbury, 
now  a  part  of  the  city  of  Boston,  November  26,  1876. 

In  addition  to  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Dr.  John  and 
Elizabeth  Newman,  born  in  Hampton,  N.  H.,  and  in  Newbury, 
Mass.,at  the  dates  mentioned  on  the  six  hundred  and  sixty-sixth 
page  of  the  History  of  Newbury,  they  had  the  following-named 
children  baptized  by  Rev.  John  Lowell,  pastor  of  the  Third 
Parish  church  in  Newbury,  now  the  First  Religious  Society 
of  Newburyport. 


566 


APPENDIX 

Elizabeth,  baptized  September  29,  1751, 
Judith,  "         August  2,  1 753. 

Joshua,  "         October  26,  1756. 

Mary,  "         January  1,  1758. 

Timothy,         "         March  30,  1760. 
Joanna,  "  March  i,  1767. 


An  old  house  that  stood  on  the  corner  of  Ordvvay's  lane, 
now  Market  street,  and  the  country  road,  now  High  street, 
Newburyport,  was  supposed  for  many  years  to  have  been  the 
home  of  Elizabeth  Morse,  who  was  accused  and  convicted  of 
witchcraft  in  1680  and  afterwards  reprieved/  It  appears, 
however,  from  recent  investigation,  that  William  Morse  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  resided  at  that  date  in  a  house  then  stand- 
ing, between  Water  and  Liberty  streets,  on  the  southeasterly 
side  of  Market  square. - 

The  house  on  the  corner  of  Market  and  High  streets  was 
probably  built  by  Joseph  Morse  in  1701.  He  owned  and 
occupied  it  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1 744.^  When  it  was 
removed,  in  June,  i85i,a  stately  elm  tree  was  cut  down  to 
make  room  for  the  block  of  modern  two-story  houses  now 
standing  there.  These  improvements  were  unfavorably  com- 
mented upon  by  many  citizens,  and  the  temporary  excitement 
that  followed  was  evidently  increased  by  the  pubUcation  of 
the  following  verses,  \vritten  by  Rev.  Edward  A.  Washburn, 
rector  of  St.  Paul's  church. 

THE  ELM  OF  THE  OLD   MORSE  HOUSE.4 
All  night  around  the  ancient  house 

The  screaming  winds  I  heard, 
All  night  the  ghosts  of  witches  old 

\\'ere  from  their  slumber  stirred  : 
Amidst  the  black  and  ruined  walls 

The  giant  elm  tree  lay. 
That  cast  its  patriarchal  arms 

Above  me  yesterday. 

1  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  pages  186-189. 

'  "Quid  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  628  and  629. 
3  "  Quid  Newbury:"  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  140  and  141. 
"  From  the  Newburyport  Herald,  June  17,  185 1. 


APPEA^DIX 

And  as  I  listened,  came  a  groan 

From  out  the  prostrate  bole, 
As  if  there  breathed  in  one  last  gasp 

A  suffering.  Dryad  soul : — 
"  What  voice  is  here  ? '"  the  sighing  air 

Brought  back  the  sound  of  woe  : 
"  Alas  !  I  was  a  goodly  elm, 

And  now  I  lie  full  low. 

I  grew  a  sapling,  tall  and  strong. 

In  sunshine  and  in  storm. 
My  boughs  made  music  in  the  blast. 

And  shade  in  summer  warm ; 
My  roots  were  fixed  in  native  earth. 

My  locks  I  waved  on  high. 
And  here,  where  first  I  had  my  birth, 

I  hoped  in  peace  to  die. 

Ah  I  many  a  legend  strange  and  old 

Have  I  to  tell  of  yore. 
The  wonders  of  'oulde  Newberry," 

The  folk  that  are  no  more, 
The  Quakers  wild,  the  witches  dire. 

Of  Cotton  Mather's  day  : 
A  Godl)'  hangman,  sure,  was  he, 

A  Godly  priest  to  pray. 

Ah  1  many  a  night  in  sad  affright 

Against  the  walls  I  leaned, 
I  saw  the  wrinkled  hags  at  work, 

I  saw  the  great,  foul  fiend  : 
And  maidens  fair  with  demon  heart 

Who  revelled  in  their  sins. 
Pinched  pious  people  black  and  blue. 

And  stuck  with  crooked  pins. 

Alas  !  alas  !  those  days  are  gone, 

And  gone  this  ancient  place, 
Old  Newbury  doth  now  contain 

A  mercenary  race  : 
They've  pulled  the  house  upon  my  head. 

And  for  an  inch  of  ground 
They've  cutaway  the  goodliest  elm 

In  all  the  region  round. 


567 


568  APPENDIX 

They've  chopped  me  up  for  firing  wood, 

They've  torn  me  limb  from  Hmb  ; 
And  here  they'll  put  a  paltry  box, 

All  painted  white  and  prim ; — 
The  villains  !  if  they  burn  me  e'er 

In  stove  or  iron  grate, 
I'll  fire  the  house  and  tumble  it 

On  every  rascal  pate. 

May  Heaven  confound  these  new-made  cits  I 

Their  brains  are  out  of  joint ; 
They'll  spoil  the  place  from  Oldtown  green 

As  far  as  Salisbury  point : 
Mine  ancient  neighbors  opposite' 

Have  heard  the  butchers  talk 
Of  cutting  down  their  reverend  heads 

To  make  a  new  brick  walk. 

No  more  shall  I  woo  passers  by, 

And  children  fresh  from  school  ; 
No  more  in  August's  blazing  noon 

Shall  spread  my  shadow  cool ; 
My  bough  has  bowed  to  ruthless  axe, 

My  glor}'  downward  sunk. 
They've  hacked  my  twigs  and  piled  them  up, 

And  now  they  pack  my  trunk. 

Ah  !  well  a  day  !  with  one  last  word 

I  leave  the  thankless  town  ; 
One  parting  curse  to  blast  the  Goth 

Who  cut  the  old  elm  down  ; 
O  listen,  sympathizing  friend, 

Before  I  yield  to  death, 
I'll  pour  my  very  spirit  out 

In  one  expiring  breath. 

Ye  Powers  !  that  rule  o'er  trees  and  men, 

Grant  him  a  hapless  lot. 
To  wander  like  the  weary  Jew 

In  some  Sahara  hot 

'  The  elm  trees  on  the  southwesterly  side  of  High  street,  opposite  Market  street, 
^^ere  cut  down  when  the  Kelly  school  house  was  built,  by  the  city  of  Newbury- 
poit,  in  1872. 


APPEXDIX 

To  travel  all  his  sultry  years, 

And  ask  in  vain  for  shade  : 
And  when  he  dies,  his  bleaching  bones 

Amid  the  sands  be  laid. 

Or,  if  he  live,  and  here  remain. 

Then  grant,  O  righteous  Heaven 
That  never  tree  save  gallows-tree 

IVIay  to  the  wretch  be  given. 
A  murderer's  heart  is  in  the  man 

Who  kills  an  aged  tree  ; 
I  do  advise  the  Mayor  wise 

To  watch  him  narrowly. 

A  murderer's  heart  is  in  the  man 

Who  kills  an  aged  tree : 
He'll  kill  his  aged  father  next. 

Or  baby  on  the  knee  ; 
Farewell — I  die,"' — the  elm  tree  paused, 

No  sound  came  forth  again  ; 
I  only  heard  the  wild  wind  scream, 

I  heard  the  pelting  rain. 


569 


VIII. 

ADDITIONS    AND    CORRFXTIONS. 
"  OULD    NEWBURY:"    HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES. 

On  the  ninth  page  of  ''  Ould  Newbury,"  first  hne,  "  the 
Council  for  New  England"  should  read  "the  King's  Privy 
Council." 

On  the  fiftieth  page,  sixteenth  line,  "  Lionel  North  " 
should  read  "  Lionel  Worth." 

Edward  Rawson,  who  came  from  England  to  Newbury  in 
1637,  was  elected  a  deputy  to  the  General  Court  for  the  ses- 
sion beginning  May  2,  1638,  and  served  for  many  consecutive 
sessions.'  He  owned  and  occupied  a  dwelling  house  near 
Parker  river,  and  in  1642  was  one  of  the  freeholders  of  the 
town  entitled  to  a  proportionate  part  of  the  undivided  land 
and  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  citizenship.  When  the 
removal  of  the  principal  inhabitants  from  Parker  river  to 
Merrimack  river  was  decided  upon,  in  1645,  Mr.  Rawson  was 
granted  several  acres  of  land  on  the  country  road,  now  High 
street,  opposite  the  head  of  Poore's  lane,  now  Woodland 
street,  Newburyport,  where  he  built  a  house  in  which  he 
lived  until  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Boston,  in  165  i. 

Two  hundred  acres  of  upland  and  meadow  land,  near 
birchen  meadow,  were  granted  Edward  Rawson  by  the  town 
of  Newbury  February  24,  1637.'  Subsequently,  this  land 
was  exchanged  for  two  hundred  acres  of  meadow  and  upland 
on  both  sides  of  the  Artichoke  river. ^ 

'  "  Ould  Newbury  " :  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  pages  40-54;  and 
History  o(  Newbury  (Currier),  page  675. 

2  History  of  Newbury  (Currier),  page  65. 

3  '»  Ould  Newbury  "  :    Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches,  page  50. 


APPEXDIX 


571 


April  6,  1638,  Mr.  Rawson  and  John  W'oodbridge  were 
ordered  to  prepare  a  list  of  the  laws  considered  necessary  for 
the  protection  of  life  and  property  in  the  colony  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,'  and  on  the  sixth  of  September  following  Ed- 
ward Rawson,  John  Woodbridge  and  Edward  Woodman  were 
appointed  by  the  General  Court  commissioners  to  end  small 
causes  in  the  town  of  Newbury. - 

November  19,  1638,  Mr.  Rawson  was  elected  town  clerk, 
and  was  annually  re-elected  to  that  ofifice  for  nine  consecutive 
years.  He  was  interested  in  the  attempt  to  manufacture 
powder  in  the  colony  as  early  as  1639,  ^^''^  on  the  sixth  of 
June  of  that  year  was  granted  by  the  General  Court  five 
hundred  acres  of  land  ''  at  Pecoit,  so  as  he  go  on  w"^  the 
business  of  powder,  if  the  salt  peter  come."^  For  the  en- 
couragement of  this  new  industry  the  following  order  was 
passed  the  same  day  : — 

[June  6,  1639]  It  is  ordered  that  if  the  salt  peter  come  not  Mr  Rau- 
son  shallbee  considered  according  to  such  damage  as  hee  shall  sus- 
taine.-* 

Owing  to  the  enactment  of  laws  in  England  and  Holland, 
prohibiting  the  shipment  of  saltpetre  to  America,  the  manu- 
facture of  gunpowder  in  the  colony  was  delayed  twenty-five 
or  thirty  years. 

Mr.  Rawson  was  elected  deputy  to  the  General  Court  for 
the  session  beginning  May  14,  1645,  and  on  the  eighteenth  of 
June  following  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  house  of  deputies. 5 
For  his  services  as  clerk  he  received  an  annual  salary  of 
twenty  marks. 

[October  18,  1645]  Itt  is  ordered  yt  Mr.  Rawson  shallbe  allowed  out 
of  the  treasury  the  some  of  twenty  marks,  for  the  service  he  hath  donne 

'  History  of  Newbury  (  Currier),  page  56. 
2  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  239. 
•5  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  263. 
■*  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  260. 
*  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  III,  page  28. 


572 


APPENDIX 


in  keeping  &  transcribing  the  recrds  of  the  House    of  Uepu's  for  the 
time  past.' 

[November  4,  1646]  Itt  is  ordered  ye  Edward  Rawson  shall  have 
twenty  markes  allowed  him  for  his  paines,  out  of  yc  next  levy,  as  secrt"" 
to  ye  Howse  of  Deputs  for  two  yeeres  past.     By  both  howses.- 

He  was  associated  with  Joseph  Hills,  who  subsequently 
married  the  widow  of  Henry  Lunt  of  Newbury,  in  codifying 
the  laws  of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  1648.^  An 
order  adopted  by  the  General  Court  in  March,  1647-8,  reads 
as  follows  : — 

The  Co'te  doth  desire  that  Mr  Rawson  &  Mr  Hill  compare  3-6  amend- 
ment of  the  bookes  of  lawes  passed  &  make  them  as  one :  &  one  of 
them  to  remaine  in  ye  hands  of  ye  comittee  for  ye  speedy  comitting  of 
them  to  the  presse  &  ye  othr  to  remaine  in  ye  hands  of  ye  Secretary,4 
sealed  up,  till  ye  next  Corte.5 

In  May,  1648,  John  Winthrop,  jr.,  was  granted  three  thou- 
sand acres  of  land,  "  neere  to  the  Narraganset  country,"  upon 
condition  that  he  begin  the  manufacture  of  salt  and  make 
one  hundred  tons  within  three  years.  The  same  day  the  fol- 
lowing order  was  passed  by  the  General  Court  : — 

In  answere  to  the  request  of  Mr  John  Wilson,  pastor  of  the  church  of 
Boston,  and  Mr  Edwd  Rawson  of  Newberry,  to  whom  this  Cost  fornirly 
granted  1500  acres  in  the  Pequod  country,  the  Corte  doth  thinke  it  meete 
to  have  their  1500  acres  layd  out  next  &  adjoining  to  the  3000  acres 
granted  to  Mr  John  Winthrope  at  Pacatuck,  neere  the  Narraganset  Coun- 
try, togethr  also  ;  or  in  case  Mr  Winthrop  performe  not  the  condition 
wth  respect  to  the  time  limited,  that  then  the  1500  acres  of  the  said  John 
Wilson  &  Edwd  Rawson  shalbe  of  the  said  3000  acres  granted  to  the 
said  John  Winthrop.'^' 

1  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  III,  page  61. 

^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  III,  page  83. 

3  See  brief  sketch  of  Heniy  Lunt  and  some  of  his  descendants  on  preceding 
pages  503  and  504. 

■*  Increase  Nowell  was  secretary  of  the  colony  from  June,  1639,  to  May,  I6^o. 

^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  230. 

'^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  241,  and  volume  III, 
page  126. 


APPENDIX 


5?3 


For  the  purpose  of  encouraging  the  manufacture  of  powder 
the  General  Court  passed  an  order  requiring  the  inhabitants 
of  every  town  in  the  colony  to  join  together  "  for  the  breed- 
ing of  salt  peeterin  some  out  house  used  for  poultry  ;  "  '  and, 
October  27,  1648,  granted  Edward  Rawson  five  hundred 
acres  of  land  for  assistance  rendered  in  establishing  and  de- 
veloping that  industry. 

The  Corte,  haveing  taken  into  their  serious  consichation  the  great  for- 
wardnes  &  readines  of  Mr  Edwfi  Rawson  to  advance  so  hopefull  a  de- 
signe  as  the  makeing  of  salt  peter  wtinn  this  jurisdiction,  who  for  that 
end  &  purpose  hath  disbursed  certain  moneyes,  to  his  great  losse  & 
damage,  prsentrd  to  us  at  large  in  his  petition  delivred  into  this  prsent 
Corte,  have  therefore,  in  consideration  of  the  prmises  &  answere  to  his 
said  petition,  given  &  granted  to  him  &  his  heires  500  ac  of  land  at  Pe- 
quot,  to  be  layd  out  by  the  appointmt  of  the  Corte,  as  also  five  pound,  to 
be  paid  him  out  of  the  treasury.- 

[October  17,  1649]  Mr  Eldwd  Rawson  haveing  resigned  up  his  500 
acres  of  land  fornvly  granted  him  in  p"t  of  recompense  of  his  damage 
sustained  about  ye  salt  peeter,  the  Corte  have  thought  meete  to  alow  him 
thirty  pounds,  in  full  satisfaction,  whereof  the  five  pound  formrly  granted 
is  accounted  a  part.3 

May  2,  1649,  Edward  Rawson,  Richard  Bellingham,  In- 
crease Nowell  and  Joseph  Hill  were  appointed  by  the  General 
Court  "  to  examine  the  public  writings  received  fro™  the  form"" 
Gov'n'"  &  put  them  in  order  fitingly  ;  &  they  are  to  do  it  w"'in 
5  weeks.'"-* 

May  22,  1650,  Mr.  Rawson  was  elected  secretary  of  the 
colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  the  charter  was  vacated  in  1684.  He  was  appointed  to 
many  positions  of  emolument  and  trust  by  the  General  Court ; 
and  attended  to  the  duties  assigned  him  with  promptness  and 
fidelity  ;  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  to 
revise  the  laws  of  the  colony  October  18,  1650. 

1  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  29. 
'^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  261. 
•''  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  283. 
■•  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  II,  page  271. 


574 


APPENDIX 


Itt  is  ordered  that  Richard  Belhngham,  Esquire,  the  secretary  [Edward 
Rawson]  and  Mr.  [Joseph]  Hill,  or  any  two  of  them,  are  appointed  a 
comittee  to  take  order  for  the  printing  the  Lawes  agreed  vppon  to  be 
printed,  to  determine  of  all  things  in  reference  thereunto,  agreeing  with 
the  president  for  the  printing  of  them  with  all  expedition,  and  to  allow 
the  title  if  there  be  cause.' 

October  14,  165  i,  Mr.  Rawson  was  appointed  recorder  for 
the  county  of  Suffolk  in  place  of  William  Aspinwall,  who, 
for  misconduct,  was  removed  by  the  General  Court,  and  or- 
dered to  deliver  up  all  the  records  belonging  to  the  county.'' 
When  John  Hull  was  authorized  to  coin  silver  money  for  the 
use  of  the  colony,  Mr.  Rawson,  who  still  retained  the  office 
of  secretary,  was  appointed,  with  Richard  Bellingham,  Capt. 
John  Leverett  and  others,  by  the  General  Court,  May  27, 
1652,  to  select  a  convenient  place  for  the  mint  house  in  Bos- 
ton, and  make  all  the  arrangements  necessary  to  carry  on  the 
work  of  the  mint  judiciously  and  promptly. -^ 

June  2,  1653,  Mr.  Rawson  was  allowed  compensation  for 
his  service  as  clerk  of  the  commissioners  of  the  United  Col- 
onies, as  stated  in  the  following  order  : — 

The  secretary  and  his  man  having  for  this  months  time,  and  more, 
binn  very  much  imploied  to  write  for  our  commissioners,  both  theire  acts 
and  transcribing  the  letters  and  artikles  to  the  Dutch  &c,  the  Court  doth 
judge  it  meete,  and  orders  that  the  secretary  be  satisfied  out  of  the  next 
country  rate,  eight  pence  p  page,  as  the  lawe  provides  in  another  case  ; 
and  that  the  severall  proportions  of  the  other  colonies  be  by  the  auditor 
taken  notice  of,  that  it  may  be  brought  to  account. 4 

In  1653,  Mr.  Rawson  was  one  of  the  commissioners  ap- 
pointed to  confer  with  the  inhabitants  of  Wells,  Cape  Por- 
pus  and  Saco,  Maine,  in  regard  to  the  bounds  and  limits  of 
the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  subsequently  petitioned 

'  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  35, 
■^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  68. 
•*  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  III,  page  261. 
''  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  146. 


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575 


the  General  Court  for  compensation.  In  answer  to  this  peti- 
tion he  was  granted,  November  i,  1654,  two  hundred  acres  of 
upland  and  meadow,  on  "  Ouochecho  River,  above  Dover 
bounds,'"  and  Capt.  Bryan  Pendleton  and  Peter  Coffin  were 
ordered  to  lay  it  out.'  May  15,  1657,  he  was  granted  addi- 
tional land,  as  follows  : — 

The  Court,  in  reference  to  ye  secretary  Edward  Rawsons  service  wti> 
other  gentmn  for  the  eastward  doe  graunt  vnto  him  two  hundred  acres 
of  land,  to  be  laid  out  vnto  him  beside  wt  was  confirmed  to  him  on 
Quochecho  River,  in  any  place  not  interfering  wth  former  graunts.^ 

October  18,  1659,  Mr.  Rawson's  salary  was  increased  to 
sixty  pounds  per  annum,  by  the  adoption  of  the  following 
order : — 

The  Court,  considering  that  the  secretary  hath  served  the  countrie  for 
many  yeers  in  that  place,  whose  time  hath  altogether  binn  taken  vp  wth 
the  weighty  occasions  of  the  countrie,  which  haue  beene  &  are  incum- 
bent on  him  [the  neglect  whereof  would  be  an  inevitable  &  great  preju- 
dice to  the  pulique]  and  himself  oft  times  forced  to  hire  a  dark  to  helpe 
him,  which  hath  cost  him  some  yeeres  twenty  pounds  per  annu,  and 
every  yeere  spending  of  his  owne  estate  a  considerable  some  beyond 
what  his  estate  will  beare,  nor  is  it  for  the  honour  of  the  country  that 
such  an  officer,  so  necessary,  who  hath  also  binn  found  faithfull  &  able 
in  the  discharg  of  the  trust  comitted  to  him,  should  want  due  encour- 
agement, doe  therefore  order,  that  the  present  secretary  shall  have,  from 
the  eleventh  of  May  last,  the  some  of  sixty  pounds  per  annu  for  his 
sallery,  to  continew  yeerly  vntill  this  Court  shall  order  &  provide  some 
other  meete  recompense.' 

October  16,  1660,  the  following  order  was  adopted  by  the 
General  Court,  granting  to  Mr.  Rawson  a  gratuity  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  for  his  labor  in  compiling  and 
preparing  the  laws  of  the  colony  for  the  press. 

'  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  211. 
2  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  304. 
2  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  IV,  part  I,  page  391. 


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Whereas  Mr  Edward  Rawson  was  imployed  by  this  Court  for  the 
drawing  vp  of  the  booke  of  laues  before  it  was  performed  by  Major 
Genii  Dennison,  this  Court,  being  willing  to  acknowledg  the  labors  of 
such  as  are  imploied  for  ye  publicke  behooffe,  doe  judge  meete,  as  a  gra- 
tuity for  his  paines,  to  graunt  him  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  in 
any  place  not  yet  disposed  of  by  this  Court.' 

August  8,  1 66 1,  Mr.  Rawson,  secretary  of  the  colony,  in 
the  presence  of  the  governor,  deputy  governor,  magistrates, 
deputies,  a  large  number  of  citizens,  several  companies  of 
soldiers,  "and  one  troope  of  horse,"  assembled  in  Boston, 
proclaimed  Charles  the  Second  "  lawfull  King  of  Great 
Brittaine,  France  &  Ireland,  and  all  other  territories  & 
dominions  thereunto  belonging." 

In  the  discharge  of  his  public  duties  Mr.  Rawson  was  fre- 
quently called  upon  to  assist  in  the  settlement  of  questions 
relating  to  the  government  of  the  colony,  and  often  paid  from 
his  private  purse  bills  that  were  afterward  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  General  Court  and  settled  at  various  dates 
by  the  adoption  of  the  following  orders  and  resolves  : — 

[October  22,  1677]  The  Court,  vpon  information  of  Mr.  Rausons 
extraordinary  reall  expences  out  of  purse  lately,  as  djet,  wa3'ting  on  the 
council,  for  paper  also,  and  hiring  persons  to  write  for  him,  as,  being 
demonstrated,  he  is  in  disburs,  it  is  ordered,  that  the  Treasurer  pay  him 
forty  pounds  in  money  in  consideration  thereof,  besides  his  ordinary 
sallery.2 

[October  15,  1679]  In  ansr  to  the  humble  remonstrance  &  peticon  of 
Edward  Rawson,  the  Court  judgeth  it  meet  to  grant  the  peticoner  fivety 
pounds  in  or  as  money,  to  be  payd  him  out  of  the  publick  treasury.3 

[March  16,  16S0-1]  In  an  ansr  to  the  humble  motion  &  request  of 
Edward  Rauson,  it  is  ordered,  that  the  fowerteen  pounds  the  Treasurer 
demands  of  the  Secretary  be  chardged  to  the  countrys  account  &  that 
the  Treasurer  pay  him  twenty  pounds  more  in  country  pay  &  this  to  be 
in  sattisfaction  for  extraordinary  service  done,  as  in  the  peticon,  besides 
his  sallery.4 

1  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  W ,  part  I,  pages  441  and  442. 
-  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  V,  page  171. 
^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  V,  page  252. 
■*  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  \',  page  306. 


APPE.VDIX 


577 


[October  lo,  1683]  In  answer  to  a  motion  made,  the  Corte  doe,i(rant 
to  Mr  Edward  Rawson  live  hundred  acres  of  land,  to  be  layd  out  in  any 
free  place,  not  prejudicing  any  plantation.' 

The  charter  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  was  an- 
nulled in  1684.  A  provisional  government  was  organized  in 
1686,  and  Joseph  Dudley  appointed  president.  In  December 
of  that  year,  Sir  Edmund  Andros,  governor-in-chief  of  all 
New  England,  arrived  in  Boston  and  assumed  control  of  pub- 
lic affairs.  Previous  to  his  arrival  the  records  and  papers,  in 
the  custody  of  Edward  Rawson,  were  placed  in  the  hands  of 
a  committee  appointed  to  receive  them.  No  sessions  of  the 
General  Court  were  held  until  after  the  revolution  in  1689, 
which  resulted  in  the  overthrow  of  Governor  Andros. 

When  the  new  charter  was  granted  by  the  King,  and  the 
Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  organized,  in  1692,  Mr.  Raw- 
son  was  too  old  to  take  an  active  part  in  the  administration  of 
public  affairs.  He  died  August  27,  1693,  aged  seventy-eight, 
at  his  residence  in  Rawson 's  lane,  now  Bromfield  street,  Boston. 

The  ferry  at  Carr's  island  was  probably  abandoned  previ- 
ous to  the  incorporation  of  Newburyport,  as  stated  on  the 
seventy-fifth  page  of  "  Ould  Newbury,"  and  several  attempts 
were  made  to  re-establish  it  without  success.  The  court  of 
general  sessions,  held  at  Ipswich  in  March,  1773,  issued  the 
following  order  : — 

On  reading  the  Petition  of  Richard  Carr  &  James  Carr  shewing  that 
they  are  owners  of  the  Island  in  Merrimack  River,  called  Carr's  Island, 
that  formerly  there  was  a  Ferry  kept  up  &  maintained  from  s"d  Island  to 
the  main  Land  at  Newbury  &  a  Bridge  between  the  same  Island  &  Sal- 
isbury, that  s"d  Petitioners  apprehend  that  if  a  Bridge  &  Ferry  were 
again  kept  in  the  same  places  the  Public  would  be  greatly  served  &c  (as 
by  s'd  Petition  on  file)  &  praying  the  Court  to  enquire  by  a  committee  of 
the  E.xpediency  thereof  &c 

Ordered  that  William  Browne,  Nathaniel  Peaslee  Sargeant  cS:  Richard 
Saltonstall,'Esq,  be  a  Committee   to   incjuire   into   the   necessity   &  con- 

'  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  \',  page  418, 


578 


APPENDIX 


venience  of  having  a  Bridge  &  Ferry  as  set  forth  in  s'd  Petition  &  take 
a  view  of  s'd  Island  &c  &  make  a  Report  at  next  Term.' 

The  committee  failed  to  report  at  the  appointed  time,  and 
the  case  was  continued  from  term  to  term  for  two  or  three 
years,  until  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  when  it 
was  quietly  dropped  from  the  docket. 

Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth  Carr,  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  165  1-2,  as  stated  on  the  seventy-sixth  page,  married 
Rev.  James  Bailey  (or  Bayley),  who  was  born  in  Newbury 
September  12,  1650.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in 
1669,  and  was  settled,  October  28,  1671,  pastor  of  the  First 
Parish  church  in  "  Salem  Village,"  now  Danvers,  Mass., 
where  he  officiated  until  1679,  when  he  removed  to  Killing- 
worth,  Conn.,  where  his  wife  died  October  28,  1688. 

Sarah,  sister  of  Mary  (Carr)  Bailey,  married  Thomas 
Baker  of  Boston,  not  William  Hinckley  of  Hampton,  N.  H., 
as  stated  on  the  page  above-named,^  and  Ann,  a  younger 
sister,  married  Thomas  Putnam  of  Danvers  November  22, 1678. 

John  Carr,  brother  of  Mary,  Sarah  and  Ann  Carr,  was 
evidently  disappointed  in  love.  He  was  anxious  to  marry 
Jemima  True  of  Salisbury,  but  the  match  was  broken  off,  on 
account  of  his  youth  it  is  said,  and  he  became  despondent, 
morose  and  at  times  partially  insane.  He  died  September 
23,  1689,  and  Mrs.  Mary  (Perkins)  Bradbury,  wife  of  Capt. 
Thomas  Bradbury  of  Salisbury,  was  accused  of  having  de- 
throned his  reason  by  witchcraft,  and  filled  his  mind,  weak- 
ened by  disease,  with  disordered  fancies. ^  At  her  trial  in 
1692  the  sworn  statements  of  Richard  and  James  Carr  were 
presented  to  the  court  by  the  prosecuting  attorney,  but  Wil- 
liam Carr,  an  older  brother,  having  faith  in  her  blameless  life 

1  Records  of  the  Court  of  ( General  Sessions,  1764- 17  77,  page  300. 

2  Sarah,  daughter  of  WiUiam  and  EHzabeth  Carr,  born  August  13,  168 r,  prob- 
ably married  WiUiam  Hinckley  of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  December  30,  1700  ((31d 
Families  of  Salisbury  and  Amesbury  (Hoyt),  volume  I,  page  86). 

3  Mrs.  Bradbury  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Judith  Perkins  of  Ipswich.  She 
married  Thomas  Bradbury  in  1636,  and  died  December  20,  1700,  in  the  eighty- 
eighth  year  of  her  age. 


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579 


and  high  moral  character,  testified  strongly  in  her  defence. 
She  was  convicted,  however,  and  sentenced  to  death,  but 
managed  in  some  way  to  escape  punishment,  and  lived  for 
several  years  after  that  date  in  Salisbury.' 

Richard    Carr,    born    April  2,    1659,    son   of  George  and 

Elizabeth  Carr,  married  Dorothy for  his  first  wife  (not 

Elizabeth ,  as  stated   on   the  above-named   page).     She 

died  August  3,  1694,  and  he  married,  February  20,  1 701-2, 
Sarah  Healey  for  his  second  wife.  She  died  January  8, 
1726-7,  and  August  10,  1727,  Mr.  Carr  married  for  his  third 
wife  Sarah  Greeley.  Richard  and  Dorothy  Carr  had  the 
following-named  children  : — - 

Samuel,  born  June  16,  1686. 

Dorothy,  '•     July  20,  1688. 

Elizabeth,  "     June  9,  1691. 

Richard,  "     January  3,  1693-4. 

By  his  second  marriage  Mr.  Carr  had  two  sons,  namely  : — 

James,  born  November  30,  1702. 
John,         •'     in  August,  1706. 

By  his  third  marriage  Mr.  Carr  had  no  children.  He  died 
September  11,  1727. 

On  the  one  hundred  and  eighth  page  of  "  Ould  Newbury," 
last  Hne,  "  Dec.  26,  1647,"  should  read  "  May  26,  1647." 

On  the  one  hundred  and  fifty-fifth  page,  fifth  line  from  the 
bottom  of  the  page,  "Dudley  Atkins  Tyng "  should  read 
"  Dudley  Atkins." 

On  the  one  hundred  and  seventy-first  i:)age,  fifth  line  from 
the  top  of  the  page,  "  Samuel  Brocklebank  Coffin  "  should 
read  "  Brocklebank  Samuel  Coffin." 

'  Salem  Witchcraft  (Charles  \V.  Upham),  volume  II,  pages  225-238. 
'^  Old  Families  of  Salisbury  and  Amesbury  (Hoyt),  volume  I,  page  87. 


580 


APPENDIX 


Henrv  Sewall,  oldest  son  of  Henry  and  Margaret  (Graze- 
brook)  Sewall,  was  baptized  in  St.  Michael's  church,  Coven- 
try, England,  April  8,  1576.  Remarried  Anne  Hunt,  prob- 
ably,' and  came  to  Newbury  when  he  was  nearly  sixty  years 
of  age,  with,  perhaps,  a  second  wife,  named  Ellen,  according 
to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records. 

With  the  consent  &  att  the  desire  of  Henry  Seawall  &  Ellen  his  wife, 
the  Court  hath  ordered  that  his  said  wife  shalbe  att  herowne  disposeall, 
for  the  place  of  her  habitacon,  &  that  her  saide  husband  shall  allowe 
her  her  weareing  app"ell  &  XXi  p  ann,  to  be  paide  quarterly,  as  also  a 
bedd  with  furniture  to  it.- 

Mr.  Sewall  was  exceedingly  irritable,  easily  provoked,  and 
at  times  mentally  unbalanced,  or  perhaps  mildly  insane.  He 
was  dissatisfied  with  the  quantity  and  cjuality  of  the  land 
granted  him  by  the  town  of  Newbury,  and  appealed  to  the 
General  ("ourt  for  relief. 

[March  12,  1637-S]  Mr.  Henry  Seawall's  business  &  difference  wth 
the  towne  of  Neweberry  is  referd  to  Mr  John  Winthrope.  junior,  Mr 
Richrd  Saltonstall  &  Mr  Symon  Bradstreete  to  heare  &  to  certify  how 
they  find  the  case  to  the  General  Courte.3 

This  committee,  finding  no  cause  for  complaint,  made  no 
report,  and  the  town  of  Newbury,  after  careful  consideration, 
decided  to  make  no  change  in  the  bounds  and  limits  of  the 
grant.  This  decision  was  evidently  unsatisfactory  to  Mr. 
Sewall,  and  for  his  subsec^uent  misconduct  he  was  ordered  to 
appear  at  the  Ipswich  court  and  give  bond  for  his  future 
good  behavior. 

[March  3,  1639-40]  Mr.  Henry  Seawall,  for  his  contemptuous  speech 
&  carriage  to  Mr  Saltonstall,  was  enjoyned  to  acknowledg  his  fault  pub- 
lickely  at  Ipswich  Court  &  to  bee  of  good  behavior  tS:  was  enjoyned  to 
appear  at  the  next  Quarter  Court,  vnles  the  Court  of  Ipswich  do  release 

1  History  of  Newbury  (Coffin),  page  317;  "  Ould  Newbury":  Historical  and 
Biographical  Sketches,  page  247. 

2  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records  (October  6,  1635),  volume  I,  page  163. 
2  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  222. 


APPENDIX  581 

him  from  the  good  behavic  &  from  his  appearance  at  the  Quarter 
Court,  hee  bound  himself c  in  66_^  13s  4d  for  his  appearance  and  good 
behavic.' 

Sev^eral  months  previous  to  his  quarrel  with  Mr.  Salton- 
stall  he  was  accused  of  assaulting  his  wife. 

Henry  Seawall,  being  p'sented  by  the  grandiury  for  beating  his  wife, 
is  referd  to  the  Court  of  Ipswich  to  examine  &  hee  to  appear  wt'iout 
any  new  summons. - 

XMien  the  new  settlement  on  the  right  bank  of  Merrimack 
river  was  decided  upon  and  laid  out,  in  1645,  Mr.  Sewall 
removed  to  Rowley.  In  October,  1650,  he  was  accused 
of  disturbing  the  congregation  assembled  for  public  worship 
in  the  meeting  house  in  that  town,  and  also  for  assaulting  the 
son  of  William  Acey  and  "  drawing  blood. "^ 

In  December,  1650,  Humfrey  Rayner,  Thomas  Mighell, 
Ezekiel  Northend  and  Matthew  Boyce  of  Rowley  certified 
that  Mr.  Showell  was  walking  in  the  foremost  seat  in  the 
meeting-house  of  Rowley,  near  the  pulpit.  Rev.  Ezekiel 
Rogers  being  present  and  ready  to  step  into  the  pulpit  to 
begin  prayer,  said,  "  Mr.  Showell,  cease  your  walking."  Mr. 
Showell  answered,  "  You  should  have  come  sooner,"  etc. 
Showell  continuing  his  walk,  the  pastor  said,  "  Mr.  Showell, 
remember  where  you  are  ;  this  is  the  house  of  God."  Mr. 
Showell  answered  with  a  loud  v^oice,  "  I  know  how  to  behave 
myself  in  the  house  of  God  as  well  as  you,"  etc.  Then  the 
pastor  said,  "  Rather  than  that  he  disturb  the  congregation, 
put  him  out."  Mr.  Showell  replied,  "  Let  us  see  who  dare." 
After  this  a  brother  spoke  to  him  in  a  friendly  way,  but  Mr. 
Showell,  with  a  stern  countenance  and  threatening  manner, 
said  he  would  take  a  course  with  some  of  us,  etc.  On  another 
Lord's  day,  Mr.  Showell  was  walking  in  the  meeting-house,  a 

'  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  286. 
*  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  Records,  volume  I,  page  233, 
^  The  Essex  Anticjuarian,  volume  IX,  page  4^. 


582 


APPENDIX 


part  of  the  congregation  being  assembled,  he,  looking  up, 
said,  "  Good  Lord,  this  day  is  spent,  I  know  not  how,  and 
nothing  is  yet  done,"  expressing  some  troiible  in  other 
words,' 

For  these  contemptuous  speeches  Henry  Sewall  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Ipswich  court  March  26,  165  i,  and  ordered  to 
make  acknowledgement  in  the  Rowley  meeting-house  or  pay 
a  fine  of  forty  shillings.  He  accepted  the  first  alternative, 
and  made  the  following  acknowledgement : — 

I  Henry  Sewall  being  pisented  to  the  Court  holden  at  Ipswich  in  the 
first  month  165  i  for  contemptuous  speaches  &  gestures,  to  the  reverend 
Mr  Ezeekiell  Rogers  &  others  in  the  publiqe  meeting;  and  the  truth 
thereof  being  prooved  by  full  Testimony ;  vpon  which  as  part  of  ye 
fentence  I  am  inioyned  to  make  my  confession  &  acknowledgment  of 
my  great  sinne  against  god  &  offence  against  his  messinger  &  espetially 
in  charging  Matthew  Boyse  about  buying  my  howse  for  the  removall  of 
me  out  of  Towne  which  was  denyed  by  him  &  not  proved  by  me.  I  doe 
now  in  the  presence  of  god  &this  reverand  assemblage  freely  acknowledg 
my  evell  according  to  the  full  extent  of  the  Testimonies  and  doe  earnest- 
ly desire  you  all  to  pray  to  the  god  of  all  wisdom  &  grace  to  pardon 
these  &  all  other  my  sinnes  and  to  guide  me  in  his  blessed  wayes  of 
Truth  &  peace  for  tyme  to  come.- 

Notwithstanding  this  public  acknowledgement  and  confes- 
sion Mr.  Sewall  was  frequently  called  upon  to  apologize 
for  his  subsequent  misconduct.  In  September,  1653,  he 
was  presented  by  the  grand  jury  in  the  court  at  Ipswich 
for  misdemeanors  in  the  public  meetings  and  for  striking 
William  Acey  on  the  face  in  the  open  street.^  At  the  session 
of  the  court  held  in  March,  1654,  he  was  presented  for  push- 
ing Mr.  Jewett  in  a  very  offensive  manner  in  the  public  as- 
sembly on  the  Lord's  day  ;^  and,  March  27,  1655,  he  was  fined 
for  striking  William  Asye  and  "justleing"  Mr.  Jewett.' 

1  The  Essex  Anticjuarian,  volume  IX,  page  128;  and  History  of  Newbury  (Cof- 
fin), page  61. 

^  The  Essex  Antiquarian,  volume  IX,  page  128. 
•*  The  Essex  Antiquarian,  volume  X,  page  86. 
■*  The  Essex  Antiquarian,  volume  X,  page  176. 
*  The  Essex  Antiquarian,  volume  XI,  page  24. 


APPENDIX  583 

His  conduct  on  these  and  other  occasions  indicate  that  he 
was  not  in  his  right  mind  during  the  last  years  of  his  life. 
He  died  in  Rowley  in  March,  1657,  in  the  eighty-first  year 
of  his  age. 

On  the  two  hundred  and  forty-eighth  page  of  "  Ould  New- 
bury," eighteenth  line  from  the  top  of  the  page,  "  April  17, 
1678,"  should  read  *' August  17,  1678." 

On  the  two  hundred  and  sixty-fifth  page,  twelfth  line  from 
the  top  of  the  page,  "  1698  "   should  read  "  1697." 

On  the  two  hundred  and  ninety-fifth  page,  sixth  line  from 
the  top  of  the  page,  "Long  Button"  should  read  "Long 
Ditton." 

On  the  three  hundred  and  eighty-second  page,  third  line 
from  the  bottom  of  the  page,   "  1722  "  should  read  ''  1723." 

On  the  three  hundred  and  ninety-third  page,  "  John  Kel- 
by,"  numbered  eighty-one  in  the  list  of  names  on  that  page, 
should  read  "  John  Kelly." 

On  the  four  hundred  and  thirtieth  page,  twelfth  line  from 
the  bottom  of  the  page,  "November  3,  1728,"  should  read 
'*  December  18,  1725." 

The  communication  to  which  reference  is  made,  on  page 
four  hundred  and  fifty-one,  was  printed  in  the  Newburyport 
Daily  Herald  July  fourteenth,  and  in  the  Semi-Weekly  Her- 
ald July  16,  1841.  Another  communication,  published  March 
25,  1850,  announced  the  removal  of  the  painting  described 
in  the  first  communication. 

Some  interesting  and  quaint  epitaphs,  from  gravestones  in 
the  Old  Hill  burying-ground,  have  been  printed  on  pages  four 
hundred  and  fifty-three  to  four  hundred  and  sixty-three  of 
"  Ould  Newbury."  From  other  monuments  and  memorial 
tablets  still  standing  in  this  old  graveyard  the  following  in- 
scriptions have  been  recently  copied  by  Sidney  Perley,  esq., 
of  Salem,  Mass. 


584  APPEXDIX 

In  Memory  of 

Capt.  Jeremiah  Pearson, 

who     Departed    this     Life 

January  the  3d, 

1768, 

in         the         69^11         Year 

of  his  Age. 

Depart  7ny  Friends  dry  up  your  Tears 

I  mnft  lie  hear  till  chrift  appears 


In  Metniny  of 

CAP.J,  Gideon  Woodwell, 

who  died 

Atigst  24,   1790 

aged  70  years. 


In  Memory  of 
Capt  Nicolas  Tracy, 
who      departed       this 
Life       May      ye      23d 

1787, 
A:^  tat  is  6 1 . 


Sacred 

To  the  Memory 

of 

Mrs  Sarah  Crofs 

(The    beloved     wife     of 

Mr  Ralph  Crofs) 

who    departed    this    life 

in  a  well  grounded  hope 

of  eternal  glory, 

June      ye      13th,      1787  ; 

In     the     79''!     year     of 

his  age. 

Her  Hui'band  was  known  in  ye  gate, 

when  he  fat  among  the  elders. 


APPENDIX  585 

In  Memory  of 

Capt  William  Davenport, 

who  departed  this  Life 

Sepf  2d,  1773, 

Aged  58  Years. 

In  Memory  of 

Capt.  Moses  Brown 

who  died  at  Sea  Jany  ist  1804, 

Aged  62, 

And  his  Sons  Capt"  William 

Brown  lost  at  Sea  1 799, 

Aged  31, 

Capt  Moses  Brown  3^  drowned 

Dec  22d  1797.     Aged  27. 

/;/  inemo)y  of 

Stephen  Cross,  esq. 

iv]io  died 

Mar.  31st,  1809 

aged  78. 

Also  Isaac  his  Son 

lost  at  Sea  i  795 

^t.  27. 

Sacred  to  the  memory 

of 
M  r  R  a  1  p  h    C  r  o  f  s  , 
Who  ferved  God  &  the  Prefbeterian 
Church  as  a   ruling  Elder  in  this 
town      more      than      XL      years 
being  a   faithful   reprover  of  vice 
both      in      public      and      private 
Finifh'd  a  life  of  Exemplary  piety 
in  a  well  Grounded  hope 
of  eternal  glory 

Janr    ye     4th    1788;     In     the     82d 
year  of  his  age  . 

Glory  with  all  her  lamps  jhall  burn 
And  watch  the  Chtijtians  fleepins^  clay 
Till  the  la/t  trumpet  roufe  his  urn 
To  aid  the  triumph  of  the  day. 


586  APPENDIX 

^■>^  -^  o^ 

Mr.  Philip  Coombs, 

who  died  in  France  Jany  1757; 

M.\.  52  ; 

And  Mrs.  Lydia  Coombs; 

his  wife, 

who  died  June  23rd  i  7^4  ^t.  78  ; 

The  hifluence  of  real  piety  prevailed  thro  their 
Characters,  &^  reflected  a  lufture  on  the  Religion  of 
Jefus,  which  they  efnin^^tly  adorn'' d,  &^  for  many 
years  were  diftinguifed  fne/nbers  of  the 
Prefbyterian  Church  in  this  Town. 

Great  God,  to  thee  we  raife  our  fong, 
Thine  were  the  graces  that  eniich'd  their  minds 
We  blefs  thee  that  they  fhone  fo  bright, 
And  left  fo  fair  a  track  of  pious  life  behind. 


In  Memory  of 
Mrs  Jane  Coombs, 

late  Confort  of 
Mr  William  Coombs 
who  Died  April  gth  1 783 
Aged  44  Years. 
The  Woes  on  Woes  have  fadden\i  thy  laft  years 
And  Anguijh  keen,  has  caufd  a  sea  of  tears 
Heav''n  wounds  to  heal,  marks  the  long  labVing  breaft 
Difsolves  the  flight,  and  guides  thee  to  thy  reft. 


Sacred 

to  the  memory  of 

William  Coombs,  Jun. 

Son  of  Mr  William  and 

Mrs  Jane  Coombs 

who  died 

January  7th  1785  aged 

1 8  years 


APPENDIX 

In  Memory  of 

Mr  William  Coombs 

who  slept  in  Jesus 

May  28,  18 14,  .'Et  78 

A  bright  example 

of  all  which  ennobles  the  man 

and  adorns  the  Christian ; 

he  lived  to  God, 

to  his  country  and  mankind 

and  died  universally  beloved, 

honored  and  lamented. 


5^7 


For  me  to  live  is  C/irist,  &^  to  die  is  ^ain. 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

Elder  Robert  Murray, 

Father  of  the 

Rev.  John  Murray  of  this  Town  ; 

who,  after  a  long  courfe  of  diftinguif h'd  pie'y 

departed       this      Life, 

in      full     alTurance     of 

a    blefsed    immortality, 

Dec.  13*  1790,  ALi.  91. 


Here  lies  the  Body  of 

Mrs  MARGARET   SMITH, 

Wife  of 

Docf  JOSIAH   SMITH, 

who  departed    this  Life, 

April  1 8th  1 781, 

in  the  34th  Year  of  her  Age. 

The  Spider's  moft  attenuated  Thread 

Is  Cord,  is  Cable  to  Man's  tender  tie 

On  earthly  Blifs. 


APPENDIX 

In  Memory 

of 

Capt  Benjamin   Perkins 

who  departed  this  Life 

9     of     March,       1797 

In     the     48     year   of 

his  asre. 


In  Memory  of 
Docf  Enoch  Sawyer,  who 
(after  a  long  Series  of  ye  nioft  exquiiite 
Pain  ;  which  he  bore  with  the  fortitude 
of  the  Hero,  and  the  relignation  of 
a  Chriftian)  departed  this  Life 
Nov  15th  1 77 1.  Aged  77  Years. 
He  was  an  able,  experienced  Phyiician, 
and  a  truly  honeft  Man. 

No  longer  his  all  healing  art  avail' d, 
and  every  Retnedy  its  AI after  jailea. 


Vleve  darknefs   du'e/;^ 
X^uou  for  proud  l, 


Under  this  mournful  Stone 

he  the  remains  of 

ANNA, 

Wife  of 

TIMOTHY    PALMER, 

who  changed  this  mortal  Life,  for  that 

of  immortality,   on   the   21st    day    of 

JULY^D.  1786. 

In  the  3 2d  Year  of  her  age. 

O  the  sojt  commerce  .'     O  the  tender  ties, 
Clofe  t7oifted  zvith  the  Fibres  of  the  Heart  I 
Which  broken,  break  them  ;  nnd  drain  off  the  foul 
Of  human  joy  ;  and  make  it  pain  to  live — 
And  is  it  then  to  live?      When  fuch  Friends  part, 
^  Tis  the  Survivor  dies — my  Heart !  no  more. 


APPENDIX 

In  memory  of 

MR.   TIMO  TH  J '  PALME  A\ 

who  died  Dec.  ig,  1S21, 

Aged  yo. 

Also  In  memory  of 

John.,  son  of  Andreius  ana 

Elizabeth  Palmer, 

who  died  in  Amsterdam 

Dec.  4, 18 ly  ;  Aged  24. 

Here  lies  Buried 

The    Body  of    Mr 

Thomas  Savage 

Who  departed  this  Life 

August  ye  23d  1  749 
Aged  84  years  &  10  mos. 

Here  lies  the  Body 

of  Mrs.  Mehetable  Savage 

ye  wife  of  Mr  Thomas 

Savage  and  daughter 

to  Mr.  Henry  and  Mary 

Phillips  late  of  Boston 

who  departed  this  life 

June  6th  1737  in  ye  70th 

vear  of  her  age. 


589 


In  Memory  of 

Fortune 

A  faithful  servant 

who  died  July  16,  1804 

this  stone  is  erected  by 

Tristram  Dalton/ 


Pomp  Fuller 
Died  Sept  16,  1794,  aged  35 

Some  hearty  friend  may  drop   a   tear 
On  my  dry  bones,  and  say, 

These  once  were  strong  as  mine  appear, 
And  mine  must  l^e  as  they.' 

'  Newburyport  Herald,  March  28,  1866. 


590 


APPENDIX 


On  the  four  hundred  and  sixty-ninth  page  of  ''  Ould  New- 
bury," fourth  Hne  from  the  bottom  of  the  page,  "July  25, 
1785,"  should  read   "April  2,  1779." 

On  the  four  hundred  and  seventy-seventh  page,  the  date 
"  1841,"  in  the  note  at  the  bottom  of  the  page,  should  read 
"  1741-" 

On  the  four  hundred  and  eighty-first  page,  first  line,  the 
date  "  1796"  should  read  "  1794,"  and  "at  the  same  time," 
on  the  next  line,  should  read  "  three  years  previously." 

Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Tristram  Dalton,  whose  resi- 
dence is  described  on  pages  four  hundred  and  seventy-five  to 
four  hundred  and  eighty-three,  inclusive,  of  "  Ould  New- 
bury," married,  August  21,  1794,  Leonard  White  of  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  Rev.  Edward  Bass,  D.  D.,  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
church,  Newburyport,  ofificiating. 

The  engraving  of  Wolfe  tavern,  enlarged  and  reproduced 
in  the  half-tone  print  on  the  five  hundred  and  second  page  of 
"  Ould  Newbury,"  attracted  considerable  attention  when  it 
was  first  publisiied  in  1807.  It  was  engraved  by  William 
Hooker,  and  not  by  James  Aiken,  as  stated  on  page  five 
hundred  and  three.  See  duplicate  copy,  page  three  hundred 
and  seventy-eight,  second  volume.  History  of  Newburyport 
(Currier). 

Nancy,  only  daughter  of  Timothy  Dexter,  born  August 
16,  1776,  as  stated  on  the  five  hundred  and  seventy-sixth 
page,  married,  March  11,  1792,  Abraham  Bishop  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  Rev.  Edward  Bass.,  D.D.,  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
church,  Newburyport,  officiating. 

The  statement  on  the  five  hundred  and  eighty-fourth  page 
that  Eleazer  Johnson  died  in  1847,  leaving  only  one  son, 
Richard,  who  was  born  in  18 15,  is  incorrect.  He  left  several 
children.  His  son  Richard,  born  in  181 3  (not  181 5),  has 
descendants  now  living. 


APPENDIX  5  9 1 

The  date  '*  i^^sS,"  in  the  eleventh  Hne  on  the  six  hmnh-ed 
and  ninth  page  should  read  "  1832." 

The  clock  purchased  in  1837  ^^y  the  town  of  Nevvburyport, 
as  stated  on  the  six  hundred  and  twenty-seventh  page,  was 
placed  in  a  niche  on  the  outer  wall  of  a  brick  building  on  the 
westerly  side  of  Market  scpiare,  near  Inn  street.  Ten  or 
twelve  years  later  it  was  removed  to  a  more  conspicuous  po- 
sition on  the  market  house,  where  it  remained  until  1896, 
when  it  was  replaced  by  a  new  one,  the  gift  of  John  T.  Brown, 
esq. 

Abraham  Wheelwright  died  October  14,  1850,  not  "April 
19,  1852,"  as  printed  at  the  top  of  page  six  hundred  and 
forty-five.  His  wife,  Rebecca  (Knight)  Wheelwright,  died 
November  5,  1835.  Elizabeth  Cogswell  Wheelwright,  who 
married  George  Greenleaf  October  19,  18 13,  died  May  7, 
1844,  not  "in  May,  1894,"  as  printed  on  the  above-named 
page.  Mr.  Greenleaf  married  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  S. 
Huse   (widow),  September  21,  1847. 

In  the  sixth  line  from  the  top  of  the  six  hundred  and  sixty- 
seventh  page,  after  the  name  "  Mary  Perkins  "  add  the  word 
"  Johnson." 

"Rev.  Samuel  J.  May,"  in  the  ninth  line  from  the  bottom 
of  the  six  hundred  and  ninety-first  page,  should  read  "  Rev. 
Joseph  May." 


IX. 

THE    BRIGANTINE    WARREN. 

The  thirty-two  gun  frigate  Warren  was  one  of  several  ves- 
sels built  in  1776  under  an  act  passed  by  the  Continental 
congress  for  the  defence  of  the  sea-coast.'  She  was  well 
equipped  for  active  service  and  captured  and  sent  into 
port  several  valuable  prizes.  In  July,  1779,  under  the 
command  of  Capt.  Dudley  Saltonstall,  she  was  ordered,  with 
other  vessels  belonging  to  the  navy,  to  the  mouth  of  Pe- 
nobscot river.  After  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  dislodge 
the  English  forces  at  that  place,  she  escaped  up  the  river,  and 
was  subsequently  destroyed  to  prevent  her  from  falling  into 
the  hands  of  the  enemy.' 

In  1799,  a  smaller  vessel, — the  brigantine  Warren,  carrying 
eighteen  guns, — was  built,  under  the  supervision  of  Nich- 
olas Johnson  of  Newburyport,  by  Daniel  Webster  of  Salis- 
bury. She  was  launched  September  26,  1 799,  and  was  after- 
wards fitted  for  sea  in  Newburyport.  Some  interesting  facts 
relating  to  her  construction  and  subsequent  career  will  be 
found  in  the  following  pages. 


Navy  Department,  April  4,  1799. 
Sir. 

The  favorable  Reports  I  have  received  respecting  the  ship  of  War 
Merrimack,  built  under  the  direction  of  the  Committee  at  Newbury 
Port,  of  which  you  were  a  member,  incline  me  to  have  built  at  the  same 
place  one  of  the  18  Gun  Brigs  authorized  by  Congress  at  their  last 
session. 

1  History  of  the  United  States  Xa\'y  (Maclay),  volume  I,  page  36. 

^  History  of  the  I'nited  States  Navy  (Maclay),  volume  I,  pages  97-100. 


APPENDIX  593 

From  vour  knowledge  and  experience  I  flatter  myself  that  under  your 
superintendence  the  public  will  obtain  a  valuable  vessel.  I  request, 
therefore,  that  you  will  immediately  make  arrangements  for  building  a 
Briga  calculated  to  carry  Eighteen  9  Pounders  with  advantage,  agreea- 
bly to  such  model  and  dimensions  as  you  shall  approve.  She  must  be 
built  of  the  best  seasoned  Timber  your  country  affords,  and  completed 
within  as  short  a  period  as  may  consist  with  a  faithful  execution  of  the 
workmanship.  Her  construction  should  be  calculated  to  unite  strength 
with  fast  sailing,  she  should  have  room  enough  in  her  hold  to  carry 
Water  and  Provisions  for  100  to  120  men  for  6  months  and  her  Tonnage 
must  not  exceed  360  Tons.  You  will  please  to  observe  that  the  Law 
will  not  admit  of  these  vessels  carrying  more  than  18  Guns,  they  cannot 
exceed  that  number,  for  which  they  must  be  calculated  in  the  first  in- 
stance, and  I  presume  may  be  made  as  formidable  as  any  vessels  in  the 
world  of  the  same  size.  I  rely  entirely  on  your  good  judgment  in  the 
execution  of  this  business,  and  think  it  unnecessary  to  furnish  either 
model  or  dimensions  from  hence.  I  am  particular  as  to  the  number  of 
Guns  because  our  Captains  are  very  fond  of  introducing  additional  Guns 
and  by  this  means  crowding  their  vessels  without  any  manner  of  use. 

When  the  vessel  is  completed  it  will  be  proper  that  I  should  be  fur- 
nished with  a  draft  of  her  in  order  that  if  she  proves  to  possess  supe- 
rior good  qualities,  her  model  may  be  adopted  in  future. 

You  will  be  pleased  to  advise  me  from  time  to  time  of  the  progress 
made  and  of  the  sums  to  be  remitted  you.  Your  commission  for  this 
service  will  be  two  p  cent  as  heretofore,  and  your  Accounts  for  the  Ex- 
penditure are  to  be  transmitted  to  Mr.  Winder  agreeably  to  the  forms  he 
has  pointed  out. 

The  Briga  must  be  copper  bolted  and  sheathed.  If  you  cannot  pro- 
cure the  bolts,  spikes  &c  give  me  timely  notice  and  I  will  endeavour  to 
forward  them  from  this  place. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be.  Sir, 

Your  obedt  &  hble  Servent, 

Ben    Stoddert. 

Nicholas  Johnson  Esq, 
Newbury  Port.' 

The  vessel  was  built  at  Salisbury  under  the  supervision  of 
Capt.  Nicholas  Johnson,  as  stated  in  the  notices  published  in 
the  Newburyport  Herald. 

'  Papers  in  the  possession  of  the  Old  Newbury  Historical  Society. 


594  APPENDIX 

Yesterday  a  fine  coppered  ship  called  the  Warrex,  of  iS  guns,  was 
launched  at  Salisbury  from  the  yard  of  Mr.  Daniel  Webster.  The  river 
Merrimack  has  been  justly  celebrated  for  the  excellent  vessels  it  has 
produced.  Mr.  Webster  has  added  to  the  number  of  those  which  are 
allowed  to  be  superior  in  materials  and  workmanship.  The  Warrex 
has  a  figure  head,  which  gentlemen  pronounce  to  be  a  striking  likeness 
of  the  Hero  whose  name  she  bears. 

Capt.  Timothy  Newman  of  this  town  is  appointed  to  the  command 
of  the  Warren.' 

The  beautiful  U.  S.  ship  Warren,  Timothy  Newman,  E,sq.,  com- 
mander, now  lying  in  this  harbor,  is  completely  rigged  and  has  nearly 
her  full  complement  of  men — fine  hardy  sons  of  Neptune,  shipped  with- 
out solicitation,  to  defend  the  insulted  commerce  of  their  country.  She 
only  waits  orders  to  proceed  to  President's  roads.  May  she  be  as  use- 
ful as  she  will  be  ornamental  to  our  young  navy.^ 

Yesterday  the  U.  S.  ship  Warren,  Capt.  T.  Newman,  sailed  from  this 
port  for  the   President's  Road.^ 

She  arrived  safely  at  her  destination,  and  Captain  Johnson 
was  subsequently  authorized  to  make  certain  payments  to  the 
officers  and  crew,  as  stated  in  the  following  letter : — 

Boston,  Nov.  28tii,  1799. 
Sir. 

I  have  to  inform  you  of  the  Warren's  anchoring  in  Nantasket  roads. 
Capt.  Tappan  is  alongside  delivering  the  stores  on  board.  Tomorrow 
morning  expect  to  come  up  to  President  road.  The  ship  proves  very 
well  &  no  doubt  will  sail  very  fast.  It  will  be  necessary  to  take  in  10  or 
12  tons  more  Pig  iron  to  bring  her  by  the  stern.  We  want  17  to  com- 
pleat  our  complement  of  men,  viz  : — 9  able  seamen,  7  ordinary  seamen, 
and  one  boy,  exclusive  of  one  Boatswain's  mate,  one  Master  at  Arms,  & 
one  Quarter  Gunner,  all  of  which  1  expect  may  be  easily  procured.  By 
despatches  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  I  may  soon  expect  to  receive 
sailing  orders. 

I  am  sir 

Your  obedient  servant 

Timothy  Newman. 
Capt.  Nicholas  Johnson,  Navy  Agent. 

1  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Clazette,  September  27,  1799. 
-  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  November  12,  1799. 
■'  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette,  November  26,  1 799. 


APPENDIX 


595 


Navy  Department, 

26tii  F'eby   1800. 
Sir. 

I  am  honored  with  your  letter  of  the  3rd  instant. 

The  charge  of  250  I)rs  which  you  have  made  for  superintending  the 
building  of  the  ship  Warren  appears  reasonable  and  is  allowed.  The 
balance  due  you  on  the  adjustment  of  your  accounts  shall  be  remitted  as 
soon  as  the  accountant  makes  his  report  to  me  thereon. 

Enclosed  herewith  is  a  list  of  the  powers  of  Atto  left  by  the  crew  of 
the  ship  Warren  to  receive  part  of  their  pay  in  their  absence,  agreeably 
to  which,  if  the  powers  be  authenticated  by  the  signatures  of  the  Cap- 
tain &  Purser  of  the  ship,  you  will  be  pleased  to  make  the  payments 
quarterly  as  they  become  due,  and  advertise  in  the  News  papers  for  the 
persons  holding  the  powers  to  apply  to  you. 

Timothy  Turner  Esquire,  accountant  of  this  department,  will  point 
out  the  mode  of  keeping  the  accounts  &  of  taking  receipts,  to  which  you 
will  be  pleased  to  conform. 

Whenever  you  hear  of  the  arrival  of  the  \'essel  at  any  port  of  the 
United  States,  it  will  be  proper  to  suspend  all  further  payments  and  to 
send  to  this  office  immediately,  and  to  the  purser,  an  account  of  all  the 
monies  <S:c  paid  as  aforesaid,  that  the  proper  stoppages  may  be  made  in 
settlement  with  the  men. 

A  remittance  of  2000  Dollars  is  now  ordered  to  enable  you  to  make 
the  payments  for  the  first  quarter. 

1  have  the  honor  to  be 

Sir,  yr  mo  ob.  ser. 

Ben  Stoddert. 


P.  S.  Although  the  payments  are  directed  to  be  paid  quarterly, 
which  is  intended  as  a  measure  of  safety,  lest  payments  might  be  made 
for  services  of  people  who  had  ceased  to  perform  them,  yet  when  appli- 
cation is  made  by  persons  who  appear  to  be  really  in  want,  you  may  dis- 
pense with  the  general  rule  and  pay  them  monthly.  B.  S. 

Nicholas  Johnson,  Esq. 


The  Warren  was  nearly  four  hundred  tons  register.  She 
carried  eighteen  heavy  guns  and  one  hundred  and  sixty  men. 
Under  the  command  of  Timothy  Newman,  she  was  ordered, 
in  November,  i  799,  to  cruise  in  the  Caribbean  sea,  near  the 


596  APPENDIX 

island  of  Cuba,  in  company  with  the  Norfolk,   Capt,  William 
Bainbridge,  and  the  Pinckney,  Samuel  Heywood,  master. 

Capt.  Timothy  Newman  died  August  15,  1800.  Previous 
to  that  date,  the  president  had  been  authorized,  by  an  act  of 
congress,  to  reduce  the  number  of  vessels  in  the  navy,  and 
twelve  months  later  fifteen  or  twenty  ships,  brigs  and  sloops 
of  war  were  withdrawn  from  active  service  and  subsequently 
condemned  as  unseaworthy.  The  Warren  was  sold  in  Boston 
in  1 80 1. 


X. 

SELECTMEN    ELECTED    IN    NEWBURVPORT, 

1 764  TO    1 8  5  I . 

Newburyport  was  incorporated  January  28,  1764.  The 
first  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  quahfied  to  vote  in  town 
affairs  was  held  February  8,  1764.  The  names  of  the 
selectmen  elected  at  that  date,  and  at  the  annual  elections 
subsequently  held,  are  as  follows  : — 

Elected.  Selectmen. 

February  8,  1764.        Stephen  Cross,  Enoch  Titcomb,jr.,  Timothy  Pike, 

Daniel  Farnham  and  William  Atkins.' 
March  15,  1764.  Daniel  Farnham,  Timothy  Pike,    Enoch  Titcomb, 

William  Atkins  and  Stephen  Cross. 
March  19,  1765.  Daniel    Farnham,    John    Berry,    Robert    Roberts, 

Cutting  Moody  and  Ebenezer  Little. 
March  18,  1766.  Daniel  Farnham,  Robert  Roberts,  Benjamin  Green- 

leaf,  Dr.  John  Sprague  and  John  Berry. 
March  24,  1767.  Dudley    Atkins,     Moses     Bradstreet,      Benjamin 

Greenleaf,     Samuel     Greenleaf      and      Robert 

Roberts. 
March  16,  1768.  Ralph  Cross,    Benjamin    Greenleaf,    John    Berry, 

Daniel  Farnham  and  Robert  Roberts. 
March  22,  i  769.  Daniel  Farnham,  Ralph  Cross,  John  Berry,  William 

Atkins  and  Edmund  Bartlet. 
March  20,  1770.  Ebenezer    Greenleaf,^    Daniel    Dole    and   Cutting 

Bartlet. 
March  13,  1771.  Tristram  Dalton,  John  Lowell,     Matthew  Perkins, 

John  Stickney  and  David  Moody. 

1  The  name  of  William  Atkins  does  not  appear  in  the  reiiorl  of  the  first  meeting 
made  by  the  town  eleik,  l)Ut  he  was  evidently  elected  one  of  the  selectmen,  and 
signed  the  warrant  for  a  town  meeting  March  2,  1764.  (See  Newburyport  'lown 
Records,  volume  I,  page  10.) 

-  Excused  March  23,  1770,  and  William  Atkins  elected  to  till  the  vacancy. 

597 


598  APPENDIX 

March     2,  1772.  Benjamin  Greenleaf,  Tristram  Dalton,  John  Low- 

ell, Stephen  Cross  and  Abel  Greenleaf. 
March     i,  1773.  John  Stickney,  Richard  Smith,  Jonathan  Titcomb 

and  Alathew  Perkins. 
March    S,  1774.  Tristram  Dalton,'   Benjamin  Greenleaf,-  Jonathan 

Titcomb,  Stephen  Cross  and  John  Lowell. 
March    9,  1775.  Jonathan  Titcomb,    John  Lowell,    Stephen  Cross, 

Richard  Smith  and  Abel  Greenleaf. 
March  14,  1776.  John    Lowell,   Tristram   Dalton,    Abel  Greenleaf, 

Jonathan  Marsh  and  Moses  Little. 
March  21,  1777.  Jonathan  Titcomb,  Abel  Greenleaf,  Moses  Little, 

Samuel  Tufts  and  Jacob  Boardman. 
March  19,  1778.  Jonathan  Titcomb,  Abel  Greenleaf,  Samuel  Tufts, 

Moses  Little  and  Moses  Fraizer. 
March    9,  1779.  Jonathan  Titcomb,  Abel  Greenleaf,  Samuel  Tufts, 

Moses  Fraizer  and  Moses  Little. 
March    9,  17S0.  Jonathan  Titcomb,  Samuel  Tufts,  Moses  Fraizer, 

Abel  Greenleaf  and  Nathaniel  Tracy. 
March  12,  I  781.  Jonathan  Titcomb,    Samuel  Tufts,  Moses  Fraizer, 

Abel  Greenleaf  and  Nathaniel  Tracy. 
March  18,  1782.  Enoch  Titcomb,  Nathaniel  Tracy,3  Moses  Brown, 

Nicolas  Pike  and  Jonathan  MuUiken. 
March  12,  1783.  Joseph  Moulton,  jr.,4  Edward  Wigglesworth,  David 

Coats,  Michael  Hodge  and  WiUiam  Coombs. 
March  10,  17S4.  Edward    Wigglesworth,    David     Coats,    William 

Coombs,  Michael  Hodge  and  William  Bartlet. 
March  16,  17S5.  Edward    Wigglesworth,    David    Coats,     Michael 

Hodge,  William  Bartlet  and  William  Coombs. 
March  15,  1786.  Jonathan  Titcomb,  Moses  Fraizer,  David  Moody, 

John  Fletcher  and  Joseph  Huse. 
March  20,  1787.  Joseph  Huse,    Benjamin  Balch,    Thomas  Thomp- 

son, George  Searle  and  Josiah  Smith. 
March  26,  1788.  Benjamin  Balch,Thomas  Thompson,  Joseph  Noyes, 

William  P.  Johnson  and  Edward  Rand. 


'  Tristram  Dalton  declined  serving,  and  Richard  Smith  was  chosen  in  his  place. 

■^  March  11,  1774,  Benjamin  (ireenleaf  declined  to  serve  as  selectman,  and  Abel 
Greenleaf  was  chosen  in  his  place. 

■*  Mr.  Tracy  declined  to  serve,  and  [onathan  Marsh  was  elected  in  his  place 
March  21,  1782. 

"•  Mr.  Moulton  declined  to  serve  March  19,  1783,  and  William  Bartlett  was 
elected  in  his  place. 


APPENDIX  599 

March  lo,  1789.  Thomas  Thompson,  Benjamin  Balch,  WilHam   P. 

Johnson,  Edward  Rand  and  Joseph  Noyes. 

March    9,  1790.  Joseph  Noyes,  Edward  Rand,  Thomas  Thompson, 

John  O'Brien  and  Nicholas  Johnson. 

March     8.  1791.  Joseph  Noyes.  John  O'Brien.    Nicholas  Johnson," 

Anthony  Davenport  and  Henry  Hudson. 

March     S,  1792.  Moses   Hoyt,    Anthony   Davenport,"    Henry   Hud- 

son,- John  O'Brien, =  and  Nathaniel  Carter,  jr. 

March  12,  1793.  John  Mycall,  Nathan  Hoyt.  Bishop  Norton,  Thom- 

as Thompson,.'  and  Joshua  Carter. 

March  12,  1794.  William    Noyes,    John    Mycall, ^    Joshua     Carler,4 

John  Pettengel,4   and  Theophilus  Bradbury,  Jr.4 

March  17,  1795.  John    Pettengel,   Theophilus  Bradbury,  jr.,    Eben- 

ezer  Stocker,?  Daniel  Hortons  and  Oilman 
White.f' 

March  10,  1796.  John  i'ettengel,  Theophilus  Bradbury,  jr.,    Daniel 

Horton,  Ebenezer  Stocker  and  Oilman  White. 

March  22,  1797.  Abraham  Wheelwright,   Leonard  Smith,   Isaac   O. 

Pearson,  Simeon  Tufts  and  Samuel  A.  Otis. 

March  15,  1798.  Abraham  Wlieelwright,    Leonard  Smith,    Samuel 

A.  Otis,  John  Pearson,  jr.,  and  Charles  C. 
Raboteau. 

March  19,  1799.  Charles    C.    Raboteau,    Jonathan    Oage,   William 

Wyer,  jr.,  Thomas  1\L  Clark  and  James  Prince. 

March  26.  1800.  Nehemiah    Haskell,  John  B.  Titcomb,  John   Fitz, 

Alexander  Caldwell  and  Moses  Hoyt. 

March  17,  iSoi.  Moses  Brown,  William  Bartlet,   Nicholas  Johnson, 

Abner  \V"ood  and  Benjamin  Balch. 

March  22.  1802.  Abner  Wood,   Lsrael  Young.    Jonathan  Oage,  An- 

thony Davenport  and  John  Greenleaf,  jr. 

March  22,  1803.  Abner  Wood,   Israel  Young,    Jonathan  Oage,  An- 

thony Davenport,  and  John  Oreenleaf. 

'  Nicholas  lohnson  was  excused  from  serving  as  selectman  March  22,  179I>  arif' 
William  Coombs  was  chosen  in  his  place,  but  declined  to  serve,  and  Moses  Hoyt 
was  elected  April  4,  1791. 

■•^  Anthony  Davenport,  Henry  Hudson  and  John  O'Brien  resigned,  and  Richard 
Bartlet,  Samuel  Bayley  and  John  Mycall  were  chosen  members  of  the  board  of 
selectmen  March  22,  1792. 

•*  Thomas  Thompson  was  excused  from  serving,  and  John  I'ettengell  was  elected 
in  his  place  March  i8,  1793 

•*  Chosen  March  24,  1794. 

"  Chosen  .-\pril  27,  1795. 

''  Chosen  April  6,  1795. 


6oo 


APPENDIX 


March  20,  1S04.  Samuel    French,   jr.,    Joshua    Toppan,     Benjamin 

Wyatt,  Gilman  White  and  Edward  Little. 

March  21,  1805.  Samuel    French,    jr.,    Joshua    Toppan,    Benjamin 

Wyatt,  Gilman  White  and  Edward  Little. 

March  19,  1806.  Zebedee    Cook,    John  Peabody,  David  Coffin,  jr., 

Samuel  Foster,  jr.,  and  Robert  Foster. 

March  18,  1807.  Zebedee  Cook,  John  Peabody,   Samuel  H.  Foster, 

Robert  Foster  and  Abraham  Perkins. 

March  16,  1808.  Zebedee     Cook,    Abraham     Perkins,     Daniel     A. 

White,  Stephen  Holland  and  Amos  Toppan. 

March  15,  1809.  Daniel  A.  White,  Stephen  Holland,  Amos  Toppan, 

Jeremiah  Nelson  and  Sewell  Toppan. 

March  21,  18 10.  Stephen  Holland,    Jeremiah  Nelson,    Sewell  Top- 

pan,  William  Woart  and  Jacob  Stone. 

March  11,  181 1.  Jeremiah     Nelson,    Jacob    Stone,     Isaac    Adams, 

Eleazer  Johnson,  and  Nicholas  Johnson,  jr. 

March  18,  181 2.  Isaac  Adams,  Nicholas  Johnson,  jr.,  Eleazer  John- 

son, Ebenezer  Moseley  and  George  Jenkins. 

March  23,  1813.  Ebenezer  Moseley,    George  Jenkins,   Isaac  Stone, 

Edward  S.  Rand  and  Joshua  Greenleaf. 

March  16,  1814.  Joshua  Greenleaf,  Isaac  Stone,  Edward  S.   Rand, 

William  B.  Bannister  and  Allen  Dodge. 

March  27,  181 5.  Joshua  Greenleaf,    Edward  S.  Rand,    William  B. 

Bannister,  Allen  Dodge  and  John  Wood. 

March     7,  1816.  William  B.  Bannister,  Edmund  Bartlet,  Ebenezer 

Gunnison,'  Robert  Clark."  and  Abraham  Wil- 
liams." 

March    6,  1817.  Ebenezer    Moseley,    Abraham    Williams,    Robert 

Clark,  Richard  Bartlet^  and  Stephen  Howard.- 

March  16,  1818.  Stephen  Howard,  Arthur  Gilman,   Samuel  Emer- 

son, John  Scott  and  Prescott  Spalding. 3 

March  11,  181 9.  Samuel  Emerson,  Arthur  Gilman,    Prescott  Spald- 

ing, Stephen  W.  Marston  and  Daniel  Swett. 

March  13,  1820.  Stephen  W.  Marston,  Daniel  Swett,  Wilham  Cross, 

Joseph  O'Brien  and  James  Prince. 

March  12,  1821.  James  Prince,  Stephen  W.  Marston,  Daniel  Swett, 

William  Cross  and  Philip  Coombs.4 


1  Elected  March  28,  18 16. 
-  Elected  March  24,  181 7. 
^  Elected  March  24,  1818. 

■*  Elected  March  29,  1821,  in  place  of  Joseph  O'Briei 
men  that  he  intended  to  remove  from  Newburyport. 


who  notified  the  select- 


APPENDIX  60 1 

March  12,  1822.  Stephen   W.    Marston,   Philip  Coombs,    Ebenezer 

Wheelwright,  John  Wood  and  Anthony  Smith. 

March  10,  1S23.  I'hilip  Coombs,    Ebenezer  Wheelwright,  Anthony 

Smith,  Ebenezer  Moseley  and  William  Davis. 

March  10,  1824.  Ebenezer  Moseley,  Ebenezer  Wheelwright,   Philip 

Coombs,  Anthony  Smith  and  \\'illiam  Davis. 

March  16.  1825.  John    Wills,    jr.,'    Samuel    S.    Plummer.    Asa  W. 

Wildes,  Whittingham  Gilman  and  Greene  San- 
born. 

March  14,  1826.  Asa    W.    Wildes,    Samuel  S.  I'lummer,    Whitting- 

ham Gilman,  Greene  Sanborn  and  John  Cook,  jr. 

March  15,  1S27.  Asa  W.  Wildes,  John  Cook,  jr.,   Thomas    Buntin, 

John  S.  Pearson  and  Moses  Merrill. 

March  to,  1828.  John     Cook,  jr„    Thomas   Buntin,  Moses   Merrill, 

Charles  H.  Balch  and  Caleb  Gushing. 

March  ii,  1.S29.  Charles  H.  Balch,  Ebenezer  Stone,  Samuel  T.  De- 

Ford,  Henry  Frothingham  and  Henry  Merrill. 

March  24,  1830.  Charles  H.  Balch.  Ebenezer  Stone,  Samuel  T.  De- 

Ford,  Henry  Frothingham  and  Henry  Merrill. 

March  28,  1831.  Charles  H.  Balch,   Ebenezer   Stone,   Henry  John- 

son, Nathaniel  Horton  and  Tristram  Coffin,  3rd. 

March  28,  1832.  Charles  H.  Balch,  Henry  Johnson,  Nathaniel  Hor- 

ton,  Stephen  Tilton  and  Tristram  Coffin.  3rd. 

March  27,  1833.  Charles  H.  Balch,  Stephen  Tilton,  Richard  Stone, 

Joseph  George  and  Ebenezer  Bradbury.- 

March  25,  1S34.  Joseph  George,    Moses  Merrill,    Offin  Boardman, 

Stephen  Frothingham  and  Nathaniel  Jackson. 

March  23,  1835.  Ebenezer    Stone,    John    N.    Gushing,  Charles   H. 

Balch,  Henry  Merrill  and  Jeremiah  Colman. 

March  28,  1836.  Charles    H.    Balch,    Ebenezer    Stone,    John     N. 

Gushing,  Henry  Merrill  and  Jeremiah  Colman. 

March  27,  1837.  Charles  H.  Balch.  Henry  Merrill,  John  N.   Gush- 

ing, Jeremiah  Colman  and  Nathaniel  Horton. 

March  29.  1838.  John    Merrill,    Isaac  Pearson,    Stephen    Caldwell, 

Jacob  Horton  and  Anthony  Knapp. 

March  25,  1^39.  John  Merrill.    Stephen    Caldwell,    Isaac    Pearson, 

Anthony  Knapp  and  Jacob  Horton. 

'  John  Cook,  jr.,  was  elected  May  5,  1825,  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by 
the  removal  of  Mr.  Wills  from  Newburyport. 

*  Declined  to  serve,  and  Amos  Xoyes  was  electetl  to  fill  the  vacancy  April  10, 
1833- 


602 


APPENDIX 


March  25,  1840.  Thomas  Buntin,  Moses  Merrill,    Isaac  H.  Board- 

man,  William  Moody  and  Moses  Davenport,  jr. 

March  22,  1841.  Thomas  Buntin,    Moses  Merrill,    Isaac  H.  Board- 

man,  Moses  Davenport,  jr.,  and  Ezra  Lunt. 

March  28,  1842.  Moses    Merrill,   George  Emery,   Samuel  Currier, • 

Edward  Toppan,  jr.,  and  John  Pearson. 

March  27,  1843.  George    Emery,    John    Pearson,     Moses    Merrill, ^ 

William  Nichols  and  Edward  Toppan,  jr. 

March  25,  1844.  John  Pearson,  Edward  Toppan,  jr.,  William  Nich- 

ols, John  Burrill^  and  John  Huse.3 

March  31,  1845.  William  Nichols,  John  Pearson,  Edward  Toppan, 

jr.,  John  BurrilU  and  John  Huse.4 

March  30,  1846.  Charles  French,  Henry  Johnson,   John  Stone,   Na- 

thaniel Horton  and  Isaac  Stevens. 

March    8,  1847.  Nathaniel  Horton,  Henry  Johnson,  Charles  French, 

John  Stone  and  Isaac  Stevens. 

March  14,  1848.  Thomas   Davis,    Albert   Currier,    Henry  Johnson, 

Robert  Bayley,  jr.,  and  Nathaniel  Horton. 

March  20,  1849.  Nathaniel  Horton,  Henry  Johnson,  Thomas  Davis, 

Albert  Currier  and  Robert  Bayley,  jr. 

March  19,  1850.  Nathaniel  Horton,  Henry  Johnson,  Thomas  Davis, 

Robert  Bayley,  jr.,  and  Albert  Currier. 

March  18,  1851.  Nathaniel  Horton,  Henry  Johnson,  John  M.  Coop- 

er, Samuel  Phillips  and  Samuel  T.  Payson. 


'  William  Nichols  chosen  April  11,  1842,  to  take  the  place  of  Samuel  Currier, 
who  had  resigned. 

2  John  Burrill,  jr.,  chosen  April  24,  1843,  to  take  the  place  of  Moses  Merrill, 
who  declined  to  serve. 

"^  Elected  at  an  adjourned  meeting  held  in  March,  1844. 

■•  At  an  adjourned  meeting  held  April  16,  1845,  Richard  Fowler  and  John  T. 
Loring  were  chosen  in  place  of  John  Burrill  and  John  Huse,  resigned. 


XI. 


MAYORS  AND  MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  ALDERMEN, 
I  85  I  TO  1909. 

An  act  to  establish  the  city  of  Newburyport  was  ap- 
proved by  Governor  Boutwell  May  24,  185 1.  This  act  was 
accepted  and  adopted,  on  the  third  of  June,  by  a  majority  of 
the  legal  voters  living  within  the  limits  of  the  town,  and  on 
the  twenty-fourth  of  that  month  the  city  government  was 
organized.  Since  that  date  the  following-named  persons  have 
served  as  mayors  of  the  city  and  members  of  the  board  of 
aldermen. 

Caleb  Cushing,  Mayor,  1851. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Nathaniel  Horton, 

"     Two         John  M.  Cooper, 


Thomas   Huse, 
John  Porter, 
Moses  Davenport, 


Thomas  Huse, 
i'hilip  Johnson, 
Moses  Davenport, 


Moses  Pettengill, 
Philip  Johnson, 
Moses  Davenport, 


•'     Three      Joseph  Roberts, 

Caleb  Cushing,"  Mayor,  1852. 
Henry  Johnson,-       ■'         1852. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Nathaniel  Horton, 

"     Two         John  M.  Cooper, 
"     Three      Joseph  Roberts,.^ 

Henry  Johnson,  Mayor,  1853. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Isaac  H.  Boardman, 

•'     Two         John  M.  Cooper, 
"     Three       Edward  Toppan, 


Ward  Four 
"  Five 
"     Six 


Ward  Four 
"      Five 
"     Six 


Ward  Four 
"     Five 
"     Six 


'  Resignation  accepted  June  21,  1852. 
2  Elected  June  21,  1852. 

•'  Died  August  12,  1852.     John    Currier,    jr.,    was    elected  to  till   the   vacancy 
August  21,  1852. 

603 


6o4  APPENDIX 

Moses  Davenport,  Mayor,  1854. 

ALDERMEN. 

David  T.  Woodwell,    Ward  One  Frederick  J.  Coffin,        Ward  Four 

William  Graves,  "     Two  Jabez  L.  Pearson,  "     Five 

Samuel  T.  Payson,  '•     Three       Geo.  W.  Jackman,  jr..        "     .Si.x 

Moses  Davenport,  Mayor,  1855. 

ALDERMEN. 

Nathaniel  Greeley,       Ward  One  Frederick  J.  Coffin,        Ward  Four 

William  Pritchard,  "     Two         Enoch  G.  Currier,  "     Five 

Samuel  T.  Payson,  "     Three       Thomas  Atwood,  "     Six 

William  Gushing,  Mayor,  1856. 

ALDERMEN. 

Nathaniel  Greeley,       Ward  One  Philip  K.  Hills,  Ward  Four 

William  Graves,  "     Two  Enoch  S.  Williams,  "      Five 

Benjamin  Davis,  jr.,         "     Three       Thomas  Atwood,  ■'     Six 

William  Gushing,  Mayor,  1857. 

ALDERMEN. 

Charles  W.  Hale,         Ward  One  Philip  K.  Hills,  Ward  Four 

William  Graves,  "     Two  Enoch  S.  Williams,  "     Five 

Benjamin  Davis,  jr.,         '•     Three       Moses  Stevens,  "     Six 

WiUiam  Gushing,  Mayor,  1858. 

ALDERMEN. 

David  T.  Woodwell,    Ward  One  Philip  K.  Hills,  Ward  Four 

William  Graves,  "     Two         Samuel  E.  Towle,  "     Five 

Benjamin  Davis,  jr.,         •'     Three       Thomas  Atwood,  "     Six 

Albert  Currier,  Mayor,  1859. 

ALDERMEN. 

Moody  D.  Cook,  Ward  One  Frederick  J.  Coffin,        Ward  Four 

Ralph  C.   Huse,  "     Two  Edward  Burrill,  "      Five 

Charles  W.  Davenport,    "     Three       Geo.  W.  Jackman,  jr.,        "     Six 

Albert  Currier,  Mayor,  i860. 

ALDERMEN, 

Isaac  Hale,  jr.,  Ward  One  Daniel  P.  Pike,  Ward  Four 

Nathaniel  W.  Hurd,         "     Two         Edward  Burrill,  "     Five 

Charles  W.  Davenport,    "     Three       Geo.  W.  Jackman,  jr.,        "     Six 


APPENDIX  605 

Moses  Davenport/  Mayor,  1861. 

George  W.  Jackman,  jr.,^      "         " 

AI.DKKMEN. 

Isaac  Hale,  jr.,  Ward  One  Jos.  A.  Frothingham,     Ward  Four 

Nathaniel  Pierce,  "     Two  William  H.  Huse,  "      Five 

George  J.  George,  '•     Three       Geo.  W.  Jackman,  jr..3       "     Six 


George  W.  Jackman,  jr..  Mayor,  1862. 

,\i,I)f:kmi-:\. 

Isaac  Hale,  jr.,4  Ward  One  Horace  Hamblett,         Ward  Four 

Nathaniel  Pierce,  •'     Two         William  H.  Huse,  '•     Five 

George  J.  George,  "     Three       Winthrop  O.  Evans,  "     Six 

Isaac  H.  Boardman,  Mayor,  1863. 

ALDERMEX. 

Samuel  Pettengell,      Ward  One  John  N.  Pike.  Ward  Four 

W^illiam  Graves,  "     Two  William  H.  Huse,  "      Five 

Norman  C.  Greenough,    "      Three       John  J.  Currier,  "      Six 


George  W.  Jackman,  jr..  Mayor,  1864. 

AI.DEKME.N. 

Samuel  Pettingell.        Ward  One  Enoch  M.  Read,  Ward  Four 

Ralph  C.  Huse.  "     Two         John  T.  Page,  "     Five 

Norman  C.  Greenough,    '■     Three       John  J.  Currier,  "     Six 


George  W.  Jackman,  jr..  Mayor,  1865. 

Al.IiKKMKX. 

Paul  G.  Lunt,  Ward  One  William  C.  Balch,  Ward  Four 

William  Pritchard,  "     Two  Thomas  H.  Cutter,  '•      Five 

Warren  Currier,  ••      Three       Moses  H.  Fowler,  '■     Six 


'  Died  February  18,  1861. 

'-  Elected  February  27,  1861. 

3  Resigned  February  27;  and  Winthrop  O.  Evans  elected  March  4,  1861,  tf)  fill 
the  vacancy. 

''  Resignation  accepted  May  seventh,  and  Charles  C.  Dame  elected  to  Hll  the 
vacancy  May  24,  1862. 


6o6 


APPENDIX 


Paul  G.  Lunt, 
Nathaniel  Pierce, 
Warren  Currier, 


Henry  T.  Moody, 
Joseph  G.  Gerrish, 
David  J.  Adams, 


Henry  T.  Moody, 
Joseph  G.  Gerrish, 
David  J.  Adams, 


Paul  G.  Lunt, 
Amos  W.  Mooney, 
David  J.  Adams, 


Luther  Dame 
Charles  T.  Smith,  jr., 
Amos  Coffin, 


William  Graves,  Mayor,  1866. 

ALDERMEN. 

W^ard  One  William  C.  Balch,  Ward  Four 

"     Two         William  H.  Huse,  "     Five 

"     Three       Moses  H.  Fowler,  "     Six 

Eben  F.  Stone,  Mayor,  1867. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Frederick  J.  Coffin,        Ward  Four 

"     Two         Nathan  A.  Moulton,  "     f^ive 

"     Three       Eben  P.  Cutter,  "     Six 

Nathaniel  Pierce,  Mayor,  1868. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Dana  Dodge,  Ward  Four 

"     Two         Elbridge  G.  Kelley,  "     Five 

"     Three       Eben  P.  Cutter,  "     Six 

Nathaniel  Pierce,  Mayor,  1 869. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  George  W.  Clark,  Ward  Four 

"     Two         John  E.  Bailey,  "     Five 

"     Three       Moses  H.  Fowler,  "     Six 

Robert  Couch,  Mayor,  1870. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  George  W.  Clark,  Ward  Four 

Two         John  E.  Bailey,  "     Five 


Three       Elbridge  K.  Batchelder, 


Six 


Paul  G.  Lunt, 
Henry  Cook, 
Samson  Levy, 


Paul  G.  Lunt, 
Henry  Cook, 
Samson  Levy, 


Elbridge  G.  Kelley,  Mayor,  1871. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Rufus  A.  Wills,  Ward  Four 

"     Two  Edward  A.  Moseley,  "     Five 

"     Three       George  W.  Jackman,  jr.,  "     Six 

Elbridge  G.  Kelley,  Mayor,  1872. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Joseph  B.  Morss,  Ward  Four 

"     Two         Edward  A.  Moseley,         "     Five 
"     Three       George  W.  Jackman,  jr.,   "     Six 


APPENDIX  607 

Warren  Currier,  Mayor,  1S73. 

ALDERMEN. 

Alfred  Osgood,  Ward  One  Joseph  B.  Morss,  Ward  Four 

Charles  H.  Goodwin,        '■     Two         Edward  P.  Russell,  "     Five 

William  P.  Plumer,  "     Three      Joseph  H.  Currier,  "     Six 

Warren  Currier,  Mayor,  1874. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ludier  Dame,  Ward  One  John  N.  Pike,  Ward  Four 

John  Augustus  Greeley,  "     Two  Harrison  G.  Johnson,  jr.,    "     Five 

Amos  Coffin,  "     Three      Joseph  H.  Currier,  "     Six 

Benjamin  F.  Atkinson,  Mayor,  1875. 

ALDERMEN, 

Luther  Dame,  Ward  One  Albert  J.  Atkinson,        Ward  Four 

John  Augustus  Greeley,    "     Two         Harrison  G.  Johnson,  jr.,    "     Five 
Amos  Coffin,  "     Three       Joseph  H.  Currier,  "     Six 

Benjamin  F.  Atkinson,  Mayor,  1876. 

ALDERMEN. 

William  Thurlow,         Ward  One  Samuel  S.  Blake,  Ward  Four 

Charles  H.  Goodwin,'       "     Two         Edward  P.  Russell,  "     Five 

Amos  Coffin,  "     Three      George  E.  Currier,  "     Six 

George  W.  Jackman,  jr..  Mayor,  1877. 

ALDERMEN. 

Francis  W.  Putnam,    Ward  One  Moses  H.  Fowler,  Ward  Four 

Charles  T.  Smith,  jr.,        "     Two  J.  Otis  Winkley,  "     Five 

Enoch  T.  Northend,         "     Three       George  E.  Currier,  "     Six 

Jonathan  Smith,  Mayor,  1878. 

ALDERMEN. 

Jacob  Knight,  Ward  One  Dudley  T.  Batchelder,  Ward  Four 

Joseph  A.  Woodwell,        "     Two         John  A.  L.  Oddie,  "     Five 

John  P.  Coombs,  "     Three       George  E.  Currier,  "     Six 

'  Resigned  April  seventh,  and  Charles  T.  Smith,  jr.,  elected   April  17,  1876,   to 
fill  the  vacancy. 


6o8 


APPENDIX 


Albert  Cheever, 
John  Woodwell, 
William  H.  Noyes, 


John  J.  Currier.  Mayor,  1S79. 

ai,I)p:kmen. 

Ward  One  Charles  L.  Ayres, 

•'     Two  Thomas  AlacKinney, 

'•     Three       John  P.  Evans, 


Ward  Four 
"     Five 
"      Six 


Albert  Cheever, 
John  Woodwell, 
William  H.  Noyes. 


John  J.  Currier,  Mayor,  18S0. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Arthur  C.  Richardson,  Ward  Four 

"     Two         J.  Otis  Winkley.  "     Five 


Three       John  P.  Evans, 


Six 


Enoch  Gerrish, 
Robert  G.  Sargent, 
Henry  M.  Cross, 


Robert  Couch,  Mayor,  1881 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One 
"  Two 
•'     Three 


Arthur  C.  Richardson,  Ward  Fou 
Joseph  Hall.  "      Five 

Jonathan  Kenniston,  "      Six 


Benjamin  Hale,  Mayor,  1882. 

ALDERMEN. 

Enoch  Gerrish,  Ward  One  Chas.H.DeRochemont,  Ward  Four 

Thomas  C.  Simpson,         "     Two         J.  Otis  Winkley,  "     Five 

Nathan  D.  Dodge,  "     Three       Jacob  T.  Rowe,  "     Six 


William  A.  Johnson,  Mayor,   1883. 

ALDERMEN. 

John  S    Frost,  Ward  One  Chas.H.DeRochemont,  Ward  Four 

Charles  H.  Goodwin,        "     Two         J.  Otis  Winkley,  "     Five 

Thomas  H.  Boardman,     "     Three      Jacob  T.  Rowe,  "     Six 


William  A.  Johnson,  Mayor,   1884. 

ALDERMEN. 

Stephen  Peabody,        Ward  One  Thomas  H.  Davis, 


George  W.  Adle, 
John  S.  Frost, 


Two  Orrin  J.  Gurney, 

Three       Melvin  T.  Wadlin, 


Ward  Four 

"     Five 
"      Six 


APPENDIX  609 

Thomas  C.  Simpson,  Mayor,  1.S85. 

AI.nERMEX. 

Enoch  Gerrish,  Ward  One  Joseph  W.  Evans,  Ward  Four 

Henry  Z.  Whittier,  •'     Two  William  R.  Johnson,  '•      Five 

Thomas  H.  Boardman,     "     Three       Benjamin  F.  Stanley,  "      Six 

Charles  C.  Dame,  Mayor,  1886. 

ALDERMEN. 

George  O.  Noyes,        Ward  One  Joseph  W.  Evans,  Ward  Four 

Henry  Z.  Whittier,  "     Two         William  R.  Johnson,  "      Five 

Charles  H.  Goodwin,        "     Three      Benjamin  F.  Stanley,  •'     Six 

J.  Otis  Winkley,  Mayor,  1887. 

ALDERMEN. 

John  J.  Putnam,  \\'ard  One  Arthur  C,  Richardson,  Ward  Four 

George  Osgood,  '•     Two         .Simon  E.  Wilson,  '•     Five 

William  F,  Houston,         "     Three       Charles  D.  Pettigrew,        "      Six 


Willi£.m  H.  Huse,'  Mayor,  1888. 
Albert  C.  Titcomb,-      "  " 

ALDERMEN. 

John  J.  Putnam,  Ward  One  Albert  C.  Titcomb,3       Ward  Four 

George  Osgood,  "     Two  Francis  A.  Howe,  "     Five 

WiUiam  F,  Houston,        "     Three       Charles  D,  Pettigrew,         •'     Six 


Albert  C.  Titcomb,  Mayor,  1889, 

ALDERMEN. 

Isaac  P,  Noyes,  Ward  One  Edmund  C.  Pearson,     Ward  Four 

W.  Herbert  Noyes,  "     Two         George  E.  Ross,  "     Five 

Joseph  T.  Chase,  jr.,         '•     Three       George  M.  Roaf,  •        "     Six 


'  Died  March  28,  188S. 
"  Elected  April  2,  1888. 

■5  Frank  W.  Hale  was  elected  April  10,   l88S,    in   place  of  Albert   C.   Titcomb, 
who  resigned  previous  to  that  date. 


6io 


APPENDIX 


Elisha  P.  Dodge,  Mayor,  1890. 

ALDERMEN. 


John  J.  Putnam,  Ward  One 

W.  Herbert  Noyes,  "     Two 

Henry  C.  Plummer,  "     Three 


Chas.H.DeRochemont,  Ward  Four 
George  E.  Ross,  "     Five 

Israel  A.   Morse,  "     Six 


EHsha  P.  Dodge,  Mayor,  1891. 


ALDERMEN". 


John  J.  Putnam,  Ward  One  Chas.H.DeRochemont,  W'ard  Four 

Alfred  Pearson,  "     Two         George  E.  Ross.  "     Five 

Edward  A.  Hale,  "     Three       Israel  A.  Morse,  '•     Six 


John  W.  Allen, 
Charles  W.  Page, 
Henry  C.  Plummer, 


Orin  J.  Gurney,  Mayor,   1892. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Charles  C.  Stockman,    Ward  Four 

"     Five 


Two         George  E.  Stickney, 
Three       Andrew  R.  Curtis, 


Six 


John  W.  Allen, 
Charles  W.   Page, 
Eben  A.  Young, 


Orin  J.  Gurney,  Mayor,   1S93. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Charles  C.  Stockman,    Ward  Four 

"     Two         George  E.  Stickney,  "     Five 

"     Three       Andrew  R.  Curtis,  "     Six 


Charles  H.  Bliss, 
Charles  W.  Page, 
Eben  A.  Young, 


Orin  J.  Gurney,  Mayor,   1894. 

ALDERMEN. 

Ward  One  Charles  C.  Stockman,    Ward  Four 

"     Two         George  E.  Stickney,  "     Five 

"     Three      Alvah  Hoyt,  "     Six 


Orin  J.  Gurney,  Mayor,   1895. 

ALDERMEN. 

Henry  J.  Noyes,  Ward  One  Philip  H.  Blamphey,  jr.,  Ward  Four 

Edward  Perkins,  "     Two         Charles  W.  Johnson,  '•     Five 

Moody  Kimball,  "     Three      Alvah  Hoyt,  "     Six 


APPEXDIX 


6ii 


Henry  J.  Noyes, 
Frank  H.  Plumer, 
Moody  Kimball, 


Andrew  R.  Curtis,  Mayor,  i  S96. 

AI.DKKMEV. 

Ward  One  Philip  H.Blamphey,  jr.,  Ward  Four 

"     Two  Charles  W.  Johnson,  "      Five 

"     Three       William  C.  Coffin,  "     Six 


Andrew  R.  Curtis,  Mayor,  1S97. 

ALDERMEN. 

Henry  J.  Noyes,  Ward  One  Abraham  A.  Crabtree.  Ward  Four 

James  I).  Lewis,  "     Two         Jere  Healey,  "      Five 


Benjamin  P.  Ireland, 


T  wo 
Three 


William  C.  Coffin, 


Six 


George  H.  I'lumer,  Mayor,  i8g8. 

ALDERMEN. 

Charles  L.  Perkins,      Ward  One  Abraham  A.  Crabtree,  Ward  Four 


Thomas  Huse, 
Benjamin  P.  Ireland, 


Two         Jere  Healy,  "     F^ive 

Three       George  W.  Cooper,  "     Six 


Thomas  Huse,  Mayor,  1899. 

ALDERMEN. 

Eben  C.  Knight,  Ward  (^ne  William  G.  Fisher, 

James  F.  Carens,  "     Two         John  H.  Balch,jr., 

Irvin  Besse,  "     Three      Albert  H.  Beckford, 


Ward  Four 
"  Five 
"     Six 


Thomas  Huse,  Mayor,  1900. 

ALDERMEN. 

Eben  C.  Knight,  Ward  One  William  G.  Fisher, 

James  F.  Carens,  "     Two  Arthur  Withington, 

Irvin  Besse,  "     Three       Albert  H.  Beckford, 

Andrew  J.  Casey  Alderman  at  large.,' 


Ward  P^our 
"  Five 
"      Six 


'Acts   and    Resolves,    chapter     101,    accepted    by    the    city    of    Newburyport 
November  7,  1899,  provided  for  the  election  of  an  alderman  at  large. 


6 1  2  APPENDIX 

Moses  Brown,  Mayor,  1901. 

ALDERMEX. 

John  \V.  Sargent,         Ward  One  William  Balch,  Ward  Four 

Clarence  J.  Fogg,  "      Two  Arthur  Withington,  "  Five 

Luther  Dame,  "     Three      Job  Weston,  "  Six 

Alfred  Pearson,  Alderman  at  large. 

Moses  Brown,  Ma3'or,  1902. 

AT.DEKMEN. 

John  W.  Sargent,         Ward  One          William  Balch,  Ward  F^our 

Clarence  J.  Fogg,             "     Two         Samuel  J.  Hughes,  "      Five 

Benjamin  P.  Ireland,        "     Three       John  M.  Chase,  "       Six 
Luther  Dame,  Alderman  at  large. 

James  F.  Carens,  Mayor,  1903. 

AT. DERM  EN. 

George  F.  Woodman,  Ward  One  Charles  W.   Ayers,  Ward  Four 

Moody  B.  Noyes,  "      Tvvo  .Andrew  R.  Curtis,  "      Five 

Benjamin  P.  Ireland,         "     Three      John  M.  Chase,  "       Six 

Robert  G.  Dodge,  Alderman  at  large. 


James  F.  Carens,  Mayor,  1904. 

AT, DERM  EX. 

George  F.  Woodman,  Wai'd  One  Chai^les  P.  Kelley,  Ward  Four 

Moody  B.   Noyes,  "     Two  Andrew  R.  Curtis,  "      Five 

Benjamin  P.  Ireland,         "     Three       John  M.  Chase,  "      Six 

Charles  W.  Ayei's,  Alderman  at  large. 

William  F.  Houston,  Mayor,  1905. 

ALT)ERMEN. 

Joseph  L.  Jacoby,         Ward  One          Charles  P.  Kelley,  Wai'd  Four 

Moody  B    Noyes,              "      Two          Andrew  R.  Curtis,  "      Five 

Arthur  P.  Brown,               "     Three       Obed  W.   Gi-eaton,  "      Six 
John  Balch  Blood,  Alderman  at  lai'ge. 


APPENDIX  613 

William  F.  Houston,  Ma3-or,  1906. 

ALDEKMEX. 

George  H.  Welch,        Ward  One  Charles  P.  Kelley,  Ward  Four 

George  P.  Peckham,        "     Two         John  B.  Blood,  ■■      Five 

Arthur  P.  Brown,  "     Three       Obed  W.  Greaton,  "      Six 

Mood}-  B.  Noyes,  Alderman  at  large. 

Albert  F.  Hunt,  Mayor,  1907. 

ALDERMEN. 

George  H.  Welch,        Ward  One  William  H.Wallace,  Ward  Four 

Laurens  C.  Emery,  "     Two  Albert  H.  Beckford,  "      P'ive 

Robert  E.  Hart,  "     Three       Obed  W.  Greaton,  "     Six 

Edgar  Ross,  Alderman  at  large. 

Irvin  Piesse,  Mayor,  1908. 

ALDERMEN. 

Herbert  S.  Noyes,        Ward  One  William  H.  T.  Dodge,  Ward  Four 

George  P.  Peckham,         "     Two  Edward  G.  Moody,  '•      Five 

George  F.   Avery.  "     Three       Herbert  Currier,  '■      Six 

John  J.  Kelleher,  Alderman  at  large. 

Albert  F.  Hunt,  Mayor,  1909. 

ALDERMEN. 

Hiram  H.  Landford,    Ward  One  William  H.  T.  Dodge,  Ward  Four 

George  P.  Peckham.         "     Two  Edward  G.  .Moody,  "      Five 

Benjamin  P.  Ireland,        •'     Three       George  E    Cooper,  "      Six 

Charles  E.  Coffin,  Alderman  at  large. 

CITY    CLEKKS. 

George  H.  .Stevens,'    City  Clerk  from  March  7.  1.S70,   to  June  iS,  1906. 
Henry  W.  Little,"  assistant  City  Clerk  from  January  4,  i.S97,to  June  18, 

1906. 
Henry  W.  Little,  City  Clerk  from  June  18,  1906,  to  the  present  time. 

CrrV    TREAsrREKS. 

James  \'.  Felker,-  City  Treasurer  from  January  1,  i.S'S3,  to  .May  i  i.  1906. 
Harr)'  F.  Whiton.  Cit)'  Treasurer  from  July  2,  1906,  to  the  present  time. 

^  History  of  NewV)uryport  (Currier),  volume  I,  page  686. 
2  History  of  Newburyport  (Currier),  volume  L  page  687. 


XTI. 
CONCLUSION. 

When  the  first  volume  of  this  history  was  published,  in 
1906,  several  chapters  relating  to  the  literary  and  industrial 
associations,  banks,  insurance  companies  and  benevolent  soci- 
eties of  Nevvburyport  were  omitted  to  make  room  for  a  full 
and  detailed  account  of  the  stirring  events  that  occurred,  and 
the  privateers  that  were  equipped  for  service,  in  the  town, 
during  the  Revolutionary  war.  Since  the  publication  of  that 
volume  the  omitted  chapters  have  been  revised  and  are  now 
printed  with  some  brief  biographical  sketches,  in  this,  the 
second  volume  of  the  history  of  Newburyport. 

The  biographical  and  historical  facts  stated  in  the  preced- 
ing pages  have  been  gathered,  mainly,  from  original  letters 
and  public  documents  in  the  Massachusetts  archives  ;  from 
town  records  ;  from  probate  records,  and  from  the  registry  of 
deeds  in  Salem,  Mass. 

Many  well-known  historical  authorities  have  been  consulted 
and  much  valuable  information  obtained  from  the  New  Eng- 
land Historical  and  Genealogical  Register ;  the  Essex  Insti- 
tute Historical  Collections  ;  histories  of  Newbury  and  New- 
buryport by  Caleb  Cushing,  Joshua  Coffin,  and  Mrs.  E.  Yale 
Smith  ;  historical  sketches  by  George  J.  L.  Colby  and  Wil- 
liam T.  Davis  in  the  histories  of  Essex  county  ;  early  copies 
of  the  Essex  Journal  and  New  Hampshire  Packet  ;  and  com- 
plete files  of  the  Newburyport  Herald  and  Country  Gazette. 

The  author  is  especially  indebted  to  George  Francis  Dow, 
secretary  of  the  Essex  Institute,  for  assistance  in  preparing 
this  work  for  the  press  ;  to  Sidney  Perley,  esq.,  attorney-at- 
law,  Salem,  Mass.,   for  a   critical  examination    of  the  manu- 

614 


APPENDIX  6 1 5 

script  previous  to  publication  ;  to  Carl  Wilhelm  Ernst  of 
Boston,  for  many  important  facts  relating  to  the  invention 
and  introduction  of  steel-plate  engraving  by  Jacob  Perkins ; 
to  Lawrence  B.  Gushing  and  Capt.  James  O.  Knapp  for  gene- 
alogical information  ;  to  Capt.  Clemens  E.  Davis  and  Charles 
H.  Sargent  for  advice  and  practical  suggestions  in  regard  to 
the  development  of  steam  navigation  on  the  Merrimack  river  ; 
to  John  D.  Parsons,  librarian,  for  the  unrestricted  use  of 
books,  pamphlets  and  newspapers  in  the  public  Ubrary  ;  and 
to  Henry  W.  Little,  city  clerk,  for  frequent  opportunities  to 
examine  and  make  copious  extracts  from  the  town  records 
and  official  reports  at  city  hall. 


ERRATA. 

Dr.  Frederick  Irving  Knight,  was  born  in  Newbury,  now 
Newburyport,  May  eighteenth,  and  not  May  8,  1 841,  as  stated 
on  the  three  hundred  and  tenth  page  of  this  volume. 


616 


INDEX. 


INDEX. 


ABBIE  and    Eva  Hooper  (schooner), 
Wreck  of,  25,  26. 
Abbot,    Professor  of  Christian  Theolo- 
gy. 500. 
Abbotsford,  Scotland,  465. 
Abbott,  Builer,  447. 

Edward,   354 
Academy  at  Milton,  Mass.,  335. 
Acey,  WiUiam,  581,  5S2. 
Achilles  (iron  collier),  78. 
Active  Fire  ^ociety,  31. 
Adams,  Anne,   244. 

Archelaus,  56. 

Asa,  562. 

Daniel,  no,  493,  562. 

David  J.,  606. 

Edna,  562. 

Elizabeth,  56,  564. 

Ely,  527. 

Enoch  C.,  391. 

Hannah,  561. 

Harriet,  506,  507,  561. 

Dr.  Henry  F.,   309. 

Hos,  52s. 

Isaac,  600. 

Joanna,  505. 

John,  56,  422,  467. 

Wooden  statue  of,  422. 

John    Quincy,     230,    240,    262-264, 
295,  301,    317,   478,    512,  540, 
541,  546. 
Burial  of,  512. 

Joseph  L.,  562. 

Mary,  56,  57. 

Paul,  112. 

Richard,  527. 

Richard  G.,   184. 

Samuel,  56,  106- 108,  467. 

Sarah,  562. 

Seneca,  562. 

Silas,  88,  112. 

Stephen,  57. 

Susan  I.,  178. 
"  Adams  and  Liherty,"  270. 
Adams  &  Emery,  397. 
Adams,  Sampson  &  Co.,  502. 
"  Address  to  the  Members  of  the  Mer- 
rimack   Humane     Society,"    etc., 
499- 


Address  to  George  Washington,  264. 
Adelphi  theatre,  London,  Eng.,  465. 
Adle,  tieorge  W.,  608. 
"Advantages  of  God"s    presence  with 
his  people  in  an  expedition  against 
their  enemies  "    (text    of    sermon 
by  Rev.  John  Lowell),  499. 
Adventure  (brigantine),  222. 
African  Slave  Trade,  320. 
"  Age    of    Gold,    and    other    I'oems," 

282. 
Agile  Fire  society,  31,  32. 
Agriculture,  269. 
"Aida"  (oratorio),  184. 
"  Airs  of  Palestine  and  other  Poems," 

279. 
Ajalon,  Valley  of,  443 . 
Akaba,  512. 
Akin,  James,  130,  131,  363,  365,  371, 

372,  374-377,  425,   590. 
Akron,  O.,  559. 
Alabama  river,  69. 

Albany,  N.  V.,  70,  74,  247,  320,  339. 
Alberdi,  Senor  J.  B.,  393. 
Albree,  George,  304. 

Mrs.  Georgianna,  304. 

Norman,  304. 
Alden,  Mrs.  Adelaide  Stoodley,  239. 

J.  D.,  239. 
Aldermen,  List  of,  of  City  of  Newbury- 

port,  603-613. 
Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,  337. 
Alert  (brig),   249. 
Alexander,  Elizabeth,  437,  438. 

Eunice,  437,  438. 

Hannah,  437,  438. 

Capt,  Nathaniel,  96. 
Alexandre,  Monsieur,   465. 
Alexandria,  Va.,  314,  321,  406. 
"  Algerine  Slaves,"  497. 
Algiers,  495. 
Alianza  (schooner),  25. 
Ali  Bey,  276. 
Alice  M.  (steamboat),  80. 
Alice  Oakes  (schooner),  23. 
Allen,  Abigail,  513. 

Mrs.  Dorothy,  2S0,  550. 

E.  W.,  499,  500. 

Ephraim  W. ,  64,  280,  315,  482,  550. 


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620 


INDEX 


Allen,  John,  501. 

John  W.,  610. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  28,   339- 

Mrs.  Margaret  Ann,  281. 

Myron  O.,  302. 

William,  517. 

William  B.,  499,  501,  550. 

William  B.,  &  Co.,  499,  501,  550. 

William  S.,    174,  175- 

William  Stickney,  280. 
Allen  &  Stickney,  498. 
Allen  lane,  351. 
Alley,  Frank,  183. 

Henry  G.,  180. 
Alliance  (frigate),   229,  298,  506,  531, 

532- 

All  Saints'   church,   320. 

Almanacs,  Fleet's,  155. 

Almshouse,  300,  315,  382,  428,  439. 

Almshouse,  Bleckley,  West  Philadel- 
phia,  478. 

Alston,  Col.  William,   278. 

Alton,  Hampshire,  Eng.,  457. 

Alw7n,  Mrs.  Rebecca,  543. 

"  Amaranth,  A  Literary  and  Religious 
Offering,"  etc.,  500,  501. 

"Amber  Gods  and  other  Stories," 
"The,"  341. 

America,  307,  446,  456-458,462,  571. 

America  (privateer),  507, 

America  (ship),  461,  462. 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences, 307. 

American  Antiquarian  Society,  365. 

American  army,  106,  322,  460. 

American  Bank  Note    Company,   368, 

395,  554- 
American  Board    of  Commissioners  for 

Foreign  Missions,  532. 
"  American  Coast  Pilot,"  372,  379. 
American  colonies,   250. 
American  commerce,  128. 
"American  Explorers,"  344. 
"American  Hymn,"  182,  183. 
American  independence,  135. 
American  legation,  329. 
American  Monthly  Museum,  529. 
American  revolution,  329,  462. 
American    Seamen's    Friend    Society, 

142. 
American  Water  Color  society,  353. 
"  American  W^eather,"  344. 
Ames,  Isaac,  371. 
Amesbury,  Mass.,  25,  69,    74,    76,   81, 

89,94,95,    103,    127,    281,   298, 

300,  325,  328,  341,  343.363>  454, 

468,  493,  494- 
Amesbury  ferry,  461. 


Amesbury  ferry  road,  13. 
Amherst  college,   343. 
Amherst,  N.  H.,   463. 
"A  Moment's  Leisure,"  356,  357. 
Amor)',  John,  269. 

Mrs.  Katherine,  269. 

Rebecca,  269. 
Amsterdam,  Holland,   247-249,  589. 
Anderson,  William,  518,  519. 
Andover,    Mass.,    69,    175,    210,    238, 

321,  387,392,  468,  556. 
Andover    Theological    Seminary,    235, 

238,  343,  500. 
Andrew,  Governor,  484. 
Andrews,  Caroline  C,  389. 

Caroline  Gushing,  338. 

Emily  R.,  339. 

Jane,  338,  389. 

John,  32,  129,  134,   291,   338,   496- 

499,  550- 

Margaret,  28,  338,  339,  550. 

Margaret  Demmon,  291. 

Margaret  H.,  143. 

Samuel  Allen,  104. 

Sarah,  321. 

Walter  E.,  391. 
Andrews  &  Wheelwright,  550. 
Andrews',    Rev.    Mr.,    meeting-house, 

122,  219. 
Andromache  (English  frigate),  252. 
Andros,  Sir  Edmund,  562,  577. 
Angler,  Rev.  Samuel,   257. 

Sibyll,  229,  257,  260,  291. 
Ann  Maria  (schooner),   23. 
Ann  street,  381. 
Anna  Jaques  Hospital,  334,   395,   401, 

413- 
Association,  144,  238. 

Annapohs,  N.  S.,  318. 

Annexation    of    part    of    Newbury    to 
Newburyport,  115. 

Antigua,  225. 

Antioch  college,  O.,  339. 

Antiquarian  and  Historical    Society  of 
Old  Newbuiy,  178. 

Anti-slavery  lecture,  556. 

"  Anvil  Chorus,"  182. 

Appleton,  Louisa  Armistead,  310. 
Nathan,  245. 

Appomattox,  Va.,  322. 

Apthorp,  Grizzell,  553,  560. 

"  Aquillpen,"  501. 

Ai-abia,  276,  512. 

Arch  street,  Philadelphia,  377. 

Archbishop,   Roman  Catholic,   of  Bos- 
ton, 235. 

"Arctic  Experiences,"  327. 

Area  of  Newbury,  14, 


INDEX 


621 


Area  of  Newburyport,  15,  539. 
Argentine  Republic,  393. 
Argus  (brig),  251. 
Argus  (schooner),  19. 
Arithmetic,  Walsh's,  311. 
Arkansas,    175. 

Decisions  of  supreme  court  of,  322. 
Arkansas  Advocate,  321. 
Arlington  street,  Boston,  359. 
"  Arminius  "  (oratorio),  184. 
Armitage,  Bishop,  232. 

Mrs.  Charlotte,  232. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  Louisa,  258. 

Rev.  William  Edmond,  258. 
Armory,  115,  126. 

of  the  Knight  Templars,  125. 
Arnold,  Col.    Benedict,    88,    89,    202, 
204,  205. 

William,  222. 
Arrow  heads,  Indian,    i  73. 
Arskins,  John,  98. 
Art,  307,  348. 

exhibitions,  356. 

galleries,  351,  3^6. 

museum,  375. 

Students'  league,   358. 
Artichoke  river,  15,  i  lO,  193,  570. 
Artillery  company,  113-I15,  I17. 
Artists,   346,  348-360,  377. 

Enghsh,  407, 

Marine,  355,  356. 
Ashby,  WilHam,    137,  416. 
Ashland  street,  42,  130. 
Ashton,  Emily,  513. 

John,  513. 
Askin,  John,  94. 
Aspen  swamp,  56. 
Aspinwall,  William,  574. 
"  Ass  or  the  Serpent,"  "  The,"  495. 
Assembly  house,  59,  60. 

rooms,  190. 
Associated    Disciples    of   Washington, 

I35i  276. 
AthenKum,  Newbuiyport,    172,  173. 

Book-plate  of,    172,  173. 
Athens,  Ga..  329. 

N.  Y.,  75- 

O.,  272. 
Antiquarian,  408. 
Atkins,  Mrs.  Abigail,  198,  295. 

Andrew,  198. 

Dudley,    199-201,    267,    268,     579, 

597- 
Edward,  304,  409. 
Eliza,  339. 
Elizabeth,  302. 
Francis  Higginson,  198,  199. 
Hannah,  201, 


Atkins,  Henr}',  302. 

Joseph,  198-200. 

Katherine,  201. 

Marjorie,  304. 

Mrs.  Martha  Moody,  304. 

Mrs.  Maiy,  198-200. 

Mary  Russell,  201. 

Paul  Moody,  304. 

Rebecca,  201. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  198. 

Mrs.  .Sarah,  198,  200,  201,  267. 

.Susannah,  295. 

William,  19S,  218,  295,  597. 
"Atkins,"    "Joseph,"    "  the  Story  of 

a  Family,"  198,  199. 
Atkinson,  Mrs.  Abigail,  399, 

Albert  J.,   607. 

Mrs.  Alice  L.,  58. 

Amos,  88,  92,  III. 

Benjamin  F.,  607. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Maria,  238. 

Eleanor,  504. 

Eunice,  399. 

Fred  L.,  66. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  238,  308. 

Helen,  504. 

Hugh,  504. 

Ichabod,  385. 

John,  93,  III,  163,  238,  308,   309, 

399,^41 7- 

Dr.  Josiah,  308,  309. 

Mrs.  Lucy,  308. 

Mrs.  Mary,  385. 

Matthias,  399. 

Moses,    147,  385. 

Dr.  Moses  L.,   338 

Mrs.  Olivia  C,  308. 

Mrs.  Priscilla,  380. 

Mrs.  Sarah,   308,  385. 
Atkinson,  N.  FL,  334,  410,  411,  477. 
Atkinson  academy,  410. 
Atkinson  common,  185,  186,  399,  401. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  336,  338,  341. 
Attleborough,  Mass.,  550. 
Atwood,  Margaret,  133,  380,  381. 

Samuel,  527. 

Thomas,  604. 

Zachariah,  380,  381,  523. 
Atwood  street,  381. 
Aubin,  Corp.  Joseph,  525. 

Nathaniel,  49. 

Philip,  146. 

Solomon,  91,  98. 
Auburn    street,    115,     139,    257,    285, 

400. 
Auctioneers,  51,  429. 
Auctions,  58,  72,  116,    148,   173,   296, 
386,  429,  445,  447,  515,  560. 


622 


INDEX 


Augusta,  Me.,  232,  295. 
Augusta  (schooner),  19. 
Aurora  borealis,  306. 
Authors.  311-322,  377. 
Autographs,  166,  331. 
Avery,  George  F.,  613. 

Sarah,  349. 
Ayer,  Elizabeth,  303. 
Ayers,  Charles  W.,*  612. 
Ayres,  Charles  L.,  608. 
"  Azonian,"  341. 

BABB,  James,  96,  98, 
Babson,  James,  400. 
John,  195,  196, 
Joseph,   335. 
Jcseph  Edward,  335-338- 
Mrs.  Sarah  Eliza,  335. 
Susan,  400. 
Bachelder,  James,  516. 
"Bachelors,"  "The,"  etc.,  277. 
Bachman,  Solomon,  186,  254. 
Backclyft,  Charles  F.,  520,  522. 

Edmund,  522. 
Bagley,  Benjamin,  103. 
Serg.  Peter,  94. 
Philip,  65,  110,  112,  170. 
Samuel,  516. 
Bagley,  P.,  &  Sons,  429. 
Bailey  (Bay ley): 
Abigail,  88,  399. 
Mrs.  Adeline,  551. 
Charles  M.,  I54,''4i6. 
Charles  O.,  494. 
Daniel,  58,  59,  180. 
Ebenezer,''55i,  561. 
Mrs.  Emma,  S'^I• 
Jacob,  88,  318. 
Rev.  James,   578. 
John  C.  M.,  287. 
John  E.,  606. 
Joshua,  88. 
Mrs.  Mary,  578. 
Moses,  325,  517-520,  522. 
Paul,  551. 
Priscilla,  385. 

Robert,  151,  169,  416,  602. 
Sarah,  242,  578. 
Thomas,  69. 
William,    59. 
Bainbridge,  Capt.  William,  596. 
Baker,  Eliza,  270. 
Enoch,  524. 
Capt.  John,  88,  92. 
Thomas,  578. 
William  M.,  387. 
Balch, Benjamin,  48,  59,  137,  598,  599. 
Charles  H.,  117,  493,  559,  601. 


Balch,  Daniel,  29,  559. 
Edith  A.,  346. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  559. 
Mrs.  Eunice,  474. 
Mrs.  H.  J.,  44. 
Hannah,  131-133. 
John,  III,  158,  171,  402,  420,  473, 

474. 
John  H.,  jr.,  611. 
John  I.,  559. 
Joseph,   1 58. 
Mrs.  Lucy,  559. 
Mrs.  Martha,  559. 
Mary,  474,  481. 
Mary  C,  143. 
Samuel,  no. 
Sophronia,  402,  403. 
William,  31,    149,    161,    167,  520, 

612. 
William  C,,  153,  1 71,  346,  605,  606. 
Baldwin,  Henry  P.,  232. 

Mrs.  Sibyl,  232. 
Balk,  Corp.  Daniel,  520. 
Ballantine,  Elizabeth.  546. 
Balls,  44,  45,  190,^477,  480. 
Baltimore,   Md.,   249,   250,    278,   279, 

-283,  317,  349.  406,  484,  534- 
Bands  of  music,  183,  190,  325. 

Newburyport  brass  band,  325. 
Bangor,  Me.,  23,  63,  1 1  7,  226,  463. 
Bangs  &  Brewer,  409. 
Bank  bills,  363-368,  371,  372. 
Bank  of  England,  368. 

of   Ireland,  368. 
"Bank  of  Faith,"  497. 
Bank-note  engravers,  554. 
Banks,  164-172,  363. 
Banks,  General,  283,  485. 
Bannister,  Mrs.  Mary,  275,  304. 
Sarah  White,   56,  58,  304,  305. 
Seth,  275. 
Mrs.  Svisan,  275. 
William  B.,  136,  170,  227,  267,  287, 

304,  492,  600. 
William  Bostwick,  275,  280. 
Mrs.  Zilpah  Polly,  275. 
Barbadoes,  249. 
Barber,  Benjamin,  521. 
Barbour,  Hon.  James,  478. 
Bardwell,  Rev.  Horatio,   532. 
Barge  (water),  80. 
Barges,  coal,  78. 
Barnard,  Sarah,  220. 

Capt.  Timothy,  88,  89. 
Barnstable,  Mass.,  232,  258. 
Barrett,  WilHam,  496,  497. 
Barristers,  286. 
Barry,  Capt.  John,  531. 


INDEX 


623 


Baitlet  (Baitlett): 

Mrs.  Abbie  W.,  239. 

Adelaide  Stoodley,  239. 

Agnes  A.,  354,  355. 

Mrs.  Alice,  234. 

Bailey,  471,  550. 

Betsey,  224,  233.  235,  237-239,  317, 

557- 
Mrs.  Betty,  211,  239. 
Mrs.  Caroline,  550. 
Caroline  Hall,  239. 
Mrs.  Caroline  Lewis,  215. 
Catherine  Maria,  238. 
Charles,  300,  527. 
Cutting,  45,  597. 
David,  233. 
Ebenezer,   233. 
Edmund,  69,  136,  233-235,  237-239, 

308,  354,  597,  600. 
Elizabeth,  239,  317. 
Eunice,  474. 
Frances  Ann,  239. 
Gideon,  527. 
Hannah,  133,   233,    235,    237,   238, 

308,  315,  317,  400,  557. 
Mrs.  Harriet,  238. 
Harriet  Holmes,  238. 
Henry,  239. 
Hemy  A.,  400, 
Horace  I.,  287. 
Joanna,  345. 
John  Stephen,  215. 
Joseph,  70,  345. 
Louisa  S.,  239,  354. 
Margaret  Brierly,  239. 
Maria,  238, 

Martha  Gerrish,   238,  392,  393. 
Mrs.  NLiry,  233. 
Mary  McClintock,  239. 
Nathaniel  Stoodly,  239. 
Mrs.  Peggy,   550. 
Richard,  136,   137,    146,    198,   233, 

599,  600. 
Richard  M.,  239,  521. 
Samuel,  ill,  233. 
Sarah,  506. 
Sarah  Boardman,  345. 
Corp.  Stephen,  526. 
Thomas,  31. 
William,  48,  135,  146-148,  156,  157, 

159-161,  164,  165,  167,  170,211, 

233-239,  317.  525'  557,  564,598, 

599. 
William  Henry,  400. 
Rev.  William  S.,    175. 
William  Stoodly, '239,  317. 
Mrs.      Zilpha,       235,      238,       239, 

308. 


Bartlet  mall,  117,  184,  238,  336,  398, 

399,  401. 
Bartlet  Steam  Mills,  42,  149,  150,  236, 

252,  509. 
Bartlett's  lane,  128,  229, 
Barton,  Rev.  Frederick  A.,  238. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Holmes,   238. 
Bass,    Rev.    Edward,    119,    121,    122, 
129,  194,  263,  348,430,  545,  590. 

Mrs.  Mercy,   545. 
Bassett,  Christopher,  525. 

Joseph,   519, 

Nancy,  382. 

Nathaniel,  524. 
Bastile  prison,  461. 
Batchelder,  Dudley  T.,  607. 

Elbridge  K.,  606. 

Joseph,  525. 
Bath,  Me.,  219. 
Bathing  houses,  67,  68. 
Battle  of  Bunker  hill,  86,  506,  511. 

at  Concord,  86. 

of  Eikhorn,  322. 

of   Harlem'Heights,  91. 

near  Lake  George,  499. 

of  Lexington,  86. 

of  Long  Island,   91. 

near  Newport,  100. 

of  Shiloh,  109. 
Bay  State  Cordage  Company,  153. 
Bay  State  Steamship  Company,  81. 
Bayard,  EHzabeth  Ingersoll,  321. 
Beacon  street,  Boston,  193,  310,  405. 
Beacons,  16. 

Beane,  Rev.  Samuel  C,  178,  329,348. 
Beck,  Abigail,  198,  295. 

Mrs.  Betsey,  408. 

Jonathan,  104. 

Joshua,    198. 

Martha,  408. 

Nathaniel,  no. 

Thomas,  103,^104,  408. 
Beck  street,  235. 
Beckford,  Albert,H.,   61 1,  613. 
Beethoven  club,',i8i. 
Belfast,  Ire.,  202. 
Belknap,  John,j302. 

Mrs.  Mary,  302, 
Bell,  Shubael,  esq.,  276. 
Belleville,  299,  308,  408. 

cemetery,  in. 

Congregational  meeting-house,  41. 

Improvement  society,    186,  400. 
Bellingham,  Richard,  573,  574. 
Bell  inn,  (iloucester,  Eng.,  455. 
Bells,  18,  49,  108,  150,  428,  481. 
Beloit  college,  346. 
Bennington,  \'t.,  93,  317. 


624 


INDEX 


Benevolent  society,  Newbiuyport  How- 
ard, 136,  137,  139. 

Washington,  135. 
Benjamin,  Park,  175,  501, 
Benson,  Bishop,  455. 
Bent,  William  H  ,  esq.,   352. 
Bentley,  Rev.  William,  124,   125,  192. 
Benton,  Hon.  Thomas  H.,  175,  334. 
Bequests,  45,  137-139.  I44- 
Berkes,  Corp.  Samuel,  105. 
Berkshire  Medical  school,  308. 
Berlin,  Germany,  310,  464. 
Bermuda  islands,  457. 
Bernard,  Mrs.  Betsey,  298. 

Gov.  Francis,  90. 

Isaac,  298. 

John,  437. 
Bernheimer,  Marjorie  S.,  359. 

Mrs.  Mayer  S.,  1S6,  356. 
Berry,  Ambrose,  49. 

Edward,  524. 

John,  597. 
Berrj',  Dodge  &  Co.,  45. 
Berwick,  Me.,  Church  in,  495. 
Besse,  Irvin,  611,  613. 
Beta  (schooner),  23. 
"  Bethesda,"  456. 

Bethel  society,   Newburyport,  142,  143. 
Betts,  Fanny  Matilda,   353. 
Beverly,  Mass.,  20,  154,  245,  247,  404. 
Bible  society,  Merrimac,  134,  135, 
Bickford,  Horace,  287. 
Biddeford,  Me.,   286,  558,  559. 
Bigelow,  Elizabeth  G. ,  391. 

George  N.,  387. 

Nancy  J.,  389. 
Bigland,  J.,  500. 

Bill  issued  by  Newburyport  Bank,   1 66. 
Biographical  sketches,  189-487. 
Bishop,  Abraham,  428,  430,  590. 

Benjamin,  105. 

Hannah,  400. 

Mary  Ann,  430. 

Nancy,  428,  430,  590. 

Paul,   521. 
Black,  Ens.  Charles  H.,   521. 

William,  521. 
Black  Rocks,  73.  74,  77,  80,  -81. 
Blaisdell,  John,  3d,  526. 
Blake,  D.  S.,  177,  327. 

Lucia,  320. 

Mrs.  Margaret  S.,  413. 

Samuel  S.,  607. 
Blakeley,  Captain,  405. 
Blamphey,  Philip,  610,  611. 
Blanchard,  Jeremiah,    no,  525. 
Blasdell,  Nicholas,  516. 
Blatchford,  Capt.  Robert,  17. 


Bliss,  Charles  A.,  184. 

Charles  H.,  610. 
Blockley  almshouse.  West  Philadelphia, 

478. 
Blodgette,  George  B.,  287. 
Blood,  Edwin,  177,  502. 

John  Balch,  612,  613. 
Blue  Bird  (sloop),    17. 
Blunt,  Edmund  M.,  270,372-374,  379, 

496-499. 
Blunt  &  March,  495. 
Board  of  war,  loi,  102. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.,  144. 

Isaac  H.,  154,  162,    163,  493,  602, 
603,  605. 

Jacob,  598. 

John,  31,  67. 

Jonathan,  124. 

Joseph,  389. 

Offin,  32,  III,  146,601. 

Phebe,  382. 

Stephen,  523. 

Thomas,  526. 

Thomas  H.,  608,  609. 

WilHam,  521. 
Boardman  street,    31,    155,    197,   300, 

304,  308. 
Boar's  Head,  69,  81. 
Boddily,  Rev.  Mr.,  54. 

John,  525. 

Sarah,  557. 
''  Body  of  Liberties,"   256. 
Bokman,  Capt.  Samuel,  20. 
Bolton,  Dr.  J.  B.,  309. 
Bonart,  Bertha,  391. 
Bond,  Mary  Roulstone,  391. 
Bon    Homme    Richard    (vessel),    506, 

S^?.  5 '2,  531- 
Bonischere,   Dr,   Francis  Vergines    de, 

297. 
Bonney,  Mrs.  Olivia  C,  308. 
Book-plate    of    Newburyport    Athense- 

um,  172,  173. 
Book-plates,   172,    173,  293,  294,  368, 

375,  376,  386. 
Books,  Copy,  367. 

Singing,  59.  180,  181. 
Bootman,  John,  103,  no. 
Boott,  Kirk,  245,  446,  447. 
Boott  mills,   Lowell,  446. 
Bordeaux,  France,  249,  349. 
Borden,  Seth  A.,  152. 
Boston,  Anthony,  100. 
Boston,  Mass.,  17-20,    25,   27,  38,   49- 

51,  60,  62,  63,  67,  69-72,  76,  77, 

80,  81,  91-93,  100,  102,  106,  117, 

124,  131,  155,  178,  181-184,  190, 

192,   193,   197,    198,   201-204,  220, 


INDEX 


625 


221,  224,  226,  232,  235,244-246, 
249,  251,  255,  256,  258,  261,  267- 
271,  274-276,  278,  279,  281,282, 
284,  286,  290,  292,  302,  304,  305, 
310,  313,  315,  317,321,  328-330. 
335-338,  340,  341,  346,  347,352- 
355,  358-360,  367,  370,  371,  375, 
387-  396-398,  401,  402,  404,405, 
407,  409,  413,414,  417,  418,440, 
444,  448,  456,  458-461,  468,  474, 
476,  477,  499,  501-503,  510-512, 
514,  515,  531,543,548,551,553, 
556,  557-  558,  560,  561,  563-565, 
570,  572,  574,  576-578,594,  596, 
614. 
Boston,  History  of,   367. 
Church  of,  572. 
common,  405. 
harbor,  511. 
Neck,  190. 
public  library,  365. 
Boston    (United    States    frigate),    205, 

209. 
Boston  Academy  of  Music,    181. 
Boston  Advertiser,  347. 
Boston  Athenoeum,  191,  269,  396. 
"  Boston  Bard,"  313,  314,  543. 
Boston  Courier,  281,  514. 
Boston  custom-house,  345,  565. 
Boston  Galaxy  and  Commercial  Adver- 
tiser, 276. 
Boston  Journal,  329. 
Boston  Latin  school,  553. 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  14,  308,  415. 

Company,  308,  415. 
Boston  Monthly  Magazine,  276. 
Boston  Museum,  173. 
Boston  Transcript,  336. 
Bourne,  Charlotte,   293,  294,  404. 
Bowdoin  college,   308,  311,   334,   402, 

411. 
Bowdoin  Medical  school,  308. 
Bowen  &  Cushing,  Boston,   459. 
Boxford,  Mass,,  105^  494,  560. 
Boyce,  Matthew,  581,  582. 
Boyd,  Newell,  74. 
Boylston,  Mass.,  326. 
Boylston  street,  Boston,  359. 
Boynton,  Eben  M.,    178, 
Brackett,  Lt.-gov.  J.  Q.  A.,  171. 

Nathan  A.,  520. 
Bradbur)-,  Mrs.  Ann,  265. 
Charles,  468. 
Daniel,   438. 
Ebenezer,  118,  147,   407,   492,   524, 

601. 
Mrs.  Eleanor,  468. 
Frances,  468. 


Bradbury,  Francis,  468. 
Ceorge,  266,  468. 
Mrs.  Hannah  Jones,  468. 
Harriet,  194,  468-470,  544. 
John,  165. 
John  H.,  417. 
John  M.,  417. 
John  Merrill,  407,  408. 
Mrs.  Lois,  468. 
Mrs.  Mary,   266,  468,  578. 
Mrs.  Nancy,  407. 
Mrf.  Rhoda,  438. 
Mrs.  Sarah,  266,  468,  469. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Ann,  407. 
Theophilus,  134,  156,194,262,265, 
266,  468-471,  491,  492,  544,  599- 
Thomas,  495,  578. 
William,  468. 
Wyman,  32. 
Bradbury,  Theophilus,  House  of,  472. 
Bradford,  Mrs.  Clara,  63. 

Nathaniel,  95. 
Bradford  &  Read,  278. 
Bradford,  Mass.,    193,  307,   468,  493, 

494. 
Bradford  road,  193. 
Bradley,  Lt.  David,  90. 

Harrison,  524. 
Bradstreet,  Betty,  241. 
Dr.  Humphrey,  288. 
Moses,  597. 

Nathaniel,  128,  129,  170,  297. 
Symon,   580. 
Bragdon,  Isabella,  266. 

Joseph  H.,  177,  287,  501,  502. 
Braintree,  Mass.,  260,  262,  512,  513. 
Braman,  Rev.  Isaac,  500. 
Brave  (schooner),  25. 
Breck,  Samuel,  546. 
Breckenridge,  John  C,  484. 
Brest,  France,  531. 
Brett,  John,   32,  1 10,   III. 
Brewer,  Colonel,  89. 
Brewster,  John,  527,  528. 
Bricher,  Alfred  Thompson,  353,  354- 
Mrs.  Alice  L.,   354. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Dame,  353. 
Mrs.  Susan  A.,  354. 
William,  353. 
Brickett,  Mrs.  Abigail,  303. 
Mrs.  Edna,  303. 
Eliza  W.,  303. 
Mrs.  Elizal)eth,  303. 
Elizabeth  White,  303. 
Dr.  James,  303. 
John,  147,  167,  303,  304. 
John  James,  303. 
Lavinia,  303. 


626 


INDEX 


Brickett,  Mrs.  Lydia  M.,  303,  304. 
Martha,  409. 

Martha  Ann  Kimball,  303. 

Martha  Kimball,  303. 

Nathan  A.,  522. 

Sarah  Ayer,  303. 
Bridge  at  Coir's  island,  577,  578. 

Essex-Merrimack,  340,  346. 

Newburyport,  148. 
Bridges,  75,  148,  340,  346,  577,  578. 
Budges,  Sarah,  284,  341. 
Bridgewater,  Mass.,  42,  311. 
Brigantines,  156,  222,  229,  592,  593. 
Briggs,  Gov.  George  N.,  387. 

Russell  E.,  152. 
Brigs,  18,  20,  215,  225,  248-252,  405, 
506,  507,  511,  532,  534,  592,596. 
Brintnall,  Esther,  3S0. 
Bristol,  Eng.,  247,  248. 
Bristol  county,  Mass.,  386. 
British  army,  205,  534. 

coast,  506. 

fleet,  205. 

packet  ship,  534. 

provinces,  448. 

troops,  190,  468. 
Britton,  Serg.  H.  G.,  522. 
Broad  street,  144,  238,  411. 
Broadsides,  432,  437. 
Broadway,  N.  Y.  City,  358. 
Brockway,  Miss,   138. 

Charles  J.,  160,  239. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  239. 

Maria  J.,  139. 
Brockway's,  Miss,  schoolroom,  138. 
Bromfield,  Mrs.  Ann,  396. 

Henry,  396. 

John,  396,  397. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  396. 
Bromfield     street,     Newburyport,     15, 

397>  439,  503- 

Boston,  536,  577. 
Bronx  (steam-tug),  79. 
Brookfield,  Mass.,  275. 
Brookhouse,  Mrs.  Mary,  381. 

Robert,  3S1. 
Brooking,  Adeline,  138. 

John,  520. 
Brookline,  Mass.,  540. 
Brooklyn,  N.  V.,    79,:  197,    198,   268, 
320,  322,  323,  327. 

Navy  yard,  323. 
Brooks,  (ieorge,  219. 

Mrs.  Henrietta  Louisa,  219. 
Brown  (Browne): 

Mrs., Abigail,  226,  385. 

Mrs.  Agnes.'A.,  354,  355, 

Alexander  D.,  45,  169. 


Brown,  Alice,  347,  356. 
Dr.  Alphonso  B.,  310. 
Amos,  96,  99. 
Anne,  294. 
Arthur  P.,  612,  613. 
Mrs.  Asenath  Lyons,  354. 
Mrs.  Catherine,  226,  545. 
Causten,  esq.,  226. 
Charles  W.,  451. 
Charles  William  Milton,  451. 
Mrs.  Dorothy,    225. 
Edward,  225,  226. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  347. 
Mrs.  Ellen  T.,  401. 
Mrs.  Eunice,  226. 
George,  226. 
George  Edward,  451. 
George  Frederick  Handel,  354. 
Haydn,  178,  493. 
Capt.  Henry,    17. 
Jacob,  96,  1 10. 
James,   226,  522. 
Jane,  27^,  476. 
John,  96,  99,  522,  526. 
John  Appleton,  354,  355. 
John  O.  W.,  147. 
John  T.,  45,  401,  591. 
Joseph,  95,  226,  385,  523,  526. 
Lawrence, ;_253. 
Levi,   347.* 

Mrs.  Lucretia  Hamsly,  451. 
Lucy  Ann,  551. 
M.  J.,  142. 

Mary,  226,  227,  275,  304,  507. 
Mrs.  Mary  Jane,   371. 
Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Clarissa,  451. 
Mary  Lawrence,  253. 
Mary  Q.,  389. 

Moses,  29,  48,,  54,  60,  61,  III, 
119,  137,  146,  157.  164,  170,  225- 
227,  250,  275,297,370,  371,  385, 

439.  527,  585,  598,  599,  612. 
Nathan,  207,  525. 
Nathan  W.,  68. 
Nathaniel  P.,  502. 
Orlando,  519,  525. 
Peter  A.,  376. 
Mrs.  Rebecca,  253. 
Samuel,   56,  520,  523. 
Sarah,  225,  226. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Justice,   565. 
Selina  Ann,  451. 
Susan  N.,  389. 
Susannah,  226. 
Thomas,  88,  451,  518,  521. 
Thomas  Augustus,  451. 
Walter,  522,  527. 
William,  226,  545,  565,  577,  585. 


INDEX 


627 


Brown  high  school,  389,  395. 

Brown  scjuare,   147,  301,  309,  399. 

Brown  street,  60,  61,  251,  252,  477. 

Brown's  wharf,  71. 

Bryant.  G.  J.,  387. 

Brunswick,  Me.,  313. 

Brussels,  France,  329. 

Brutus  Fire  society,  32. 

Buck,  John,  31. 

Buck  street,  261. 

Buckets,  Fire,  27-29,  34,  36,  37. 

Buckingham,  J.  H.,  500. 

Joseph  H.,  501. 
Buenos  Ayres,  392,  393. 
Bufford,  James,  100. 
Bunker  hill,  Battle  of,    86,    243,  325, 

361,  404,  506,  511. 
Buntin,  Serg.  Joseph,   525. 

Mary  L.,  138. 

Thomas,  601,  602. 
Burbank,  Jonathan  M.,  523. 
Burgess,  Captain,  23. 
Burgoyne,  General,   563. 
Burials,    17-19,  228. 
Burke,  Mrs.  Mabel,  564. 

Robert  E.,  esq.,  184,  2S7,  564. 

William,  516,  522. 
Burley,  Daniel  S.,  153. 
Burley  &  Stevens,  154. 
Burley,  Stevens  &  Co.,  153. 
Burlingame,  Anson,  175. 
Burlington,  \'t.,  409. 
Burnham,  Elizabeth,  92,  456. 

Frederick  D.,  2S7. 

Col.  James,  405. 

Jeremiah,  516. 

Lt.  John,  88,  92. 

Sylvester,  391. 

Thomas  \V.,  64. 

Wm.  D.,  524. 
Burns,  James,  518. 

Robert,  174. 
Burnside,  Gen.  Ambrose  E.,  331. 
Burr,  Colonel,  205. 

Aaron,  277. 
Burrill,  Edward,  604. 

James,  527. 

John,  31,  71,   118,  602. 

Thomas,  31. 
Burying  grounds,  15,  18,  110-112. 
Bush,  Wm.,   526. 

Buswell,  Jonathan,   88,  91,  94,  96,  98. 
Bushwick,  N.  Y.,  323. 
Butler,  Benjamin  F.,  75,  331. 

Charles,  89,  147,  517,  524. 

George,  417. 

John,  105,  519,  520. 

Molly,  229. 


Butler  Philip,  516,  517,  527,  528. 
Butnian,  Abigail,  192. 
Buxton,  Me.,  Church  in,  495. 
Byfield    parish,    129,    147,    235,    533, 

363,  477,  563- 
cemetery,  558. 
meeting-house,  558. 
Byron,  282. 

CABIN  boy,  392. 
Cabot,  Francis,  261,  404. 
John,  404. 
Susan.  245,  261. 
Calais,  Me.,  18,  20,  341. 
Calcutta,  244,  398,  532. 
Caldwell,  Abner,   350. 

Alexander,  31,  246,  418,  524,  553, 

599- 

Mrs.  Eleanor,  334. 

George  J.,  418. 

James,  31,  43,  137,  553. 

John,  334,  524. 

Maria,  351. 

Mary,  246, 

Mrs.  Mary  W.,  553. 

Sarah,  43. 

Stephen,  601. 

Stephen  A..  418. 

William,  298,  351,  524. 

William  Warner,   334. 
California,  71,  283,  327,  411,  413. 
California  (steamboat),  71. 
Call,  A.  A.,  501. 

Charles,   517-519. 

Jonathan,  jr.,  521. 

Moses,  526. 
Calley,  Benjamin,   104. 

Eliphalet,  104. 

Jonathan,  104. 
"  Calvin's  Institutes    of    the    Christian 

Religion,'''  etc.,  501. 
Cambridge,  Mass..   86,   90,    175,    178, 
185,  209,  257,268,  312,  334,  361, 
395,  410,  496,  512,  564. 
Cambridge  Law  school,  481. 
Campbell,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  371. 

James,   516-520,  522,  527,  528. 

Margaret,   307. 

Mrs."  Margaret  M.,  178. 

Rev.  Randolph,  18,  307,  325,  371. 
Canada,  Capture  of,  303. 
Canal,  Essex  Company's,   80. 

Pawtucket,  245. 
Cannon,  86,  loi,  102,   107,    108,   112, 

115,  205,  209,  515,  547. 
Canterbury,  Eng.,  332. 
Canton  Harmony.    No.  47,    Patriarchs 
Militant  (I.  O   O.  F.),  127. 


628 


INDEX 


Cape  Ann,  8i,  234,  511. 
Cape  Cod,  201. 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  24^. 
Cape  Henry,  Hayti,  554. 
Cape  Porpus,  Me.,  574. 
Carens,  James  F.,  611,  612, 
Carey,  James,  452. 

John,  96. 

Rev.  Thomas,   125,  129. 
Caribbean  sea,  595. 
Carlisle,  Pa.,  407. 
Carlton,  Amos,  i  lo. 

Serg.  Daniel,  105. 

John,  521. 

Stephen,  105. 
"Carmen"  (oratorio),  184. 
Carr,  Ann,  578. 

Dorothy,  579. 

Elizabeth,  578,  579. 

Emma,  551. 

George,  578,  579. 

James,  577-579- 

John,  91,  92,  518,  519,  578,  579. 

Levi,  355. 

Mary,  355,  578. 

Kichard,  577-579- 

Samuel,  579. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  579. 

William,  578. 
Carr's  island,  80,  577,  578. 

Feny  at,  577,  578. 
Carrie  H.  Spofford  (schooner),  24. 
Cart  creek,  288. 
Cartels,  John,  105. 
Carter,  EHzabeth  E.,  133. 

George,  520. 

Hannah,  216. 

Joshua,  157,  164,  165,  170,  599. 

Nathaniel,  jr.,  599. 

Thomas,  1 70. 
Carter  &  Hende.e,  501 . 
Cartridges,  loi. 
Carvanaugh,  John,  88. 
Gary,  Rev.  Mr.,  124,  290. 

John,  98. 

Thomas,  64,    164,    209,    348,    370, 
496,  498. 
Gary's,  Rev.  Mr.,  meeting-house,  113. 
Casey,  Andrew  J.,  61 1. 
Casilear,  John  W.,  351. 
Cass,  Lewis,  203,  461. 

Moses,  524. 
Castine,  Me.,  19. 
Castrine,  St.  Lucie,  W.  L,  349. 
Caswell,  Michael,  99. 
Catalogue  of  Haverhill  library,  497. 
•'  Catalogue  of  Books  in  the  Newbury- 
port  Circulating  Library,"  500. 


"Catechism     for     Children,"     "Dr. 

Watts'  Plain  and  Easy,"  497. 
"  Catechism  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church  in  America,"  etc.,  500. 
Gates,  James  S.,  527. 
Caudle's,  Mr.,  Breakfast  Talk,   338, 
Gazneau,  Rebecca,  543. 

Samuel,  543. 
C.  B.  Stevens  (steam-tug),  20,  72. 
"  Celestial  City,"  314. 
Cemeteries,  14,  300,  319,  478. 

on  Clark's  lane,  Salisbury  Point,  300. 

Dunker's,  Germantown,  Pa.,  478. 
Census  of  United  States,  221. 
Centennial  fair,  76. 
Centipede  (iron  collier),  78. 
Central  place,  329. 
Central  wharf,  71. 
Century  club,  355. 
Ceres  (ship),  221, 
Chalmers,  Doctor,  335. 
Chamberlin,  Eliza  Ann,  335. 

Joseph,   551. 
Chandler's  lane,  207,  208,    234,  241 

503- 
Chapel,  Stone,  on  Star  island,  Isles  of 

Shoals,  548. 
Chapman,  Charlotte  Augusta,  413, 
Elizabeth,  506. 
Rev.  George  L,  413. 
Nathan,  104. 
Chaplin,  Rev.  Jeremiah,  222,  540. 

Mrs.  Mary,  540. 
"  Character    and    Death    of    General 

George  Washington,"  498. 
"  Character   and    \'irtues    of    General 

George  Washington,"  498. 
Charitable    Society    of    Newburyport, 

General,  143. 
Charles  street,  15:,  534-536- 
Charles  L.  Mather  (steam-tug),  75,  80. 
Charleston,  S.  C,  263,  484. 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  42,  241,  298,  414, 

419,  430,  504,  537,  548. 
Charter   street,    126,    171,    312,    439, 

SSI- 
Charter  of  Massachusetts  Bay   Colony, 

573- 
Chartres,  Duke  de,  461,  462. 
Charties,  France,  461. 
Chase,  Chas.,  527. 

Daniel,  524. 

J.  T.,  522. 

James,  jr.,  525. 

John,  jr.,  526. 

John  M,,  612. 

Joseph  T.,  517,  609. 

Moses,  no. 


INDEX 


629 


Chase,  Samuel,  iir,  524. 

Sarah  Ellen,  215. 

Sidney  M.,  534. 

Simeon,  105. 

Wm.,  523,  527. 
Chastellux,  Marquis  Francois  Jean,  460. 
Chauncey,  Judge,  272. 

Rev.  Charles,  2S5. 

Elizabeth,  2S5. 
Cheever,  xMbert,  608. 
Chelsea,    Mas«.,    90,    239,    317,    318, 

336,  338,  345,  409- 
Chelmsford,  Mass.,  245. 
Cheney,  Mrs.  Abigail,  325. 

James  W.,  181. 

Mary  B.,  325. 

Moses,  93. 

Samuel,  325. 

Thomas,  95. 
Cherokee  Indians,  322. 
Chester,  N.  H.,  420,  428,  433-435- 
Chestnut  street,  469,  470. 

Boston,  359,  360. 
Chetolah  (yacht),  83. 
Chevrence,  Jacquesson  de  la,  356. 
Chicago,  III.,  356,  414. 
Chickerinp,  John,  31,  149,  521,  526. 
Chilcott,  Clio  M.,  391. 
Child,  Harriet,  282. 
Chile,  393. 

China,  Commissioner  to,  482,  532. 
Chipman,  Lucy,  308. 
Choate,  Eben,  88. 

Ebenezer,  96,  99. 

John,  88, 

Jonathan,   516. 

Leonard,  41. 

Mary,  92. 

Neheniiah,  95. 

Hon.  Rufus,  175. 
Choral  society,   182. 
Choral  union,  184, 
Christ  church,  B  jston,  Mass.,  276. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  31S,  320. 

Oxford,  Eag.,  456. 
Christian  scientist,   309. 
"Christian  System,"  495. 
Church  of  the  Advent,  321. 
Church  of  England,  256,  325,455,456. 
Church  Monthly,  3:8. 
Cincinnati,  O.,  545. 
Citizen  (steamboat),  70. 
Citizen's  Street  Railroad  Co.,  45. 
City  clerks,   242,  613,  615. 
City  nf  Frederickton  (steamboat),  73. 
City  Freight  Railroad,  14. 
City  hall,    124,  172,  174-177,  181-184, 
340,  399.  402,   415- 


City  of  Haverhill  (steamboat),  72,  73, 

81. 
City  Improvement  society,  68,  185. 
City  Point  (steamboat),  23. 
City  treasurers,  537,613. 
Civil  war,   128,    185,    283,    308,    322, 

330,  338,  343,  345,  401,  484,  565- 
Clanin,  Benjamin,  89,  158. 
Clara  E.  Uhler  (steam-tug),    79. 
Claremont,  N.  H.,  92. 
Clark,  Judge,  272. 

Abraham  Wheelwright,  246. 

Amos,  283,  518. 

Edward  Warren,  246, 

Mrs.  Eliza,  320. 

Ellen  Swett,   283. 

Enoch,  246. 

George  Henry,  246,  320. 

George  W.,    182,  606. 

Lt.  Greenleaf,  93. 

Dr.  John,  288. 

Mrs.  Lucia,  320. 

Mary,  246,  451,  453. 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann,  430. 

Mary  Rebecca,  246. 

Moses,  1 12. 

Mrs.  Rebecca,  246,  247,   283,   318, 
320,  321. 

Robert,  600. 

Rose,  504. 

Rufus  Wheelwright,  246,  320. 

Samuel,  518,  520,  523. 

Samuel  Adams,  246,  321. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  321. 

Lt.  Silas,  90. 

Stephen,  430. 

Mrs.  Susan  Sanderson,  321. 

Thomas  M.,  31,  136,   137,  147,  160, 
165,  170,  175,  501,  599. 

Capt.  Thomas  M.,  135. 

Thomas  March,  246,  247,  318,  320, 
321. 

Rev.  Thomas  March,  318,  319. 
Clark  &  Whitten,  283. 
Clark's  lane,  Salisbury  Point,  300, 
Clarkson,  Elizabeth,  361. 

Margaret,  389,  391. 
Clay,  Henry,  274,  352. 
Cleaveland,  Neheniiah,  174. 
Clement  Mrs.  Clara  Erskine,  225,  347. 

James  Ilazen,  347. 
Clement's  inn,  255,  256. 
Clerks,  City,  242,  613,  615. 

of  courts,   549,  558. 

of  house  of  deputies,  571,  572. 

of  house  of  representatives,  92. 
Cleveland,  O.,  417. 
Clocks,  447,  591. 


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INDEX 


Clocks,  Makers  of,  382,  559. 

Cloth,  Cotton,  147-149,  151,  153,  235, 

245,  246. 
Clout,  James,  91. 
Cluston,  Thomas,  iii. 
Coal,  20,  22,  24,  25,  27,   75,   78,  367, 
370. 

pocket,  78. 

Rhode  Island,  367. 
Coates,  David,  29,  89,  112,  113,  598. 

Elizabeth,  553. 
Cobb,  PVancis  D.,  esq.,  232,  258. 

Francis  Davis,  232. 

Katherine  H.,  232. 

Mrs.  Katherine  S.,  232. 

Louisa  Farnham,  232. 

Matthew,  232. 

Mrs.  Phebe  BUss,  232. 

Richard,  232. 

William,  232. 
Coburn,  Josiah,  105. 
Cockburn,  Sir  Alexander,  484. 
Coffin,  Mrs.  Abigail,  225. 

Amos,  606,  607. 

Anna  L.,  179. 

Benjamin,  508. 

Brocklebank  Samuel,  579. 

Charles  E.,  613. 

Charles  II.,  43,  138,  151,  169,  416. 

Daniel,  29. 

David,  60,   146,  22S,  251,  525,  561, 
600. 

David  M.,  72. 

Rev.  Ebenezer,  313,  543. 

Edmund,  251,  509. 

Francis  L. ,  539. 

Frederick  J.,  604,  606. 

George,  96,  98,  521. 

Hector,  31,  148,  376. 

John,  99,  524. 

Joseph,  225,  495. 

"Capt.  Joseph  M.,  73,  76,  80, 

Joshua,  177,  506,  614. 

Lemuel,  28,  99,  no,  in,  417,  418. 

Margaret,  506. 

Mrs.  Mary,  313,  543,  561. 

Mary  Johnson,  251,  509. 

Miriam,  250,  508. 

Moses,  519. 

Capt.  Nathaniel,   522. 

Paul,  91,  96,  98,  495. 

Peter,  575. 

Rebecca,   239,  240. 

Robert  S.,  543. 

Robert  Stevenson,  313. 

Capt.  Samuel,  298. 

Samuel  Brocklebank,  579. 

Sarah,  225,  226,  506. 


Coffin,  Susanna,  133. 

Tristram,  149,  157,  164,  601. 

William,   225,  240,  507. 

William  C,  6n. 

William  S.,  22. 
Cogswell,  Bridget,  228. 

Elizabeth,  439, 

Dr.  Nathaniel,  440. 

Wade,  440. 
Coker,  Mrs.  Catherine,  504. 

Hannah,  504,  505,  507. 

Hawthorne,    198. 

Robert,  504. 
Colbar,  David,  104. 
Colby,  George  J,    L.,    177,    327-329, 
614. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  327. 

Hezekiah,  jr.,  33. 

Joseph  Lunt,  327. 

Makepeace,  90,  94,  96,  98. 

Philip,  516. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Arabella,  328. 
Colby  &  Lunt,  75. 
Colby  university,  222. 
Cole,  Benjamin,  32. 

Charles,  518. 

Charles  Octavius,  350. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  255. 

Joseph  Greenleaf,  350. 

Lyman  Emerson,  350. 

Moses,  521,  526. 

Moses  Dupre,  349,  350. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  349. 

William,  18,  99,  255. 
Collector  of  customs,  46,  282. 

Collery,  ,  521. 

Collier,  David,  104. 
ColHns,  Mrs.,  137. 

Daniel,  88,  91,  92,  96,  98. 

Elizabeth,  278. 

Maj.  James,  88,  91. 

Richard,  293. 
Collinsville,  Conn.,  238, 
Colman,    ,  44. 

Mrs.  Anne,  294. 

Benjamin,  128,  294. 

Dudley,  91,  92,  96. 

Jeremiah,  416,  601. 

Dr.  Samuel,  294. 

Sarah,  45 1 . 

Mrs.  Susannah,  295. 
Colony,  John,  96,  98. 
Columbia  college,  395. 
Columbian  Centinal,  462. 
Columbian  college,  Washington,  D.C., 

346. 
Columbian  order,  327. 
Commercial  Advertiser,  276. 


INDEX 


631' 


Commercial  wharf,  240,  400. 
Commissioners  to  end  small  causes  in 

Newbury,   571. 
Committee  of  safety,  85,  lOi,  209,  216, 

220,  267,  285. 
Concerts,  45,  181-184,  325. 
Concord,  Mass.,  230,  243,  349,  399. 

N.  H.,  271,  476,  477. 
Concord  battle,  86. 
Concord  river,  477. 
Condry,  Ann,  564,  565. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Rebecca,  565. 

Charles  Coftin,  565. 

Delia  Walker,  565. 

Dennis,  493,  564,  565. 

Lewis  Lowell,  564,  565. 

Mrs.  Mary,  564. 

Sarah  Browne,  565. 
Congregational  church    in    Brunswick, 
Me.,  313. 

Portland,  Me.,  469. 
Congress,    207,    265,    266,    271,  283, 
286,  292,  467-478,  480-482,  485. 

Members  of,    207,    266,    271,    283, 
286,    292,  467-476,  480-482,  485. 

Continental,   529. 
Congress  hall,  Philadelphia,    469,  470. 
Congress  street,  42. 

meeting-house,  41. 
Congressional  Directory,  331. 
Connecticut  Historical  Society,   321. 
Connecticut  Manufactory  lottery,  432. 
Connolly,  John,  94. 
Connor,  William,  99,  526. 
Connors,  Benjamin,  96. 
Constantinople,  Turkey,   343. 
Constitution,  State,  491. 

United  States,  266,  396. 
Constitutional    convention,    Massachu- 
setts, 209. 
Continental  army,   90,  91,  96,  99,  100, 
103,    105,    109,    212,    228,    230, 
250,  285,  SI  I. 

congress,  190,  220,  261,    266,   286, 
463,467. 

securities,    109. 

troops,  243,  563. 
Contributors  to  the  public  library  fund, 
402. 

school  funds,  385. 

street  and  park  improvements,  396. 
Cook,  Albert,  18. 

Charles,  33,  519,  521,  525. 

Christopher  C,  73. 

Elias,  1 10,  III. 

Henry,  169,  416,  606. 

Ens.  James,   522. 

Capt.  James  G.,  18. 


Cook,  John,  96,  98,  no,  112,  601. 

Moody  D.,  604. 

Samuel,  32. 

Thomas  D.,  522. 

Zebedee,  31,  156,  600. 
Coolidge,  Fanny,  254,  282,   485. 

Lt.  Jonathan,  522. 
Coombs,  Abigail,  212. 

Anna,  212,  392,  557. 

Betty,  211,  233,  23S,  239. 

Elizabeth,  212. 

Mrs.  Jane,  211,  212,  586. 

John,  146,  21 1. 

John  P.,  607. 

Lydia,  210-212,  233,  241,  586. 

Martha,  211. 

Mary,  211,  212. 

Mrs.  Michal,  212,  213. 

Philip,  210-212,  233,  241,  586,  600, 
601. 

Susanna,  212. 

William,  29,  89,  1 12,  129,  130,  134, 
146,  157,  164,211,212,233,  234, 
586,  587,  598,  599. 
Coombs  whaif,  392. 
Cooper,  George  E.,  613. 

George  W. ,  611. 

John  M.,  602,  603. 
Co-operative  Bank,    171. 
Copley,  John  Singleton,  191,  193,  258. 
Copper-plate  engraving,  368,  377. 
Cord,  James,  104. 
Cordova,  Central  Argentina,  393. 
Corey,  Fanny  M.,  411. 
Cork,  Ire.,  221,  457. 
Corliss,  George  11.,  145,  431. 

Mrs.  George  11.,    146. 
Cornhill,  Newburyport,  156. 
Cornwallis,  General,  105. 
Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  318. 
Corunna,  Spain,    229,  531. 
Cottle,  Woodbridge,  208. 
Cottle's  lane,  15,  438,  503. 
Cotton,  Benjamin,   91,  98,   104. 

Leonard,  91,  94,  96,  98,  104. 
Cotton  Company,  Newburyport  Steam, 

148,  149. 
Cotton  spinning  machinery,  446. 
Couch,  John,  526. 

Joseph,   134. 

Robert,  418,  606,  608. 

William,  522. 
Council  for  New  England,  570. 
Country  road,  15,  56,  57,  503,  566. 
County  commissioners,   281),  328,  555. 
Court  of^common  pleas, '257,  284,  285. 

general  sessions,  33,  257. 
Court  house,  38,  128,  257,  442. 


632 


INDEX 


Court  street,  328,  382,  384. 
Cowell,  Anna,   191. 
Cowles  Art  school,  358. 
Crabtree,  Abraham  A.,  611. 
Crafts,  Gov,  Saniuil  C,   267. 
Cram,  Mr.,  444,  445. 

Mrs.  Argentine,  54. 

Benjamin,  54. 

Gyles,   53. 

Samuel,  104. 
Crambries,  Lt. -governor,  204. 
Creasey,  George,  344. 

George  William,  344,  345. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  344. 

Philip  IL,  24. 

Samuel,  518. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Boardman,  345. 
Creedon,  P.  J.,  44. 
Crier,  Town,  50-53. 
Crocker,  Sarah,  308. 
Crockett,  Capt.  Allard,  19. 
CromloD,  Gyles,  53. 
Cromwell,  Argentine,  54. 

Oliver,  90,  94,  321. 
Crosby, ,  326. 

Michael,  96. 
Cross,  Mr.,  35. 

Abijah,   307. 

Caleb,  28. 

Charles  R.,  389. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  T.,  307. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  307. 

Dr.  Enoch,  307,  309. 

George,  551. 

Heaton,  523. 

Hector,  517. 

Henry  M.,  78,  178,  307,  608. 

John,  50,  307. 

Mrs.  Lucy  Ann,  551. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  307. 

Mrs.  Mary  Cabot,  281,  552. 

Ralph,  28,    45,    98,    III,    209-211, 
241,  524,  584,  585,  597. 

Robert,  32,  274,  28 r,  552. 

Mrs.  Ruth,   281,  551,  552. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  241,  584. 

Stephen,  209,   211,    228,    234,   585, 

597,  598. 

Thomas,   33. 

William,  29,    246,    281,    551,    552, 
600. 
Cuba,  83,  225,  596. 
Cumberland  county,  96,  266. 
Cummings,  Eleanor,  468. 

Dr.  E.  P.,  309. 

James,  525. 
Cunningham,  J.  H.,  313. 


Curfew,  49. 

Currier,  Albert,    145,    151,    447,    493, 
494,  602,  604. 

Amos,  535. 

Benjamin  F.,  416. 

Edward,  519,  520,  523. 

Enoch  G.,  604. 

Mrs.  Eunice,  399. 

George  E.,  607. 

Herbert,  613. 

Jacob,  no. 

Ens.  James  H.,  522, 

John,  44,  72,  241,  399,  416,  603. 

John  J,,  15-17,  64,  178,  418,  494, 
562,  605,   60S. 

Joseph  H.,  607. 

Joshua,  496. 

Leonard,  399. 

Mrs.  Mary,  241. 

Matthew,  jr.,  523. 

Moses  Atkinson,    399. 

Moses  Coffin,  399. 

Nathaniel,  518,  535. 

Samuel,  522,  602. 

Solomon  A.,  537. 

Warren,  181,  400,  493,  605-607. 

William,  jr.,  159. 

William  E.,   287. 
Curtis,  Andrew  R.,  610-612. 

George  W.,   175. 

Timothy,  1 10. 
Gushing,  Benjamin,  253. 

Caleb,  17,  114,  117,  174,  178,  253, 
279,  280,  284,  286,  287,  334, 
338,  352,  416,  481-4S5,  492,500, 
559,  561,  601,  603,  614. 

Mrs.  Caroline,  279. 

Mrs.  Caroline    Elizabeth,  482,   500, 

559- 
Mrs.  Ellen  M.,  254. 
Mrs.  Hannah,  253. 
John,  103. 
John  N.,     18,    161,     167,    279,  416, 

601. 
John  Newmarch,  253,  254,  48 1,  559. 
Lawrence   B.,    131,    141,    178,   305, 

370,  502,  615. 
Lydia,  253,  279,  481,  559. 
Sarah,  254,  395. 
Thomas,  467. 

William,  253,  254,  395,  416,  604. 
Gushing  guard,  114,  115. 
Gushing  park,  400. 
Custom  house,  68,  103,  127,  165,  166, 

274.  502,   537. 
Boston,  214,  345,  565. 
Portsmouth,  N.  H,,  476. 


INDEX 


633 


Customs,  Collectors  of,    46,  228,  240, 

250,  548. 
Cutler,  Mrs.  Alice,  189,  191,  195,  196. 

Joseph,  164,  189,  191,  195,  196. 

Rev.  Alanasseh,  100,  108. 

Samuel,  124,  155,  157. 

Sarah,  196. 

Susan,  196. 
Cutter,  Abraham,  414. 

Abram  Edmands,  414. 

Eben  P.,  606. 

Mrs.  Mary,  414. 

Thomas  II.,  605, 
Cutting,  Capt.  John,  504. 

Maiy,  504. 
Cutts,  Anna  Geitrude,  92. 

Richard  D.,  92. 

DAGUERRE,  M.,  307. 
Daily  Evening  Union,  328. 
Daily  Tattler,  540. 
Dalton,  Mr.,  265. 
Mrs.  Abigail,  213. 
Mary,  213,  214,  216,  467,  590. 
Michael,  32,  213,  214,  216,  467. 
Philemon,  213. 
Mrs.  Ruth,    189,  191,  214. 
Tristram,    34,    106-108,    128,     1^9, 
191,  214,  218,  461,  467, 491,  589, 

590,  597-  598. 
Dalton  (privateer),  229,  506,  507,  511. 
Dalton  club,  213. 

Dame,  Charles  C,  287,  336,  493,  605, 
609. 
Luther,  389,  494,  606,  607,  612. 
Dana,  Rev.  Daniel,   18,  129,134,  174, 
212,  272,  497,  498,  500. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  212. 
Prof.  James  F.,  564. 
Joseph,    129,    249,    272,    2S7,  495, 

497,  498. 
Mrs.  Lucy,  272. 
Mrs.  Mary,  272. 
Mrs.  Matilda,  564. 
Rev.  Samuel,  212. 
Mrs.  Susanna,  212. 
Danbury,  Conn.,  93. 
Danford,  Enoch,  516. 
Danforth,  Lucy  P.,   335. 
Daniels,  Abigail,  198. 
Djnvers,  Mass.,   80,    190.     191,    406, 

540,  578. 
Danville,  Me.,  270. 
Dartmouth  college,  270,  272,  275.  277, 
280,    282,    285,    297,    410,    46?, 

473.  555,  564. 
Medical  school,  297,  304,  307. 


Daughters  of  Rebekah,  126. 
Daveds,  John,   516. 
Davenport,  ,  502. 

Messrs.,  120. 

Mr.,  378. 

Anthony,  120,  210,  520,  599. 

Mrs.  Catherine,  210. 

Charles,  521 . 

Charles  W.,   604. 

Harriet,  306. 

John,  306. 

Mr.  M.,  30. 

Moses,  37,  120,  156,  160,  406,602- 
605. 

William,  518,  521,  585. 
Davis,  Aaron,  112,  160,  552. 

Benjamin,  105,  no,  604. 

Charles,  516,  518,  522. 

Capt.  Clemens  E.,  74,  615. 

Capt.  Elias,  93. 

H.  P.,  536. 

Isaac,  93. 

James,  100. 

Jefferson.  109. 

John,  96,  99,  104. 

Capt.  John  O.,  74,  75. 

Joseph,    112. 

Lt.  Joshua,  105. 

Mary  Ann,  275. 

Moody,  452,  453. 

Rebecca  I.,  478. 

Samuel,  100. 

Thomas,  170,  523,  602. 

Thomas  H.,   608. 

William,  123,    148,    160,     167,    168, 
518,  521,   601. 

William  T.,  614. 
Davison,  Daniel,  562. 
Day,  Albert  W.,  321. 

Dr.  Clarence  C,  310. 

Jonathan,  96,  98. 
Dean,  John,  62. 

John  Ward,   561. 
Dearborn,  Dr.  Alvah  B.,  309. 

Benjamin,  35. 
Dear  Isle,  Me.,   25. 
DcBlois,  George,  197. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  197. 
Decatur  (privateer),  66,  249,  303. 
Decatur  1  i-teambrat),  70. 
Declaration    of     Independence,      106, 

270,  278,  463,  464. 
Dedham,  Mass.,  300. 
Deer  island,  122,  341-343,  420. 
Del'Ord,   Simuel    T.,     32,     149,    165, 

601. 
Delany,  James,  96,  98. 


634 


INDEX 


Delaware,  Fort,  109. 
Delia  Walker  (ship),  564. 
Demars,  John,  516. 
Dennis,  Amos,  525. 
Dennison,  Major-general,  576. 
Derby,  Mrs.  Lucy,  285. 
Dernier  Resort  Fire  society,  28. 
DeRochemont,    Charles  H.,  608,  610. 
Desannette,  John,  242. 

Mrs.  Martha,  242. 
Devereux,  Catherine,  218. 

Capt.  John.  563. 
Dewey,  Katherine  S.,  232. 

Mrs.  Louisa,  232. 

Rev.  Orville,  232. 
Dexter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  380,  419,  427, 
429,  430. 

Mrs.  Esther,  380,  430. 

John,  94,  42S. 

Mrs.  Mehitable,   430. 

Nancy,  428,  430,  590. 

Nathan,  380,  428. 

Samuel  Lord,  427,  430. 

Timothy.    59,    102,    220,    277,   334, 
375,  380,  419  438,   590. 
Dexter  house,  351,  423,  430. 
Diana  (British  letter  of  marque),   247. 
Diary    of    John    Quincy    Adams,    230, 
263-265. 

Rev.  William  Bentley,  125. 

Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler,  100. 

Caleb  Haskell,  89. 

Charles  Herbert,    229. 

Paul  Lunt,  506. 
Dickens,  Dr.  Job  B.  ^L,  309. 

Dr.  Job  T.,  309. 
Dickey,  George  A.,  391. 
Dickinson  college,  407. 
Dijon,  France,  211. 
Diligent  (schooner),  221. 
Dimmick,  Rev.   Luther 'F.,    18,    171, 
181,348. 

Mary  E.,  143. 
''  Diosma,"  a  collection  of  poems,  312. 
Directory,  Newburyport,  502,  533. 
Distilleries,    199,  227,  298. 
District  attorney  of  United  States,  514, 

549- 
Dixon,  Alexander,  135. 
Dockham,  C.  Augustme,  502. 
Doctors,  163,  288-300. 
Dodge,  ,  45. 

Abraham,  88,  92,  103,  no,  112. 

Adeline,  551. 

Allen,  551,  600. 

Austin,  389. 

Dana,  606. 

Edwin  Sherrill,  415. 


Dodge,  Elisha  P.,  183,  400,  610. 

Elisha  Perkins,  415. 

Francis,  329. 

John,  148,  517,  522,  563. 

John  S.,  134. 

John  W.,  64,  389. 

Rev.  John  Webster,  65. 

Joseph,  95. 

Judith,  405. 

Mrs.  Katharine  S.,   415. 

Lawrence  Paine,   415. 

Mrs.  Mary,   329. 

Mary  Perley,  329. 

Nathan  D.,  608. 

Nathan  Dane,  415. 

Robert  G.,  612. 

Robert  Gray,  415. 

Samuel,  518,  519,  523. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Perkins,  415. 

Virginia,  329,  331. 

William  H.  P.,  415. 

William  H.  T.,  613. 
Dodge,  Bliss  &  Co.,  45. 
Dodge.   William  H.  P.,  fund,  415. 
Doggett,  Joseph,   521. 
Dole,  Daniel,  597. 

David,  no. 

Eben  S.,  491. 

Elizabeth,  242. 

Irene,  305. 

Jane,  360,  370. 

John,  288,  526. 

Jonathan,  360. 

Mary,  102, 

Nathaniel,  178. 

Richard,  54. 

Willard  W.,  45. 
Doliber,  Ruth,  198. 
Donnell,  Frederick  W.,    521. 

Nathaniel,  418. 
Donniel,  Frederick,  527. 
Donnoly,  James,  94. 
Donovan,  John,  104. 
Dora  (steam  yacht),  82,  83. 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  304,  308,468,  512. 
Dorr,  Edward,  125. 
Doughty,  Francis,  255. 
Douglass,  John  A.,  389. 

William,  51. 
Dover,  N.  H.,  3S2,  408,  574. 
Dow,  Dr.  Aaron,  58. 

George  Francis,  614. 

Irene,  558. 

James  B.,  jr.,  303. 

John,  105. 

Lydia,  253,  279,  481,559. 

Mrs.  Mary  C. ,   303. 
Downer,  Henry  J.,  66. 


INDEX 


635 


Downing,  David,  91,  98,  104. 
Draper, ,  351. 

John,  367. 
Draper,  Murray  &  Fairman,  379,  554. 
Draper,  Toppan,  Longacre  i\:Co.,  368. 
Dresser,  Benjamin,    103. 

Lt.  Daniel,  88. 
Drown,  Mrs.  Comfort,  382. 

Rev.  Edward  L.,  178. 

Mrs.  Phebe,  382. 

Richard  W.,  137,  144,  382,  384. 

Thomas,  382. 

Thomas  S.,  384. 
Drowning,  Rescue  from,  130. 
Drug  stores,  295,  300,  353,  408. 
Dryade  (brig),  532. 
Dry-goods  stores,  352,  473,  550,   551, 

553- 
Duane,  William,   377. 
Dublin,  Ire.,  496. 
Dudley,  Joseph,  198-200,  577. 

Katherine,  19S. 

Mary,  198,  199. 

Simuel,  104. 

Gov.  Thomas,  200. 
Dummer,  Mrs.  Katherine,    198. 

Lt.-gov.  William,  198. 
Dummer  academy,  244,  294,  329,  396, 

407,  411,  563. 
Duning,  David,  96. 
Dunkers'  cemeter)',  (jermantovvn.  Pa., 

478. 
Dunlap,  Gov.  Robert  Pinckney,  274. 
Duplessis,  H.,  124. 
Dupre,  Jacques  Moyse,  349. 

EA.  CREED  (schooner),  20. 
•      East  Boston,  Mass.,  74,  79,  81, 
83,  320,  400. 
Easterbrooks,  Samuel,  99. 
Eastern  Railroad  Company,    43,  252, 
444. 

Depot  of,  at  Rowley,  443. 
East  Ilaverhill,  Mass.,  477. 
East  India  trade,  245,  254,  413. 
East  Indies,  234,  239,  396. 
East  Machias,  Me.,  19, 
Eastman,  Rev.  Lucius  R.,  398. 
Eaton,  Jeremiah,  526. 

Samuel,  94,    1 10. 
Eddy,  Mrs.  Mary  Baker-Glover,   309. 

Tliomas,  277. 
Edes  &  Gill,  499. 
Edgewater  (steamboat),  81. 
Edinburgli,  Scotland,  208,  293. 
Edmands,  Barnabas,  414. 

Mrs.  Eliza,  414. 

Mary  Eliza,  414. 


Edmunds,  William,  524. 
Edwards,  Elizabeth,  455. 

Joseph,  32. 

Moses,  37. 

Samuel,  332. 
Edwina  (schooner),  27. 
Eighth  regiment,  114. 
Eldridge,  Daniel,  96,  98. 

Ellen  Willis,  332. 

Joseph,  520,  524. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Payson,  332. 
Electric  Light    and    Power   Company, 

Newburyport,  154. 
Eliot,  Charles,  184. 

Mrs.  Katherine,  201. 

Samuel,  201. 

Thomas,  103. 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,   321. 
Elks,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 

of,  66. 
Ellingwood,  Mrs.  Harriet  Maria,    219. 

Rev.  John  W. ,  219. 
Elliott,  Mrs.  Betsey  Hayward,  275. 

Daniel,  275. 

James  W.,  21,  539. 
Ellis,  Ilelita,  524. 

S.  A.,  181. 
Ellitt,  Corp.  William,  94. 
Elm  tree  of  the  old  Morse  house,   566. 
Elsey,  Wade,  527. 
Embargo,  The,  269,  272,  278. 
Embezzlement  of  James  ^^  Felker,  537. 
Emerson,  Bulkeley.  119,  120. 

Charles,  516,  525,  527. 

Hannah  B.,  261. 

Hannah  Bliss,  230,  232. 

Rev.  John  E.,  320. 

Ens.  Nehemiah,  90. 

Ralph  Waldo,  175. 

Samuel,  600. 

Rev.  William,  230. 
Emerson's  rocks,    19,  20,  23. 
Emery,  Mrs.  Abigail,   241. 

Caroline,  57,  58. 

George,  125,  602. 

Jonathan,  397. 

Josiah,  241. 

Laurens  C.,  613. 

Mary  A.,  45. 

Moses,  57,  526. 

Nancy,  137. 

Nathaniel,  iii. 

Rev.  Rufus,  348. 

Sarah  A.,  436. 
Emery,  Jonathan,  &  Son,  397. 
Empire  City,  Cal.,  557. 
Encampment     of     Massachusetts,     of 
L  O.  O.  F.,   127. 


636 


INDEX 


Endicott,  Dorcas,  558. 
Engines,  Fire,  32-43. 

houses,  32,  34,  39,  40. 
England,  190,  194,  195,  197,  198,  200, 
203,  21  r,  22t,  226,  234,  245-247, 
249,  250,  252,255,  256,  269,  293, 
304,  325.  332,  346,  370-372,376, 
377.  393.  406,  407.  446,  447.  455- 
457,  465.  47-1,  500,  503.  504,  506, 
507,511,  563,  570,  571. 
Bank  of,  368. 
English  frigates,    249,   252,   313,  507, 
511. 
navy,  199,  200,  295. 
transports,  534, 
Engravers,  347,   351,    363,   367,    368, 

371,  377,  379,  554,  590. 
Bank-note,  554. 
Engraving,  368,  370,   372,  379,  425, 

615. 
Ennis,  John,  94,  97,  98. 
Ensenada  Railway  Company,  393. 
Eon  (steam  fire  engine),  40,  41. 
Episcopal  church,  Newburyport,  498. 
Epitaphs  in  Old  Hill  burying-ground, 

583-588. 
"Epitaphs,"  by  H.  F.  Gould,  313,  549. 
E.  P.  Morris  (steamboat),  77. 
E.  P.  Shaw  (steamboat),    77. 
Ernst,  C.  W.,  esq.,  370. 

Carl  Wilhelm,  614. 
Erskine,  Mrs.  Harriet,  347. 

John,  347. 
Essex,  Mass,,   76,  92,  494. 
Essex  (steamboat),  70. 
Essex  bar  association,  272,  286,  287. 
Essex  county,  200,  267,  269,  271,  282, 

284,  302,  328,  468,  473,  477,  480, 

493.  549.  555.  558. 
History  of,  328. 
Physical  geography  of,  539. 
Essex  street,  123,  145,  170,    172,   174, 

303.  309.  326,  350. 
Essex  hall,  145. 
building,  172. 
Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Mass.,  29,  133, 

375.  377.  495-499,  5oi.  549- 
Essex   Journal    and    New     Hampshire 

Packet,  60,  510. 
Essex  Marine  Insurance  Company,  162. 
Essex-Merrimack  bridge,  75,  122,274, 

276,  340,  346,  420,  428,  462. 
Essex  North  Musical  convention,   181. 
Essex  Steam  Mills,  149. 
Eulogies  on  Gen.  George  Washington, 

270,  498. 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Eleanor  St.  Barbe,   219. 
Joseph,  219. 


Evangeline  (steam  yacht),  80. 
Evans,  John,  jr.,  527. 

John  P.,  608, 

Joseph  W.,  609. 

Richard,   517,  519,  523. 

Thomas,  112. 

Winthrop  O.,  605. 
Eveley,  Lt.  Joseph,  88. 
Everett  (steam  yacht),  80. 
Evergreen  cemetery,  323. 
Ewer,  Charles,  550. 
Ewing,  Captain,  461. 
Exeter,  N.  H.,   294,    347,    371,    404, 

457,  463,  548. 
Expedition,  Lady  Franklin  Bay,   343, 

344- 
against  the  French,  499. 
to  Penobscot  river,  293. 
to  Quebec,  88,  89. 
to  Rhode  Island,  293. 

FAIR  street,  52,  215,  228,  305,  309, 
361. 
Fairbanks,  Caroline  Louisa,  409. 

Hon.  Stephen,  409. 
Fairfield  county.  Conn.,   377. 
Fairhaven,  Mass.,  321. 
Fairlee,  Vt.,  280. 
F'airman,  ,  351,  554. 

Gideon,  367,  368,  379. 
Fall  River,  Mass.,  152. 
Falmouth,  Me.,   262,  265,  266,  468. 
Fame  (brig),  405. 
Faneuil  hall,  Boston,  460. 
Faany  (steamboat),  69. 
Farley,  John  Dennis,  526. 
Farnham,  Catherine  Louisa,  232. 

Charlotte,  232. 

Daniel,   57,  59,  229,  232,  257,  258, 
260,  261,  291,  447,  597. 

Dorothy,  57,  260. 

Elizabeth  Cordis,  232. 

Mrs.  Evelyn,  232. 

Hannah,  57,  260. 

Mrs.  Hannah  B.,  230,  232,  26t. 

Hannah  Bliss,  232. 

John  Hay,  232. 

Katharine,  57,  258-260. 

Louisa,  232. 

Mary  Bliss,  232. 

Phebe  Bliss,  232. 

Samuel,  261. 

Sarah,  26  r. 

Sibyl  Angier,  232. 

Sibyll,  57,  229,  257,  260,  291. 

William,    57,     229-232,    260,    261, 
301. 

William  Emerson,  232. 


INDEX 


^37 


Farnsvvorth  (steam-tug),  78,  79. 

Farrington,  DeWitt,   75. 

Farris,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  202,  203. 
Mrs.  Frances,  203,  212,  544. 
Margaret,  203. 

William,  29,    iii,    157,    202,    203, 
207,  212,  349,   544. 

Farris  &  Stocker,  203,  385. 

Faunce,  George,  303. 
Mrs.  Mary  C,  303. 

Fayetweather,  Margaret,  396. 

Feijiger,  Christian,  86, 

Federal  constitution,    107,  2S6,  467. 

Federal  Fire  society,   30. 

Federal  street,  19,  31,  36,  37,  39,  42, 
130,  133,  151.  152,  181,  207, 
211,  223,  224,  234,  235,  237, 
239,  241,  242,  269,  270,  361, 
396,  437,  457,  501,  503,  532. 
meeting-house,  18,  49,  174,  448, 
450. 

Felker,  James  V.,  78,  537,  613. 

Felton,  Hugh,   103. 
Samuel  M.,  175. 

Female  Bethel  society,  142,  143. 

Female  high  school,    334,    389,    392, 
395,  408-410. 

Female  seminary,  Byfield,  477. 

Females,   Society    for    the    Relief    of 
Aged,  138-141. 

Fenney  John,  519. 

Fernald,  II.  B.,  287. 

Ferry,  Amesbury,  461. 

Ferry  at  Cart's  island,  577,  578. 

Ferry  landing  place,  225. 

Ferry  road,  13,  186,  299,  399,  401. 

Ferry,  Upper,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  376. 

Ferry  wharf,  251,  400. 

Fiberloid  Manufacturing  Co.,  45. 

Field,  William  Nichols,  565. 

Fielding,  John,  97,  98. 

Fillmore,  John  T.,  73,  81. 
Millard,  329. 

Finey,  John,  523. 

Fires,  27,  31,  33,  36,  37,  40,  41,   149, 
159,    240,    300,    336,    349,    405, 

463,  473,  548,  562. 
Fire  of   1811,31,  37,   159,    240,  349, 

405,  463,  473. 
Fire  alarm,  42. 

buckets,  29,  34,  36,  37. 

by-laws,  33. 

department,  38-40,  117. 

engines,  32-43. 

hooks,  33,  36,  37. 
Firemen,  35,  37,  38,  40,  43,  45. 

Benefit  association,  45. 

Fund  for  injured,  43. 


Firemen,  Hale  fund  for,  43. 

Sick  Benefit  association,  44. 
I'ire  societies,  27-32. 
Firewards,  33-36,  38,  60. 
First  Baptist  society,   60. 
First  church,  Cambriige,  496. 
Newbury,  496. 
Xewburyport,  496,  497. 
West  Newbury,  180. 
First     Congregational     church,      West 

Newbury,   556. 
First  National  Bank,  169,  170. 
First  Parish  church,  Medford,  279. 
Salem  X'illage,  578. 
West  Newbury,  63. 
First  Parish  meeting-house,  41. 

Newbury,  506. 
First  Parish  society.  West  Newbury,  63. 
First  Presbyterian  church,  272. 

and  society,  448. 
First  Presbyterian    meeting-house,    19. 
181,  270,  318,  457-459.  5oi»  532- 
First  Religious  society,  135,    181,   230, 
232,    278,    299,    329.    332,    334, 
406,  467,  469,  501,565. 
Newburyport,  39,  276,  498,  499. 
meeting-house    of,    123,    299,    430, 
487,  498,  499. 
Fish  street,   53,    213,    219,    234,   261, 

262,  289,    293. 
Fisher,  Mrs.  Mary,   290. 
William,  290. 
William  G.,  611. 
Fishing  Insurance  Company,  Newbury- 
port Mutual,  160. 
FisV,  Lt.  Joseph,  92. 
Fiske,  Rev.  Daniel  I.,  178,  348. 

Prof.  John,  178.  " 
Fitz,  George,   70. 
John,  599. 
Mark,  146,  147. 
Nathaniel,  518. 
Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  169. 
Flag  of  five  stars,  515. 
Flagg,  Grizzell  Apthorp,  312. 
Flagg  &  Gould,  500. 
Flanders,  Artemas,  jr.,  519. 
Charles,  526-528. 
Daniel,  110,  1 11. 
Enoch,   526. 
Enoch  C,  52,  53. 
John,  517, "523. 
Nathaniel,  522,  526. 
Nathaniel  F.,  517. 
Nehemiah,   517,  519,  523,  527. 
William,  520,  523. 
Flavers,  John,   518. 
Fleet,  T;&  J.,  155. 


638 


INDEX 


Fleet's  almanacs,  155. 
Fletcher,   Rev.  J.  C,  346,  348. 

John,  59S. 

Julia  Constance,  348. 
Florence  (steamboat),  76,  77. 
Florence,  Italy,  351,  554. 
Floyd,  Joseph,  1 10. 

Robert,  21,  539. 
Flying  Fish  (schooner),  22. 
Flynn,  John,  94. 
Fogg,  Caleb,  104. 

Clarence  J.,  612. 
F"ollansbee,  Caroline,  381. 

Catherine,  352. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  381. 

Lucy  Maria,  381. 

Mary,  381. 

Nathan,  147,  352,  521. 

Samuel,  no. 

Sophia  Ann,  142. 

Capt.  Thomas  M.,  381. 

William,  103. 
Folsom,  Benjamin,   516, 
Fontigebeau,  Colonel,  462. 
Foot,  Caleb,  94. 

Enoch,  96-98,  104. 

James,  527. 

James  L.,  52,  524. 

Samuel,  89. 
Forbes,  William,  416. 
Ford,  Andrew,  380. 

Margaret,  380,  381. 

Samuel  D.,  523. 

Samuel  J.,  127. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  380. 
Foreman,  Amos,  519,  521. 
Forest  Hills  cemetery,  317. 
Forrester  street,  42. 
Fort  Delaware,  109. 

at  Isles  of  Shoals,  547. 

Oswego,  211. 

Philip,  515. 

on  Plum  island,   16. 

at  Portsmouth,  548. 
Forts,  16,    100,    109,    211,    515,  547, 

54S. 
Fortuna  (sloop),  27. 
Fortune  (negro?),  589. 
Fortune  teller,  439. 
Forty-eighth    Massachusetts    regiment, 

400,  485. 
Foss,  David,  145,  309. 
Ernest,  287. 
John,  497. 
Foss,  John,  "Journal    of  the  Captivity 

and  Sufferings  of,"  497. 
Foster,  Daniel,  no,  in,  523. 
Capt.  Henderson,  19. 


Foster,  John,  89. 

Moses,  92. 

Nathaniel,   32,  417. 

Robert,  62,  600. 

Samuel,  67,  68,  600. 

Samuel  H.,  600. 

Ens.  Solomon,  521. 

Mrs.  Susan,  92. 

Thomas,  32. 
Fountains,  Drinking,  399-401. 
Fouquet,  Elizabeth,  212,  540. 

Mary  Jane,  540. 
Fourth  Essex  district  (state  senatorial), 

485,  493,  494. 
Fourth    Middle   congressional    district 
(Essex    county),    468,    473,    476, 

Fourth  Religious  society,  325,  450. 

meeting-house  of,  325. 

Newburyport,  448. 
Fowle,  Mrs.  Alice,  191,  195. 

Greenfield  Hooper,  195. 

Jacob,  191,  195. 

James  Roland,   195. 

Robert,  121,  195,  196. 

Stephen  Hooper,  195. 

Mrs.  Susan,   196. 

Susannah,  195. 
Fowler,  George  W.,  279. 

Hannah,  327. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Louisa,  279. 

Jacob,  1 10. 

Moses  H.,  605-607. 

Mrs.  Moses  H.,  179. 

Richard,  602. 
Fowles,  Helen  B.,  44,  45. 
Fox,  Mary,  272. 

Rev.  Thomas  B.,  175,  348. 
Fox  (ship),  247. 
Francestown,  N.  H.,  328. 
Francis,  Col.  Ebenezer,  93,  98,  99. 

James,  520,  525. 

William  ("  Emperor"),  454. 
Frankfort,  19. 

Pa.,  326. 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  377. 
Franklin  (schooner),  23. 
Franklin,  Dr.,  Wooden  statue  of,  422. 
Fraternity  hall,  177,  178,  185. 
Frazier,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,   546. 

Mary,  546. 

Moses,   546,  598. 
Frederic  Reed  (schooner),  19. 
Frederickton,  N.  B.,  353. 
Freemasonry,  275,  305,  311. 
Freemasons,   119-121,   124,   215,   294, 

350. 
Fremont,  John  C,  330. 


INDEX 


639 


French,  Betsey,  298. 

Charles,  602. 

David  M.,  399. 

James  P.,  387. 

Capt.  Joshua,  104. 

Mary  Evadne,   382. 

Hon.  Ralph,  382. 

Samuel,  jr.,  600. 
French,  Expedition  against  the,  41^9. 

fleet,   100. 

government,  466. 

minister,  292. 

privateers,  235,  474,  547. 

revolution,  461. 

sailors,  531. 
Friend,  William,  89,  112,  225,  525. 
Friendly  Fire  society,  31. 
Friends'  Academy,  339. 
Frigates,  229,  506,  507,  531,  592. 

English,  221,  313,  511. 
Frog  pond,  113,   114,  184,    191,   193, 

230,  238,  244,  401. 
Frost,  John  S.,  608. 
F'rothingham,  Andrew,  65,  147. 

Benjamin,  29,  102,  380,  419. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  380,  419. 

Oilman,  167. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  408. 

Henry,  65,  157,  161,  167,  524,  601. 

Isaac,  94,  105. 

Mrs.  Jane,  65. 

Joseph,  32. 

Joseph  A.,  137,  146,  171,  408,  605. 

Mrs.  Martha,  408. 

Stephen,  31,  408,  601. 
Fruit  street,  174,  303,  368,  371,  476, 

556. 
Frye,  Joshua,  523. 
P'uller,  A.,    71. 

Col.  Nathan,  96. 

Pomp,  589. 
Funerals,  18,  19,  215,   329,   407,  421, 

427. 
Furgerson,  James,  105. 

John,  105. 
Furlong,  Henry,  31,  525. 
Furnald,  James,  524. 

Joseph,  520. 

Thomas,  517. 

GACIE,  Captain,  130,  372. 
Benjamin,   563. 
Jonathan,    67,    122-125,    '57>    '7o> 

361,  599. 
Mary,  133,  361. 
Gen.  Thomas,  190,  191. 
(iale,  Daniel,  \o\. 
Matia  A.,  343. 


Gale,  Dr.  Stephen  M.,  309. 

Gall,  Daniel,   526,  527. 

Gallashan,  Abraham,  32. 

Galveston,  Harrisburg  &  San  Antonio 

Railway  Company,  284. 
Gamewell  Electric  Fire  Alarm  System, 

42. 
Gardner,  George,  149. 

Joseph,  521. 

Robert,  517,  519,  520,  526-528. 
Garrison.  Ahijah,  315. 

Mrs.  Fanny,  315. 

William  Lloyd,   315-317,   352,   399, 
400. 
Garrison,    William    Lloyd,    Statue    of, 

399,  400. 
Gas  and  Electric  Company,   Newbury- 

port,    154. 
Gates,  Gen.  Horatio,  95. 
Gatt,  Thomas,   518. 
Gay,  George  E.,  391. 
General  P)artlett  (steamboat),  74,  75. 
General  Charitable  society,    143,  410. 
General    court,    15,  17,  38,   190,   209, 

278,  504,  570-577,  580. 
George,  Edward  H.,  417. 

George  J.,  417,  605. 

Joseph,  123,  601. 

Moses,  97-99,  104. 
George  A.  Chaffee  (steam-tug),  80. 
Cieorgetown,  D.  C,  329,  405. 

Mass.,  44,  473,  493,  494. 
Germania   orchestra   of    Boston,    182, 

184. 
Gerrish,  Benjamin,  33. 

Enoch,  526,  608,  609. 

Serg.  Franklin,  526. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  552. 

Jacob,  88,  92,  223,  5S2,  563. 

John,  526. 

Joseph,  88,  517. 

Joseph  G.,  287,  606. 

Mary,  358,  507. 

Mary  P.,  127. 

Moses  ("  Fooney  "),  453. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  238,  552. 

Col.  Samuel,  86. 

Stephen,  238,  552. 

William,  507. 

Zilpha,  235,  238,  239,  308,  392. 
Gerrick,  Mayo,  525. 
Getchell,  Emily  A.,  179. 

Emily  Adams,  344. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Rolfe,  344. 

1  lubbard,  344. 

Serg.  William,   524. 
Ghost,  534-536. 
Gibraltar,  199,  200. 


640 


INDEX 


Gibson,  Mary    414. 

Samuel,  516,  517,  519. 
Giddings,  Daniel,  250,  508. 

James,  32. 

Hon.  Joshua  R.,  175. 

Lydia,  92. 

Sarah,  250,  251,  508,  509. 
Gifford,  Rev.  Andrew,  D.  D.,  497. 
Gifts,  227,  236,  238. 
Giles,  Gaisford,  552. 

Rev.  John,  552. 

Thomas,   97. 
Gillett,  Herbert  E.,  184. 
Gilman,  Aithur,  600. 

Capt.  Jeremiah,   89. 

Hon.  John  T.,  294. 

S.  K.:  125. 

Whittingham,  601. 
Gilman,  W.  &  J.,  500. 
Gilmore,  Blake  &  Ward,  407. 
Glennie,  Rev.  J.  D.,  325. 
Glide  (steamboat),  73. 
Glines,  John,  524. 
Globe  (steamboat),  25. 
Globe  Steam  Mills,  151,  169. 
Gloucester,   ]\Iass.,  25,  80,    195,   335, 

460,  468,  494. 
Godefroy,  Cools,  349. 

Nicholas  Cools,  349. 
Godfrey,  Harriet,  347. 
Goldsmith,  Jeremiah,  97,  99. 

Oliver,  174. 
Goodale,  Thomas,  97,  98. 
Goodhue,  James  S.,  516. 
Goodrich,  Oliver,  no. 
Goodridge,   Maj.   Elijah  Putnam,  274, 

276,  280. 
Goodwin,  Deacon,  449. 

Ann,  310. 

Charles  H.,  607-609. 

Ephraim,  516,  525. 

Lt.  John,  526. 

Levi,  526. 

Moses,  350. 

Thomas,  ^27. 

William  W„  64. 
Gookin,  Hannah,  200,  216. 
Gordon,  Charles,  517,  521. 

Robert,  519,  523. 

Stephen,  527,  528. 

Timothy,  no,  in. 

William,  139. 
Gorham,  Lt,  Shuball,  88. 
Gorham,  Me.,  307. 
Gospel,  Society  for  the  Propagation   of 

the,  548. 
Gough,  John  B.,  175,  325,  326. 

Mrs.  Mary  B.,   325. 


Gough,  Mrs.  Mary  E.,  326. 
Gould,  Benjamin,    92,  no,   n2,  312, 
553,  560. 

Benjamin  A.,  413,  553. 

Mrs.  Grizzel,  553,  560. 

Mrs.  Grizzeli  Apthorp,  312. 

Hannah  P.,  338,  501,  549,  553,  560, 
561. 

Hannah  Flagg,  312,  313. 

Thomas,  97,  99. 
Governors,    190-192,    198,    267,    294, 
387,  445,  464,  471,  576,  577. 

of  Massachusetts,  471. 

of  New  Hampshire,  294,  464. 

of  Vermont,  267. 
Graham,  John,  97,  99. 
Grand  Central  Argentine  Railway  Com- 
pany, 393. 
Grand  Lodge  of  L  O.  O.  F.  of  Massa- 
chusetts, 126. 

of  the  United  States,  126. 
Grand  Manan,  Island  of,  354,  356. 
Grand  National  Peace  Jubilee,  182. 
Grant,  Frederick,  352. 

Joel,  275. 

Mrs.  Lilla,  352,  353. 

Ulysses  S.,  331,  484. 

Zilpah  Polly,  275. 
Grasshopper  plain,  14. 
Gravel  hill,  431. 
Graves,   Mary  P.,  142. 

True  G.,  527,  528. 

Truel  G.,  527. 

William,  72,  416,  604-606. 
Gravestone  inscriptions,  583-580. 
Gravestones,  185,  240,  260,   338,  361, 

558,  583-589- 
Graveyards,  185,  314,  506. 
Gray,  Rev.  Frederick  T.,  67. 

John,  325,  415. 

Katharine  S.,  415. 

Lucia,  404. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  415. 

WilHam,  404. 
Grazebrook,  Margaret,  580. 
Great  Britain,  136,  234,  272,  278,  368, 

484,  576. 
Greaton,  Obed  W.,  612,  613. 
Greely,  Maj. -gen.  Adolphus  Washing- 
ton, 343. 

Ens.  Benjamin,  523. 

Mrs.  Prances  Cobb,  343. 

Mrs.  Henrietta  Crager  Hudson,  343. 

John  Augustus,  607. 

John  Balch,  343. 

Lucius  H.,  251. 

Nathaniel,  520,  523,  604. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  579. 


INDEX 


&41 


Green,  Anna  Winslow,  564. 
E.  Davis,  501. 
John,  518,  523. 
Mrs.  Sarah,  408. 
Sarah  A.,  144. 
Sarah  Ann,  408. 
Silas,  408. 
Serg.  Thomas,  94. 
Greene,  Major-general,  91. 

Katherine,  269. 
Green,  The,  538. 
Lower,  13,  14. 
Green   street,    14,  31,  53-55,  65,    IC2, 
114,    122,    123,    129,    138,    157, 
158,    194,    195,    227,    246,    262, 
265,    302,    347,    361,    382,    387, 
419,    420,    442,    468,    473,    474, 

533.  551- 
Greenland,  Dr.  Henry,  28S. 
(Greenland,  N.  H.,  246,  438,  451. 
Greenlaw,  Captain,  18. 
Greenleaf,  Abel,    361,  598. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  211. 

Albert  W.,  141,  384. 

Ann,  360-362. 

Benjamin,   loi,  146,  211,  262,   284, 

285,  553,  597.  598. 
Catherine,  210. 
Capt.  Charle?,  521. 
Daniel,   207. 
Mrs.  Dorothy,  210. 
Ebenezer,  211,  597. 
Elizabeth,  262,  285,  553,  591. 
Enoch,  210. 

Mrs.  Fraisalette  Cutler,  553. 
George,  31,  521,  591. 
Hannah,  210,  311,  362. 
Henry,  97. 
Jane,  211,  212. 
John,  35,  60,    61,    147,    160,    161, 

284,  382,  521,  553,  599. 
Jonathan,    207-210,   234,   242,   302, 

311,  491. 
Joshua,  122-124,  600. 
Mrs.  Lucy,  285. 
Mrs.  Lydia,   210,  21 1. 
Mrs.  Marcia,  210. 
Martha,  241. 

Mrs.  Mary,   207,  210,  242. 
Mrs.  Mary  S.,  591. 
Mayo,  93. 

Moses,  90,  93,  98,  99,  210,  31 1. 
Richard,  210. 
.Samuel,  99,  597. 
.Sarah,  207,  21c,  242,  284. 
Simon,  210,  311. 
Thomas,  99. 
Greenleai's  lane,  201. 


Greenleaf  street,  139,  450. 
Greenough,  John,  30. 

Jonathan,  105. 

Norman  C,  605. 

William,  121. 
Greenwood,  Capt.  Miles,  563. 

Sarah  Miles,  513. 
Gregg,  Captain,  534. 
Gregory,  John,  543. 

Mrs.  Lucy,  543. 
Gridley,  Jeremy,  es<[.,  119. 
Gritiin,  Eliphalet,  91,  94,  I4r,  142. 

Jacob,  516,  518,  519,  524,  526-528. 

Laroy  F.,  391. 

Serg.  Robert,  516. 
Griffith,  Eliphalet,  97,  98. 
Grind,  Joseph,  525. 
Grist  mills  at  Pine  island,  562. 
Grosvenor,  Edwin  Augustus,  343. 

Dr.  E.  P.,  309. 

Dr.  Edwin  Prescott,  343. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  343. 
Groton,  Mass.,  302,  557. 
Grout,  Doctor,  463. 
Groveland,  Mass.,  493,  494,  500. 
Guadaloupe,  Island  of,  212,  214,    226, 

297. 
Guayatpil,  392,  393. 
Guernsey,  Island  of,  210. 
Guiney,  Joseph,  497. 
Gun-house,  113-116. 
Gunnison,  Benjamni,  134. 

Ehenezer,  31,  600. 
Guppy  &  Armstrong,  147. 
Gurney,  Orrin  J.,  608,  610. 
Gwynn,  Anthony,  234. 

Mary,  233,  234. 

HACKETT,  Mrs,  Betsey,  298, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  298. 

John,  298,  531. 

Dr.  PhiUips  White,  298-300. 

Sarah  Ann,  29S. 

William,  531. 
Haines,  Ebenezer,  104. 
Hale,  Mrs.,  305. 

Mrs.  Alice,  304. 

Anne  Gardner,  334. 

Benjamin,  67,  161,  167,  608. 

Benjamin  W.,  i6j. 

Charles  W.,  604. 

David,  44,  105,  154,  169. 

Ebenezer,  31,  43,  56,  58,  304. 

Edward  A.,  610. 

Elizabeth,  288,  289. 

Enoch,   112,  215. 

Dr.  Frank  A.,  44,  309. 

Frank  W.,  287,  609. 


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INDEX 


Hale,  George  E.,  29,  67. 
Isaac,  154,  604,  605. 
Jacob,  334. 
Hon.  John  P.,    175. 
Joseph  W.,  63,  409. 
Joshua,  43,  58,  416,  418. 
Josiah  L.,  43,  416. 
Mrs.  Julia  Ann,  409. 
Julia  Maria,  409. 
Lydia  B..  67. 
Margaret  Curzon,  359. 
Mrs.  Mary  Jane,  334. 
Moses,  522. 
Moses  E.,  416. 
Moses  L.,  43. 
Nathan,  32,  288,  289. 
Samuel,  31,  162,  163. 
Sarah,  288,  385. 
Mrs.  Sarah  White,  56,  58,  144,  304, 

305,  416. 
Thomas,  43,  2S8,  304. 
Hale's  court,  125,  145. 
Halifax,  225. 
Hall,  Charles,  517,  525. 
Dr.  Charles  F.  A.,  310. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  241. 
Hannah,  233. 
Isaac,  233,  241. 
Joseph,  6o3. 
Mary,  226. 
Sarah,  346. 
Thomas,  523. 
William,  518,  523,  526. 
Halliday,  John,  88. 
Hallowell,  Me.,   286,  295,  473. 
Ham,  Joseph,  518. 

Thomas,  31. 
Hamblett,  Horace,  605. 
Hamilton,  Alexander,  422 
Wooden  statue  of,  422. 
Charlotte,  371. 
James,  104. 
Mary  Ann,  321. 
Dr.  Robert  D.,  310. 
Thomas  A.,  55. 
Hamilton,  Mass.,  108,  46S,  494. 
Hammond,  Mrs.  Caroline  Le\\is,  215. 
Elizabeth,  414. 
Capt.  William,  J15. 
Hampstead,  N.  H.,  298,  385,  386,  430. 
Hampton,  N.  H.,  54,   213,    216,   291, 

439>  565,  578- 
"Hampton  beach,"  501. 
Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  220,  347,  375. 
Hancock,  John,  419, 

Wooden  statue  of,  422. 
Hancock  (United  States  frigite),    205, 
209. 


Hannah  Stone  (schooner),  24. 
Hannibal  (ship),  221. 
Hanniford,  William,  97,  98. 
Hanson,  Mrs.  Delia  Walker,   565. 

Richard  M.,   565. 
Harbut,  Joseph,  97,  99. 
Harding,  Chester,  370. 

William,  97,  99. 
Harding,  Dudley,  518. 

Israel,  94. 
Harlem  Heights,  N.  Y.,  91,  92. 
Harmony  Encampment    of  Amesbury, 

Mass.,  I.  O.  O.  F.,    127. 
Harmony  Grove  cemetery,  Salem,  407. 
Harpy  (brig),  534. 
Harpy  (privateer),  66,  249. 
Harris,  Abigail,  109. 

Benjamin,    191,  194,  197,  201,  202. 

Bethiah,  280.  555. 

Edward,  108,  109,  223. 

Elizabeth,  201. 

Harriet,  468. 

Rev.  Henry,  201,  202. 

John,  97,  98. 

Jonathan,  1 1 1 . 

Mrs.  Lucy,  201,  202. 

Mary,  189,  191,  194,  197,  201,  545. 

Mehitable,  476,  477. 

Rachel,   563. 

Robert,  476. 
Harris  street,  65,  66,    145,    174,    194, 
197,    201,    227,    246,    250,    350, 

474- 
Meeting-house  on,  41. 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  Capitcl  at,  351. 
Harrison  street,  42. 
Harrod,  EHzabeth,  212. 
Hart,  Eliza  A.,  137. 

Robert  E.,  613. 
Hartford,  Conn.,  239,   317,    318,  320, 

321,  335,  501. 
Harvard,  Mass.,  60. 
Harvard  college,  64,  92,  191,  193,  195, 
200,    214,    220,    227,    232,     239, 
245,    254,    256,    257,    261,     262, 
264-271,  274,  277,  279,  281,  282, 
284,  286,  291-293,  295,  297,  301, 
302,    305,    306,    310,    313,     321, 
335,    382,    395.    396,   403,    404, 
406,    409,    440,    441,   481,    485, 
512,  513,  552,  563,  57S. 
Law  school,  279,  3T1,  312,  485. 
Medical  school,  310. 
Harwood,  Emily,  63. 
Haseltine,  William,  69. 
Haskell,  Andrew  L.,  417. 
Caleb,  89,  III,  353. 
Caleb  Niles,  502. 


INDEX 


643 


Haskell,  Cicero,    103,  104. 

David,  525. 

Enoch,  525. 

Mrs.  Fanny  Matilda,  353. 

George,  415. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  415. 

H.  B.,  517. 

Hiram  Betts,  353. 

Jacob,  175,  177. 

Joseph,  523. 

Nathan,  103. 

Nehemiah,  60,  112,  599. 

Solomon,  415. 
Hastings,  William,  517,  523. 
Haunted  schoolhouse,  534-536. 
Havana,  Cuba,  92,  225,  463,  531. 
Haverhill,    Mass.,    69-76,    79,   80,  81, 
90,  129,  227,  303,  371,  386,  408, 
462,    468.    471,    494,    534,     550, 

557.  590- 
Haverhill  Express  Company,  78. 
Haverhill  Library  catalogue,  497. 
Haverhill,     Newbur\port    and    Boston 

Steamboat  Company,  8r. 
Haverhill  Steamboat    Express   Compa- 
ny, 74- 
Havers,  John,  518. 
Haverty,  Captain,  76.  81. 
Hawkeswood,  346. 
Hay,  Elizabeth,  414. 

Capt.  John,  57,  258,  260. 

Mrs.  Katharine,  57,  258-260. 
Hayes,  Mrs.  Abigail,  407. 

Daniel,  407. 

Mabel  L.,  391. 

Sarah  Ann,  407. 
Haynes,  Capt.  Aaron,  89. 
Hay  scales,  37,  386. 
Hayward,  Mrs.  Kathrine  H.,  232. 
Hazel  Dell  (steam-tug),  79. 
Hazeltine,  Hannah,  253. 
Head,  Charles,  556. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  556. 
Head  &  Amory,  243,  244. 
Healey,  Dr.  James  J.,  309. 

Jere,  611. 

Sarah,  579. 

Dr.  Thomas  R.,  310. 
Health  Insurance  Company,  163. 
Heath,  Charles,  368. 
Heckling,  Sarah,  564. 
Helen  (ship),  325. 
Hemphill,  Cust,  97,  99. 

David,  97. 
Hen  and  chickens  of  Antonio  Knight, 
444. 

Hendee,  ,  501. 

Henly,  Colonel,  99, 


Henry,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Ingersoll,  321. 

John  Snowden,  321. 

Sarah,  321. 
Henshall,  Lt.-col.  William,  91. 
Herald  (steamboat),   70. 
Herbert,  Charles,  iii,  229. 

Mrs.  Jane,  229. 

John,  229. 

Mis.  Molly,  229. 
Hercules  (iron  collier),    78. 
Hercules  (ship),  215. 
Herlihy,  Timothy  S.,  287. 
Herrick,  Peter,  156. 
Ilerrington,  Patrick,   88. 
Hervey,  Davis,  525. 

Joseph  B.,  417. 

WilHam,  68. 
Hesper  (ship),  253. 
Ileywood,  Capt.  Samuel,  596. 
Hibernia  (schooner),  222,  223. 
Hicks,  Wdliam  W.,  180. 
Hidden,  John,  52,  ^t,. 
Higgins,  Captain,  23. 
Higginson,  Sarah,  261,  268,  269. 

Stephen,  261,  268. 

Thomas  Wentworth,  299,  334,  501. 
High  school,  336,  392. 

Newton,  Mass.,  391. 
High  street,  13-15,  31,  37,  56-58,  60- 
65,  112,  128,  133,  138,  140,  145, 
I55i  174.  179,  199'  203,  218-221, 
223,  224,  230,  238,  246,  251, 
252,    254,    257,    261,    289,    301, 

304,  308,  309,  328,  332,  339. 
348,  351,  382,  384,  3S6,  387, 
399-401,  405,  406,  409,  411,  420, 
428-430,  437,  447,  451,  457.460, 
476,  477,  482,  503,  556,  564, 
566,  568,  570. 
Hill,  George  B.,  371. 

George  W.,  176. 

Joseph,  573,  574. 

Lucy  E.  R.,  63. 

Sir  Rowland,  370. 
Hilliard,  Rev.  Tmiothy,  496. 
Hills,  Mrs.  Anne,  504. 

Elizabeth,  359. 

Mrs.  Eleanor,  504. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  504. 

Mrs.  Helen,  504. 

Dr.  John  ^L,  223. 

Joseph,  504,  572. 

Joshua,  127,  524. 

Laura  Coombs,  35S,  359. 

Mrs.  Lydia,  127. 

Mrs.  Mary,  358. 

Mrs.  Mary  P.,  127. 

Nathaniel,  223,  287,  361. 


644 


INDEX 


Hills,  Philip  K.,  176,  604. 

Philip  Knapp,  126,  127,  358. 

Mrs.  Rose,  504. 
Hinckley,  Judge,  272. 

William,  578. 
Hingham,  Mass.,  92. 
Historical    Society   of    Old   Newbury, 

178. 
History  of  "  Newburyport  in  the  Civil 

War,"  345. 
Hobert,  Thos.,  523. 
Hoboken,  N.  J.,  332. 
Hobson,  Jeremiah,  95. 

Moses,  95. 
Hodge,  Abigail,  397. 

Mrs.  Betsey  Hayward,  275. 

Chailes,  29,  525. 

James,  30. 

Lucy,  559. 

Mrs.  Mary,  275. 

Michael,    29,  89,  91,  112,  113,  119, 
147,    155,    164,    274,    287,     49S, 

499,  59^- 

Naihaniel,  517,  522. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  274. 

Serg.  S.  S.,  520. 
Hodgkins,  Francis,  33. 

Jacob,  no. 

James,  1 04. 

Lt.  Joseph,  88,  92. 
Holbrook,  Ellen  M,,  254. 

Holden,  ,  74. 

Holderness,  N.  II.,  195. 
Holland,  Stephen,  135,  600. 
Holland,  229,  234,  247-249,  253,  356, 

357,  531,  571- 
HoUiday,  John,  123. 

Thomas,  90,  94,  97,  98. 
HoUis,  N.  II.,  302. 
Hollis    Street   Congregational    church, 

Boston,  279. 
Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell,  175. 
Holt,  David,  104. 

Nicholas,  56. 
Holton,  Albert,  239. 

Mrs.  Margaret  Brierly,  239. 
Holyoke,  Dr.,  297,  301. 
Home  for  Aged  Women,  139,  140. 
Home  for  Aged  Men,  413. 
Homer,  Dr.  John,  309, 
Homrepathic  hospital,  401. 
Honeywell,  Richard,  97. 
Hook's  rock,  529. 
Hook  and  Ladder  company,  39,  42. 
Hooker,  Serg.  Richard,  523. 

William,  31,  377,  379,  590. 
Hooker  &  Fairman,  379. 
Hooks,  Fire,  33,  36,  37. 


Hoole,  John,  379. 
Hooper,   "King,"  189. 

Madam,  438,  439. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  192. 

Alice,  189,  191,  193,  195,  196,  277, 
396. 

Amelia  Whittemore,  197. 

Mrs.  Anna,  191. 

Benjamin  Harris,  194,  197. 

Elizabeth,    194. 

Elizabeth  Harris,  194,  197,  545. 

Mrs.  Frances,  544. 

Greenfield,  191. 

Hannah,  191. 

Harriet,  194,  197,  468-470. 

Henrietta  Tracy,  197. 

Jane,  438. 

John  Whittemore,  197. 

Joseph,  189-191,  194,195,197,198, 
201,  322,  545. 

Lucy,  197,  322,  323. 

Mrs.  Mary,  189,  191,  192,  194,  197, 
201,  545. 

Mary  Harris,  197. 

Mrs.  Rachel,  322. 

Rebeckah,  189,  191,  196. 

Robert,  189-194,  196,  214. 

Robert  C,  193. 

Ruth,  189,  191,  194,  196,  197,  214. 

Samuel,  191,  192. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  189,  191,  193,  277. 

Stephen,    119,  120,    135,    136,    189, 
191,  193,  194,  277,  396,  492. 

Mrs.  Susan  Cofifin,  194,  278. 

Swett,  191. 

Thomas,  91,  99. 

Thomas  W.,  227,  468,  470. 

Thomas  Woodbridge,  194,  544. 

William  Woart,  197. 
Hopkins,  John,  340. 

Mrs.  Louisa  Parsons,  339,  340. 

Thomas,  96. 
Hopkinton,  Mass.,  277,  550. 
Horton,  Daniel,  599. 

Jacob,  163,  601. 

James,  167,  171,  382,  522. 

Mrs.  Mary  Evadne,  382. 

Mrs.  Nancy,  382,  416. 

Nathaniel,  601-603. 

Obadiah,  31,  32. 

Rev.  William,  137,  382,  383. 
Horton  street,  42. 
Hose  carriages,  42,  43. 
Hosiery  Company,  Newburyport,    147, 

148. 
Hospital,  Anna  Jaques,   144,  334, 
Hospital    Life    Insurance     Company, 
397. 


INDEX 


64s 


Hospitals,   144,    238,    293,    295,  310, 

334,  397- 
Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co.,  346. 
House,  Dexter,  351. 

Stone,  346. 

Tracy,  176. 
House  o(  representatives,  478,  482, 
Houston,  Hon.  Sam,   175. 

William  F.,  3S4,  537,  609,  612,613. 
Hovey,  Rev.  Horace  C.,  135,  348. 
Howard,  Benjamin,   32,  319. 

Caroline,  319. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  319. 

Nathaniel,  32,  no,  520. 

Rogers.,  175,  387. 

Stephen,  67,  68,  122,  125,  157,170, 
600. 

William,  525. 
Howard  Benevolent  society,  Newbury- 
port,    136,    137,    139,    384,  410, 
413. 
Howe,  Farnham,  no,  ni. 

Francis  A  ,  44,  45,  144,  309,  609. 

Isabella  H.,  391. 

Mrs.  Mary  McKinstiy,   63. 
Hoyt,  Mr.,  35. 

Alvah,  610. 

David  W.,  389. 

Elbridge  G.,  415. 

Elizabeth,  62. 

John,  520,  522. 

Corp,  Jo",  94. 

Joseph,  31,  62,  63,  293. 

Margaret  F.,  415. 

Mrs.  Mary,  415. 

Mary  Jane,  334. 

Mrs.  Mehitable,  430. 

Moses,  526,   599. 

Samuel,  31,  525. 

Sarah,  226. 

William,  62-64. 
Hudson,  Henry,  155,  156,  521,  599. 

James,  529. 

John  R.,  31,  136. 

Huggins, ,  454. 

Hughes,  Alice,  234. 

Lt.  Samuel,  92. 

Samuel  J.,  612. 
Hull,  Johii,  574. 

William,  520. 
Humane  society,  Merrimack,  130. 
Humphries,  William  T.,  180. 
Hunnewell,  Daniel,  31. 

Richard,  90,  98. 
Hunniford,  William,  96. 
Hunt,  Albert  F.,  613. 

Anne,  580. 

^Irs.  Betsey,  564. 


Hunt,  Serg.  Charles,  523. 

Elias,  564. 

Leigh,  338. 

Nathaniel,  33,  104. 

Capt.  William  I.,  20. 
Huntington,  Asahel,  549. 

Lady  Selina,  448,  451. 

William,  no. 
Huntoon,  Jonathan,  100. 
Huntress,  George,  96-98. 
Hurd,  Dr.  Edward  P.,  178,  309. 

D.  Hamilton,  328,  331. 

Nathaniel  W.,  604. 

Dr.  Randolph  C,  310. 
Huse,  Arthur  L.,  24. 

John,  71,  518,  521,  602. 

Joseph,  598. 

Mrs.  Mary  S.,  591. 

Ralph  C,  604,  605. 

Samuel,  246,  563. 

Sarah,  241. 

Thomas,  287,  603,  6n. 

William   H.,    177,    328,    502,    605, 
606,  609. 
Huse  &  Bragdon,  501,  502. 
Huse,  William  H.,  &  Co.,   182. 
Husey,  John,  88. 
Hutchiiigs,  George,  20. 
Hutchinson,  Thomas,    192. 
Hutchinson  &  Crosby,  326. 

ICE,  533. 

*     Ilsley,  Isaiah,  no,  112. 

Stephen,  178,  493. 

Wade,  527. 

William,  131. 
Ilsley  house,  128. 
Immanuel  church,  317. 
Independence  (privateer),  29,  507. 
Independence,  American,  n7. 
Independent  street,  151,  152. 
India  wharf,  Boston,  398,  512. 
Indian  hill,  329,  330. 

farm,  466. 
Indians,  loi,  215,  362. 

Eastern,  loi. 
"Infuriated  Despondency,"  372-375. 
Ingalls,  Rebecca,  283. 

Ruth,  399. 
Ingersol,  Dorothy,  210. 

Joseph,  128. 
Inn  street,  149,  236,  591. 
Inness,  George,  355. 
Innholders,  351,  454,  455,  5n. 
Insane  asylum,  445. 
Insane,  Massachusetts  General  Hospi- 
tal for  the,  131. 
Inscription  on  bell,  150. 


646 


INDEX 


Inscription  on  obelisk,  450. 

on  tankard,   243,  244. 
Inscriptions,  19,   150,    199,   202,   210, 
219,  237,  243,  244,260,285,288, 
290,  428,  450,  464.  512,  513. 
on  gravestones,  199,  202,  210,  219, 

428,  464,  583-589- 

Institution  for  Savings  in  Newburyport 
and  its  Vicinity,  127,  169,  252, 
413,  417,   474- 

Insurance,  155. 

companies,  156-163,  304. 
underwriter,  473. 

Insurance  Company,  Newburyport  Ma- 
rine, 156. 

International  Exchange,  465,  466. 
law,  484. 

International  Power  Company,  42. 

Intrepid  (ship),  250. 

Inventors,  360,  368-371. 

Ipsw  ch,  Mass.,  14,  24,  80,  81,  92, 
129,  227,  250,  260,  288,  360,  407, 
415,  439,  440,  445,  447,468,  493- 

495,  497,  498,  508,  555,  556,  577, 
578,581,582. 

court,  580,  581. 

lighthouse,  23,  27. 

river,  16. 
Ireland,  Bijnamin  P.,  611-613. 

bhadrach,  88. 
Ireland,  202,  216,  218,  407,  445,  463, 

496,  576. 
Bank  of,  368. 
Coast  of,  357. 

Irvington,  N.  Y.,  268. 

Isabella  (schooner),  205,  206. 

Isle  of  Sable,  379. 

Isles  of  Shoals,  69,  80,  81,  547,  548. 

TACKMAN,  Charles  H.,  179. 
»J     George  W.,  jr.,  604-607. 

Joseph,  274. 

Richard,  93. 

Samuel,  527,  528. 

Stephen,  jr.,  70. 
Jackson,  Abraham,  29,  65. 

Mrs.  Amelia,  403,  404. 

Andrew,  274,  317,  442. 

Charles,    48,    116,    125,    164,    269, 
401-404. 

Mrs.  Dorothy,  220. 

Edward,  220. 

Mrs.  Frances,  404. 

Hannah,  244,  245,  269,  403,  463. 

Henry,  244,  518,  523. 

James,  105,  221,  245,  404. 

Jonathan,  89,  97,  99,  220,  221,  227, 
244,  245,  269,403,433,  467,  491. 


Jackson,  Michael,  92. 
Nathaniel,  601. 

Patrick  Tracy,  244,  245. 

Pomp,  97,  99. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  220. 
Jackson,  Dr.  James,  Memoirs  of,  221. 
Jackson,  Tracy  &  Tracy,  220,  228. 
Jackson's  wharf,  68. 
Jackson,  Me.,  264. 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  76. 
Jacoby,  Joseph  L.,  612. 
Jail,  Newburyport,  276. 
Jamaica,  L.  I.,  266. 
Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  317,  551. 
James,  Charles  T. ,  151. 

Mrs.  EHzabeth,  456. 
James  (ship),  56. 
James  Steam  Mills,  68,  151. 
Jamson,  Jno.,  96. 
Jaques,  Anna,   137,  144. 

Deborah,  505-507. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  505. 

Joseph,  112. 

Parker,   112. 

Richard,  505. 
Jarvis,  Charles,  91,  94,  97,  98. 
Jefferson,  Thomas,  230,  292,  422. 
Jenkins,  Ann,   267,  544. 

Mrs.  Betsey,  235. 

EHzabeth,  133,  212,  540. 

Frances,  203,  212,  544. 

George,  235,  600. 

Henrietta,  540. 

Joseph  Marion,  196. 

Lewis,  189,  192,  196,  197. 

Lydia  Ann,  540. 

Mary,  540. 

Mary  Dalton,  197. 

Mary  Jane,  540. 

Mrs.  Michal,  212,  213. 

Mrs.  Rebeckah,   189,  192,  196. 

Rebecca  Hooper,  196. 

Robert,   161,    167,    212,    213,  471, 
540, 

Robert  Dalton,  196. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  196,  197. 

Sarah,  212,  540. 

Lt.  Stephen,  92. 

William,  262. 
lennison,  William,  jr.,  517. 
Jerusalem,  478,  480,  512,  513. 
Jetties,  79,  80. 
Jetty  (steam-tug),  80. 
Jewett,  Mr.,  5S2. 

Paul,  496. 
John  E.  Sanford  (schooner),  24. 
Johnson,  Abel,  521,  554. 

Abigail,  241. 


INDEX 


647 


Johnson,  Andrew,  328. 
Mrs.  Anne,  244. 
Benjamin,  15. 
Benjamin  G.,  520. 
Catharine,  242. 
Charles  F.,  145,  310. 
Charles  W.,  610,  611. 
Clara  A.,  244. 
Daniel,  33,  473. 
Mrs.  Dolly,  242. 
Eleazer,  31,  in,  117,  122,  123,  161, 

167,  241-243,306,  511,521,590, 

600, 
Elizabeth,   215,  241-243,  253,  306. 
Mrs.  Fanny,  242,  306. 
Rev.  George  D.,  536. 
Serg.  Green,  525. 
Hannah,  242,  408. 
Mrs.  Hannah  K.,  361,  362. 
Hannah  Kenny,  471,  473. 
Harrison,  420. 

Harrison  G,,  287,  362,  473,  607. 
Harrison  Gray  Otis,  362. 
Mrs.  Henrietta,  242. 
Henry,    161,    167,    215,    553,    554, 

601-603. 
Isaac,  32,  103,  208,  209,  241. 
Jane,  242. 
John  Bayley,  242. 
Dr.  Jonathan,  309. 
Serg.  Jonathan  G.,  521. 
Jonathan  Greenleaf,  242,  306. 
Joseph,  20,  58,  241,  242. 
Lydia,  210,  21 1,  241. 
Martha,  210,  241,  242. 
Mary,  241,  242,  275,  360,  553,  554. 
Mrs.  Mary  Anthony,  215. 
Mary  Perkins,  591. 
Mrs.  Miriam,  244. 
Moses,  241. 
Nathaniel,  95. 
Nicholas,  29,  48,  129.  147,  157,  164, 

241,  242,  253,  275,  360, 361, 553, 

554,  592-595>  599.  600. 
Philip,  43,  no,  n7,  151,  161,  242- 

244,  521,  603. 
Richard,  590. 
Samuel  O.,  471. 
Sarah,  210,  241,  242,  244,  306. 
Thomas,  241,  520. 
WiUiam,  33.  210,  234,  241,  242. 
William  A.,  608. 
William  P.,  29,  31,   157,   521,  598, 

599- 

William  Pierce,  210,  242,  243,  306. 

William  R.,  131,  609. 
Johnson  street,  62,  63. 
Johnston,  Mrs.  Abigail,  109. 


Johnston,  Gen.  Albert  Sidney,  109. 

Dr.  John,  109. 

Col.  William  Preston,  109. 
Johnstone,  Ilepsibah,  326. 
Jones,  Anthony  S.,   533. 

Catherine,  226,  545. 

David,  234. 

Ephraim,  468. 

Hannah,  137. 

Hannah  H.,  142. 

Capt.  John,  262. 

John  Paul,  229,  506,  507,  512,  531. 

Mrs.  Martha,  262. 

Nathaniel  N.,  92,  225,  287. 

Sarah,  266,  468. 
Josie  M.  (steamboat),  81. 

I^AMES,  13. 

A*-     Kasan,  University  of,  341. 

Kavan,  James,  103. 

Keene,  N.  H.,  339. 

Keese,  John,  323. 

Kelby,  John,  583. 

Kelleher,  John  J.,  613. 

Keller,    182,  183. 

Kelley  (Kelly)  : 

Charles  P.,  612,  613. 

Elbridge  G.,  430,  431,  606. 

John,  583. 
Kelly  schoolhouse,  230,  257,  447,568. 
Kemp,  Amos,  105. 
Kennebunk,  Me.,  23. 
Kennebunkport,  Me.,  79. 
Kenney,  John,  99. 
Kenniston,  Jonathan,  60S. 

Laban,  276. 

Levi,  276. 
Kent,  Benjamin,   516,  525. 

Elizabeth,  288. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  200. 

Henry,  527. 

Mariner,   35. 

Mary,  266,  468. 

Moses,  37,  88,  92. 

Richard,  32,  200. 

Sarah,  200,  201,  267. 

Stephen,  97,  98. 
Kent  street,  31,  37,  64,  153,  257,  296, 

298,  336,  446. 
Keough,  Robert  P".,  81. 
Kervins,  James,  104. 
Kettle,  James,   234. 
Kettle  hole,  14. 
Kilborn,  Constable,  46. 

George,  jr.,  525. 

Jedediah,  526. 

Corp.  John,  90. 

Robert,  526. 


648 


INDEX 


Kilham,  Doctor,  263. 

Daniel,  301,  302. 

Elizabeth  D.,  398. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  301. 

Jeremiah,  398. 
Killingworth,  Conn.,  578. 
Kilpatrick,  Captain,  22, 
Kimball,  Betsey,  334,  410. 

Caleb,  93,  no,  563. 

John,  251. 

Mrs.  Lucy,  131. 

Marcia  D.,  389. 

Moody,  494,  610,  611. 

Moses,  169,  173,  516. 

Sumner  I.,  22, 

William,  147,  524. 
KimbalPs  island,  75. 
King,  Mrs.  Isabella,  266. 

John,  98. 

Richard,  266,  467. 

Rufus,  119,  262,  266,  422,  467. 
Wooden  statue  of,  422. 

Mrs.  Sibbella,  467. 

Thomas  Starr,  175. 
King   Cyrus   Chapter   of    Royal    Arch 

Masons,  124. 
King's  privy  council,  570. 
King  street,  208,  223,  234,  396,  495. 
King  wharf,  208. 
Kingman,  Ezra,  311. 

Hannah,  311. 

Mrs.  Susanna,  311. 
Kinney,  Abijah,  98. 

John,  97. 
Kinsman,  Dr.  Aaron,  282. 

Clara,  63. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  282. 

Henry  W.,  63,  287,  493. 

Henry  Willis,  282. 

Louisa  II.,  63. 

Mrs.  Martha  Frothingham,  282. 

Mary  McKinstry,  63. 

Mrs.  Nancy,  282. 
Kitson,  Henry  Hudson,  401. 

Mrs.  Theo  Alice,  401. 
Kittell,  James,  156. 
Kittery,  Me.,  284. 
Kitty  Boynton  (steamboat),  75. 
Kloot,  William,  519,  520,  522,  526. 
Knapp,  Captain,   124. 

Anthony,    1 1 1,  601, 

Cynthia,  63. 

Elizabeth,  370. 

Isaac,  28,  30,  93,  III,  275. 

Jacob,  525. 

Capt.  James  O.,  503,  615. 

Joseph,  168,  518,  520,  522. 

Mrs.  Lydia,  211. 


Knapp,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann,  275. 

Nathaniel,  28,  30,  124,  125,  147. 

Samuel,  516. 

Samuel  L.,  136. 

Samuel  Lorenzo,  275. 

Mrs.  Susanna,   275. 

William,  90,  112,  211,  250. 
Knight,  Amos,  33,  526. 

Mrs.  Ann,  310,  565. 

Anne,  155. 

Anne  C,  139. 

Antonio,  439  445,  500,  555. 

Benjamin,  33,  21 1 

Charles,  565. 

Serg.  Daniel,  93. 

Eben  C,  179,  611. 

Edmund,  562, 

Elizabeth,  439,  440,  445,  505. 

Frederick,  310,  439-441. 

Dr.  Frederick  Irving,  310,  616. 

Hale,  37. 

Hannah  W.,  445. 

Henry  Cogswell,  439-441. 

Jacob,  607. 

James,  112. 

John,  91,  94,  97,  98,  298. 

Joseph,  156,  439,  440,  555. 

Mrs.  Louisa  Armistead,  310. 

Lucy,  543. 

Mrs.  Martha,  211. 

Mrs.  Mary,  439,  555. 

Rebecca,  591. 

Sarah,  511. 

Winchester,  516. 
Knight  Templars,  124,  125,  294. 

Grand    Encampment    of    Alassachu- 
setts  and  Rhode  Island,  125. 

Newburyport  Commandery  of,  124. 
Knobb's  beach,  21,  25. 

Life-saving  station,  21. 
Krell,  Mrs.  Maria  Augusta,  140. 

LABENTA,  Andrew,  103. 
Lacaillade,  Dr.  James  O.,  310, 
Lacon  (schooner),  22. 
Ladd,  Nathaniel,  no. 
Persis  Matilda,  328. 
Thomas,  518. 
Ladies'  Bethel  society,  142,  143. 
Ladies      General    Charitable    society, 

384. 
Lady  Franklin  Bay  expedition,  343,344. 
LaFayette,  General,  58,  n4,  117,  247, 
272,  277,  416,  462,  531. 
Reception  of,  247. 
Laird,  Robert,  Brewery  of,  533. 
Lake,  David,  525. 
Sarah,  385. 


INDEX 


649 


Lake  Champlain,  95. 

George,  95,  499, 

Ontario,  211. 
Lamb,  Charles,  336,  338. 
Lambard,  Charlotte  Louisa,  258. 
Lambert,  Jonathan,  no. 

William,  89. 
Lambinet,  Emile,  354. 
Lamson,  Caleb,  92,  287. 
Lancaster,  Mass.,  312,  560. 
Landais,  Capt.  Pierre,  531. 
Lander,  Emma,  179. 
Landlord,  Hiram  H.,   613. 
Lane,  Benjamin  L,   171. 

Fraisalette  Cutler,  553. 

Capt.  Francis,   553. 

Isaac  W.,   180. 

Richard  J.,  370. 
Lanes,  14,  15,  31.  63. 
Lang,  Annie  Moseley,  304. 

Harriet,  319. 
Lascomb,  Mrs.  Betty,    211,   233,   238, 

239- 

Mary,  234. 

Robert,  211,  233,  234,  293. 
Laskey,  J  as.,  526. 

Joseph,  518,  519,  522. 
Latin  classics,  455. 

grammar  school,  311. 

high  school,  407. 
Lattimore,  Nicholas,  525. 
Laughton,  Elizabeth,   202,  203. 

Joseph,  203. 
Launchings,   70,  73,  293,  594. 
Laura  Marion  (steamboat),  25. 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  41,  71,   75,  76,  80, 

271,  281,  480,  550,  552. 
Lawrence  (steamboat),  70-72,  81. 
Laws,  Codification  of,  571,  572. 

of  colony,  504. 

Revision  of,  573-576, 
Lawson,  Mrs.  Catherine,  352. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  352. 

Mrs.  Frances,  352. 

Frances  Ellen,  352. 

Lilla,  352,  353. 

Thomas  B.,  476. 

Thomas  Bayley,  352,  353. 

Walter  U.,  352. 

William,  352,  525. 

Lawyers,  61,  92,    135,    163,    2155-287, 

311,  322,  327,400,401,  403,  404, 

430,  434,  440,  441,461,  463,467, 

468,  476,477,480,481,485,513, 

555,  558,  559- 
Leach,  Captain,  19. 
Leader  (brig),  252. 
Leathers,  Joseph,  262,  263. 


Leathers,  Mrs.  Martha,   262,  263,  301. 

Sarah,  263. 
Leavitt,  Mrs.  Hannah,  375. 

Thomas,  375. 
Le  Breton,  Anthony,  214. 

Caroline  Lewis,  215. 

Edmund  L.,  149. 

Edmund  Lewis,  215. 

Edward  L.,  174. 

Eliza,  215. 

Elizabeth,  215,  556. 

George  VVashington,  215, 

Mrs.  Lucy  O.,  215. 

Mrs.  Mary,  214. 

Mary  Anthony,  215. 

Peter,  29,  147,  170,  214,  215,  307. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Allen,  215. 

Stephen,  214,  215. 

Mrs.  Tabitha,  215. 
Lechford,  Thomas,  255,  256. 
Lectures,    174,    175,    177,    178,    277, 

318,  326,  328,  340,  415,  556. 
Lee,  Amelia,  403,  404. 

George  Gardner,   292. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Farnham,  292. 

John,  147. 

Joseph,  195,  403. 
Leicester,  Mass.,  463. 
Leigh,  Robert,  516. 
Leighton,  Mrs.  Caroline  Gushing,  338. 

Rufus,  338. 
Lennon,  Elizabeth,  352. 
Leonard,  Mrs.  Charlotte,  232. 

Evelyn,  232. 

George  W.,  232. 

Mrs.  Lydia,  296. 

Mrs.  Susanna,  296. 

Dr.  William  Bouchier,  295-297. 
Leonidas  Fire  society,  31,  32. 
Leopard  (iron  collier),  78. 
Lesley,  Edward  S.,  151,  153,  171. 
Letters,    86,  106,  107,  222,  247,  251, 
263,  346,  432,  440,  469,  482,  592, 

594,  595- 

of  marque,   222,  247,  251. 
British,   247. 

of  George  Washington,  106,  107. 
Leverett,  Capt.  John,  574. 
Levesque,  Rev.  J.  L.  M.,  235. 
Levy,  Samson,  606. 
Lewis,  Alonzo,  501. 

Harriet,  344. 

James  D.,  61 1. 

Joseph  S.,  376. 

Tabitha,  215. 

William,  94,  97. 
Lewis,  J.  W.,  &  Co.,  328. 
Lewiston  (steamboat),  81. 


650 


INDEX 


Lexington,  Mass.,  230,  243,  399. 

Va.,  109. 
Lexington,  Battle  of,  86,  361. 
Libl^ey,  John,  no. 

Theodore,  516. 
Liberator,  The,  317. 
Liberty  street,  35,  174,  214,  336,  566. 
Libraries,     131,    172,    173,     175-180, 

293^  334.  465.  466,  497- 
Library,  Haverhill,  Catalogue  of,  497. 
Newburyport  Athenaeum,    172,  173. 
Public,   131,  334. 
"  Life  in  a  New  England  Town,"  265, 

301. 
Life  saving  stations,  17,  21,  23-26. 
Lighthouse,  Ipswich,  23,  27. 

rium  island,  23. 
Lighthouse  point,  16,  18,  19,  21,  25. 
Lighthouses   on    Plum  island,    16,   17, 

23,  27,  564. 
Lime  street,  35,   52,    133,    211,    212, 
223,  224,251,  348,  381,  392,  450, 

451,  564- 
Lincoln,  George  C,  389. 

Leontine,   152. 
Lindsey,  James,  94, 

John,  98. 

Susanna,  296. 
Linnean  Society,  Newburyport,   173. 
Litchfield,  Conn.,  278,  279,  440. 
Lithoid  Manufacturing  Co.,  44. 
Little,  Mr.,  458,  459. 

Dr.  Abby  Noyes,  310. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  88. 

AHce,  304. 

Amos,  112, 

Ebenezer,  597. 

Edward,    270,  280,  287,  471,  499, 
600. 

Edward  H.,  169,  372,  432. 

Mrs.   Elizabeth,  295. 

Lt.  George,  527. 

Hannah,  405. 

Henry  B.,  81,  131,  167. 

Mrs.  Henry  B.,  208. 

Henry  W.,  615. 

Jacob,  417. 

Mrs.  Jane,  295. 

Joseph,   100. 

Joshua,  III,  167. 

Josiah,  176,  270,  402-404,  416,471, 

493- 
Mary,  213,  214,  467. 
Michael,  iii,  537. 
Moses,  87,  88,  91,  92,  in,  264,  295, 

361,  399.511.  598. 
Nathaniel,  112. 
Richard,  264,  295. 


Little,  Mrs.  Sarah,  270,  402. 

Mrs.  Sophronia,  402,  403. 

Tristram,  213. 

William,  178,  179. 
Little,  Edward,  &  Co.,  379. 
Little,  Moses,  Residence  of,  87,  88. 
Little  Falls,  N.  Y.,  317. 
Little  river,  14. 
Little  Rock,  Ark.,  321,  322. 
Littlefield,  Ens.  William,  92. 
Livermore,  Ann  Grace,  476. 

Arthur  Brown,  476. 

Edward  St.  Loe,  61,  62,67,  68,  251, 
262,  271,  287,  404,  476,  477,  480. 

Elizabeth  Brown,  476. 

George  Williamson,  476. 

Grace  Ann,  476. 

Harriet,  477,  480. 

Mrs.  Jane,  271,  476. 

Mrs.  Mehitable,  476,  477. 

Samuel,  271,  476. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Greene,  476. 

William  Stackpole,  476. 
Livesey,  Rev.  R.,  229. 
Livingston,  Alexander,  526. 
Lizzie  H.  Haskell  (schooner),  23. 
Lloyd,  Fanny,   315, 
Lock's  hotel,  405. 
Locks  and  canals  on  Merrimack  river, 

245. 
Logan,  Hon.  Alexander,  331, 
Lombard,  Allen,  232. 

Charles,  232. 

Charlotte,  232. 

Sibyl,  232. 
Lombard  (schooner),  17. 
London,  Eng.,  32,  256,  295,310,  325, 
351,  356,  359,  368,  372, 393, 406, 
407,  417,  446,448,  461,  465,  495- 
Londonderry,  N.  H.,  195,  436,  463. 
Long,  Mrs.  Anna  Matilda,  451. 

Caroline,  550. 

Charles,  31. 

Rev.  Joseph  Augustus  Edwin,  451. 

Longacre,  ,  368. 

Long  Button,  583. 
Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  92. 

Battle  of,  91. 
Long  wharf,  Boston,  409. 
Lopans,  Captain,  20. 
Lord,  Elizabeth,  419. 

Mrs.  Frances  Maria,  305,  558. 

Lt.  James,  88,  92. 

Lynde,   278. 

Mrs.  Mary,  278. 

Mary  Shildon,  278. 
L'Orient,  France,  250,  506,  531. 
Loring,  ,  536. 


INDEX 


651 


Loring,  Henry,  520. 

John  T.,  602. 

Richard,  no. 
Lougee,  Serg.  John,  90. 
Louisbourg,  Capture  of,   547' 
Louisiana,  109. 
Louisville,  Ky.,  219. 
Lovell,  General,  293. 
Loveting,  Richard,    no. 
Lovett,  Sirs.  Eliza  Ann,  335. 

Eliza  Jane,  335. 

Joseph,  526. 

William  IL,  335. 
Low,  Lt.  Ebenezer,  88. 
Low  street,  115. 
Lowell,  Ann,  564,  565. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  564. 

Francis  Cabot,  244,  246. 

James  Russell,    175. 

John,  89,  245,  261,    269,   348,  467, 

499,  565>  597.  598- 

Joseph,   527, 

Lewis,  564. 

Richard,  32,  91,  94,  98. 

Samuel,  91,  94,  98. 

Mrs.  Sarah,   261,  269. 

Mrs.  Susan,  245,  261. 

Sydney  Vale,  327, 
Lowell,  Mass.,  69,    70,    75,    80,  245, 

246,  303,  328,  352,  446,  477. 
Lower  Green,  13,  14,  178,  185. 
Lower  Long  wharf,  208,  209. 
Lowth,  Rev.  Robert,  D.  D.,  496. 
Loyalists,  189,  190,  192,  195,  197,  25S. 
Lucy  ^L  Collins  (schooner),  24. 
Ludlow,  Captain,  23. 
Lufkin,  Caleb,  525. 

Lt.  David,  525. 
Luke  Hoyt  (steam-tug),  78,  79. 
Lundy,  Benjamin,  317. 
Lunt,  ,  75. 

Abel,  228,  280,  281,  513,  555. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  513. 

Abner,  250,  507,  508. 

Abraham,  509. 

Mrs,  Adelaide,  513. 

Anne,  503-505,  508-510. 

Benjamin,  209,  505,  507. 

Charles,  83,  145,  418. 

Cutting,  505-507. 

Daniel,     na,     503-505,  507,   509- 

5ii>  513- 
Deborah,  505-507. 
Edmund  Coffin,  509. 
Edmund  Sydney,  62,  252,  509. 
EHza  Ann,  280,  555. 
Elizabeth,    503,  504,  506,  510,  561. 
Elkanah,  505. 


Lunt,  Mrs.  Emily,  513. 
Eunice,  505. 
Ezra,  86,  88,  92,  99,  506,  510,  561, 

602. 
George,  175,    228,    281,    493,  501, 

508,  513. 
Hannah,  504,  505,  507,  50b. 
Hannah  Giddings,  508. 
Mrs.  Hannah  Gyles,  251,  509. 
Mrs.  Harriet,  506,  507. 
Henry,    29,  56,  293,   503-505,    507- 

513.  572. 
Jacob,  508. 
Jacob  William,  509, 
James,  510. 
Jane,  509-511,  561. 
Capt.  Jeremiah,  70. 
Mrs.  Joanna,  505. 
John,  503-505,  509. 
Johnson,  507. 

Joseph,  505,  506,  513,  520. 
Josiah,  513. 
Lois,  505. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  506. 
Mrs.  Martha,  505. 
Mary,  503-505,  507-5'o,  513,  561. 
Mary  Coffin,  62,  252,  508,  509. 
Mrs.  Mary  Green,  512. 
Mrs.  Mary  Johnson,  509. 
Matthew,  510,  511,  561. 
Mehitable,  505. 
Micajah,  62,  70,   72,   162,   250-252, 

416,  493,  508,  509, 523- 
Miriam,  250,  508. 
Moses,  510. 
Nathaniel,  505. 
Paul,  88,  112,   i;o6,  507,   561,  605, 

606. 
Mrs.  Phebe,  281,  513. 
Philip  H.,  178,  179. 
Priscilla,  503,  504. 
Richard,    n2,  506,  507. 
Samuel,  510,  526. 
Samuel  Allen,  513. 
Sarah,  250,  251,  503-512. 
Mrs.  Sarah  B.,  251,  509. 
Sarah  Giddings,  509. 
Sarah  Lord,   50S. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Miles,  513. 
Silas,  506. 
Skipper,  509. 
Susan  Maria,  508. 
Sydney  William,   509. 
Thomas,  no. 
William,  508,  509. 
Rev.  William  Parsons,  D.  D.,    512, 

5'3- 
William  Pike,  51. 


652 


INDEX 


Lunt,  Paul,  Diary  of,  506. 
Lunt  &  Leach,  512. 
Lunt  &  Tinges,  511. 
Lunt's  hill,  515. 
Lyceum  association,  175. 

hall,  174. 

Newburyport,  174. 
Lyman,  Mary,  278. 
Lynde,  Benjamin,  256. 
Lynn,  Mass.,  345,  346,  551. 

MACE,  John,  524. 
Corp.  Joshua,  527,  528. 

Reuben,    58. 
Machias,  Me.,  99,  221,  362,  363. 
Machias  Liberty  (  sloop),  221. 
Mackintosh,  Hiram  P.,  40. 
MacKinney,  Thomas,   608, 
Maddock,  Thomas  J.,  21,  539. 
Madison  street,  43. 
Madison,  Ind.,  232. 

Wis.,  28. 
Magee,  Peter,  96. 
Maine,  261,  274,  286,   344,   368,  402, 

462. 
Maine  Wesleyan  seminary,  327. 
Maiden,  Mass.,   380,  419,  428,  504. 
Mall,  The,    14. 

Improvement  association,  184. 
Malloon,  William,  105. 
Manchester,  Mass.,  494. 

N.  IL,  42. 
Manchester  Locomotive  Works,  42,  43. 
Manley,  Captain,  205, 
Mann,  Horace,  339. 

John,  104. 
Maplewood,  Mass.,  413. 
Mablehead,  Mass.,    189-192,    194-196, 

198,  201,  215,  219,  293,  382. 
March,  ,  497. 

Angier,  31,  497,  498. 

Mrs.  Caroline,   319. 

Ebenezer,  492. 

Rev.  John  C.,  175. 

Nathaniel,  516,  520,  522. 
March's  hill,  515. 
Marchant,  Dr.  Peter,   263. 

Mrs.  Sally,  263. 
Marden,  William,  519,  524,  526. 
Margaretta  (British  armed  cutter),  221, 
Marietta,  O.,  108,  296. 
Marine  P'ire  Society,  28. 
Marine  Insurance  Company,  Newbury- 
port, 156. 
Marine  Railway  Company,  Merrimack, 

154- 
Marine  Society  of  Newburyport,  128. 


Marion,  Joseph,  155. 
Market  hall,  174,  325. 
Market  house,  113,  420,591. 
Market  square,  31,  37,  38,  42,  43,  49, 
77,  113,  165,  166,  168,  2x3,  262, 
291,  295,  300,  301,  336,  372,  375, 
425,  433,  437.  442,  453,  45^,  496- 
499>  533,  552,  566,  591. 
Market  street,  31,  32,  34,   36,   37,   54, 
62,  121,  146,  199,  213,  21S,  219, 
229,  230,  237,  238, 297,  301,  314, 
334,  358,  408,  447,  566,  568. 
Marlborough  street,  11 2,  128,  180,  194 

314,  327,  32S,  350,  386. 
Marquand,  Ann,  24O. 

Charles,  240. 

Daniel,  239,  240. 

Elizabeth  Coffin,  240. 

Joseph,  32,  239,  240,  556. 

Lemuel,  74,  77,  81,  155. 

Mary,  239,  240. 

Michal,  212,  213. 

Rebecca,  133,  239,  240,  556. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  556. 

Susan  Coffin,  194,  278. 

Susanna  Coffin,  240. 
Marrs,  Evangeline,  398. 
Marsh,  Rev.  Christopher  Bridge,    459. 

Jacob,  105. 

Jonathan,   598. 

Mary,  233. 

Nathaniel,  31. 
Marshall,  Captain,  23. 
Marston,  Mrs.  Mary,  414. 

Mrs.  Mary  Jane,  540. 

Peter,  280. 

Mrs.  Rebecca,  280. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  438. 

Stephen  W.,  32,  149,  165,  166, 
274,  280,  287,  382,  414,  417,  418, 
540,  600,  601. 

Stephen  Webster,  414. 

William  A.,   287. 
Martha  (brig),   225. 
Martin,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,   263. 
Mary  and  John  (ship),  503. 
Mary  Ann  (ship),  204. 
Mary  G.  Powers  (schooner),  25. 
Marysvilie,  Cal.,  71,  351. 
Masconomet  mills,  42,  151. 
Mason,  Sergeant,  517. 

John,  98. 

Prof.  Lowell,  181. 

Robert,  562. 

Samuel,  517. 

WiUiam,  518,  519. 
Masonic  organizations,  322. 


INDEX 


6S3 


Massachusetts,  209,  214,  220,  256, 
261,  269,  271, 272,  279,  281,  284, 
286,  287, 293, 309,  3 10,  329, 338, 

344.  345.  354,  3^'2,  368,  404.  419, 
46c,  467,  471,473,477,482,485, 
491,  514,  515,  563. 
Bay  Colony,  503,  504,  572,  574,  577. 
Bay  Province,  577. 
Governor  of,  471. 
Massachusetts   Constitutional    conven- 
tion, 261. 
Massachusects  General  Hospital,  310. 

association,  269. 
Massachusetts    General    Hospital     for 

the  Insane,   131. 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society,   507. 
Massachusetts  infantry,  345. 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 

395- 
Massachusetts  Medical  college,   367. 
Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  307. 
Massachusetts  militia,  272,  485. 
Massachusetts  senate,  469. 
Massasoit  (steamboat),  80. 
Massey,  Charles,   219. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  219. 
Mather,  Cotton,  567. 
Matignon,  Rev.  Francis  Anthony,  276. 
Matrosses,  93,  loi,  102. 
Matthew's  cove,  Island  of  Grand  Ma- 
nan,  354. 
Mattie  Sargent  (steam-tug),  74. 
Maud  (steamboat),  75. 
^Maverick  church,  320. 
May,  Rev.  Joseph,  332,  348,  591. 

Rev.  Samuel  J.,  591. 
May  Queen  (steamboat),  73,  76. 
McBurnie,  Edith  M.,  180. 
McClenlick,  William,  97,  99. 
McCobb,  Col.  .Samuel.  96. 
McCrelles,  Reuben,  527. 
McCusker,  John  E.,  81,  312. 
McDonald,  James,  93. 
McFarland,  James,  105. 

William,  105. 
McGaw,  Mrs.  Hannah,  463. 

John,  463. 

Thornton,  463. 
McHard,  Joseph,  in. 

Capt.  William,  297. 
Mclntire,  Sarah  Justice,  565. 
McKeen,  James,  99. 
McKinney,  Thomas,  72. 
McKinnon,  John  H.,  81. 
McKnight,  Robert,  104. 
McMan,  John,  99. 
McNall,  Capt.  Joseph,  96. 
McNeil,  George  E.,  340. 


McNeil,  Capt.  Hector,  204-206. 

Mary,  192. 
McPharson,  Paul,  105. 
McQuillen,  William  E  ,  78. 
Mechanic  (steamboat),   69. 
Mechanic  Library  association,  177. 
Mechanick    association,    Newburyport, 

134- 
Mechanicks  Bank,   167,  169-171,  413, 

550. 
Medford,  Mass.,  90,  175,  279,  564. 
Meeting-house,    Rev.    Mr.    Andrews', 
122,  219. 
Rev.  Mr.  Gary's,  113,290. 
Dr.  Dana's,   174. 
federal  street,  174,  450. 
of  First  Religious  Society,  123,  299, 

406,  430.  487- 
on  High  street,  457. 
in  Maiden,  428. 
Methodist,  174.. 
Rev.  Mr.  Moore's,  386. 
on  Prospect  street,  436,  44S,  449. 
in  Rowley,  581,  582. 
South,  in  Peabody,   407. 
Third  Parish,  291. 
Meeting-houses,  18,  19,  37,41,49,50, 
54,  113,  122,  123,  135,  136,  174, 
181,  219,  276,  278,  290,  291,  299, 
325,  386,  406,  407,  428, 430.  436, 
448-450,  457,  460,  487,  581,582. 
Meigs,  Rev.  Benjamin  C,  532. 
Melcher,  Hannah,  375. 
Mellowes,  Edward,   504. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  504. 
Meloon,  Josiah,  104. 
Melrose,  Mass.,  336-338. 
Members  of  congress,  467-476. 
Memphis,  Term.,  322. 
Memphis  Appeal,  322. 
Men,  Newburyport  Society  for  the  Re- 
lief of  Aged,  141. 
Merchants,  15,  60,  64,   92,    155,    160, 
189,  199,  200,  202,  208,  212,  216, 
220,  225,  246-248,  250,  253,  298, 
385.  397. 404,  406,  408,  41 1,  413, 
460,  474,  508,  509,515,  553,  557. 
Merchants  Bank,   126,    127,   167,   168, 
170,  252-254. 
building,  126,  170,  176,  226. 
Merchants  Insurance  Company,  161. 
Merchants  Mutual  Insurance  Company, 

163. 
Merrill,  Colonel,   524,  525. 
Annis,  93,  105. 
Charles  R.,  137. 
Edna,  303. 
Ezekiel,  no. 


654 


n\DE.\ 


Merrill,  Henry,  iii,  6oi. 

Jacob,  III,  526. 

James,  319. 

Dr.  James  A.,  309. 

John,  94,  161,  162,    165,    166,   309. 
492,  526,  601. 

Jonathan,  97,  98. 

Mary,  385, 

Moses,  381,  382,  601,  602. 

Nancy,  407. 

Nathan,  in. 

Oliver  B.,  153,  298. 

Orlando  B.,  53,  63,  64. 

Paul,  134,  521. 

Paul  A.,  401. 

Robert,   134. 

William,  300. 

William  H.,  389. 
Merrimac,  Mass.,  494. 
Merrimac  (sloop-of-war),  297. 
Merrimac  (steamboat),  72,  73, 
Merrimac  Valley  Visitor,  328. 
Merrimack,  N.  H.,  463,  464. 
Merrimack  (ship),  212,  246. 
Merrimack  (ship-of-war),  592,  594. 
Merrimack  (sloop-of-war),  225. 
Merrimack  (steamboat),  69,  74,  76. 
Merrimack  Bank,  164. 
Merrimack  Bible  society,  134,  135. 
Merrimack  Coffee  house,  121. 
Merrimack  court,  198. 
Merrimack  Encampment,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
No.  7,  126,  127. 

of  Newburyport,    127, 
Merrimack  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance 

Company,  157. 
Merrimack  Humane  Society,    17,    128, 

129,  275,  276,  372,  499. 
Merrimack  Insurance  Company,    157, 

159,  160,  162. 
Merrimack  Library  association,  175. 
Merrimack  Marine  and  Fire  Insurance 

Company,  160. 
Merrimack  Marine  Railway  Company, 

154- 
Merrimack  river,   14-16,  70-72,  74-76, 

78-83,   130,   198,    210,  245,  254, 

408,462,  477,  503,  515,  529-531, 

570,  577,  581,  615. 

Steam  navigation  on,  69. 
Merrimack    River    Towing    company, 

78,  79- 

Merrimack  Steam  Navigation  compa- 
ny, 71. 

Merrimack  street,  31,  37,  41,  42,  53, 
54,  67,  68,  102,  122,  123,  126, 
154,  199,  227,  237,  238,  298,  308, 
382,408,419,420,446,  473,  496. 


Merrimack    Valley  Steamboat    compa- 
ny, 73,  74,  76,  77. 
Merritt,  Henry,  137. 
Merry's  Museum,  343. 
Metcalf,  N.  W.,  387. 
Methodist  meeting-house,  174. 
Methodist  Society,  Greenland,  N.  H., 

438. 
Methuen,  Mass.,  271,  307,  468,  480. 
Mexican  war,  322,  482. 
Michigan,  281,  411. 
Middle  street,  37,  38,   156,   215,  218, 
219,  233,  295, 307, 309.  348,  361, 
498. 
Middlesex  canal,  70. 
Middleton,  William,  518,  521. 
Middleton,  Mass.,  494. 
Middletown,  R.  I,,  319. 
Mighill,  Elizabeth,  473, 

Thomas,  581. 
Milbury,  Mass.,  343. 
Military  companies,  84-86.  88-90,  113. 
Militia,  272,  330,  485,  560. 
Milk  street,  212,  361,  448. 
Mill,  Curzon,  road,  13. 
Mill  prison,   221,  229,  506,  507,  51 1. 
Miller,  Mrs.  Hannah,  192. 

John,  192. 
Milliken,  Edward.  105. 

Seth  M.,  153. 
Mills,  Frances  Lord,  284. 

Levi,  30. 

Rev.  Samuel  J.,  532. 
Mills,  42,    no,   193,    235,    236,    245, 
246,  562. 

at  Pine  island,   562. 
Milnor,  Rev.  James,  351. 
Miltimore,  Rev.  James,  134. 
Milton,  Rev.  Mr.,  37. 

Anna,  450. 

Mis.  Anna,  450,  451. 

Anna  Matilda,  450,  451. 

Rev.  Charles  W.,  134,  436. 

Charles  William,  448-451. 

Lucretia  Hamsly,  450,  451. 

Mary  Ann,  450. 

Mary  Jane  Clarissa,  450,  451. 

Selina  Mary  Ann,  450,  451. 
Milton,  Mass.,  335. 
Miner,  Rev.  George  H.,  348. 
Minneapolis,  Mmn.,  42. 
Minneola  (steamboat),  8r. 
Minot,  Me.,  308. 
Minto,  James  D.,  81. 
Missionary  at  Isles  of  Shoals,  548, 
Mitchell,  John,  262. 

Joseph,   105, 

Martha,  262,  263. 


INDEX 


655 


Mitchell,  Ens.  Nathaniel,  92. 

William,  525. 
M.  L.  Wetherell  (schooner),  24. 
Mobile,  Ala.,  69. 
Mobile  (steamboat),  69. 
Mollenhauer,  Emil,  184. 
Monom:ck  (steam-tu^;),  79. 
Monrce,  President,  58,  117,  228,  247, 
350. 

James,  240. 
Monroe,  President,  Reception  of,   247. 
Monroe  street,  144,  153. 
Montgomery,  Dr.  tieorge,   309. 

Lt.  Nathaniel,  88,  92. 
Monument  on  Atkinson  common,    185. 

to  the  soldiers  and  sailors,  401. 
Monuments,   19,   185,   237,  401,  441, 

464. 
Moody,  Abigail,   211,  241,  303. 

Caleb,  III. 

Cutting,   45,  597. 

David,  597,  598. 

Edward  G.,  613. 

Elizabeth,  54. 

Enoch,  93. 

Hannah,  303,  304. 

Hannah  M.,  409. 

Henry  T. ,  606. 

Jane,  510,  511,  561. 

John,  112,  523. 

Jos.,  30. 

Joseph  Edward,  345. 

Mrs.  Martha,  409. 

Mrs.  Martha  Ann  Kimball,  303. 

Mary,  361,  504. 

Mary  C,  303. 

Mary  Little,  389. 

Paul,  93,  244,  245,  303. 

Rebecca,  223. 

Samuel,  112,  257,  504. 

Sarah,  207. 

Somerby,  32. 

Susan  Lydia,  303,  304. 

William,  602. 

William  H.,  303,  409. 

William  O.,  418. 
Moody's  lane,  473. 
Mooer,  William,    523. 
Mooney,  Amos  W.,  564,  606. 
Moore,  Rev.  Mr.,  386. 

Hamilton,  125. 

Ira  M.,  389. 
Moorfield,  Elizabeth,  92. 
Mootrey,  Joseph,  1 10. 
More,  Moses,  522. 
Mnreland,  Mrs.  Anne,  155. 

William,    119,  155,  298. 
Morgaridge,  John,  in. 


Morrill,  Frank  F.,  63. 
Henry,  563. 
Corp.  Jas.,  526. 
John,  jr.,  527. 
Morris,  John,  97,  99. 
Morrison,  Charles  P.,  181,  182. 
Henry,  518,  522. 
Thomas,  31,  525,  527,  528. 
Morse,  Rev.  Dr.,  548. 
Anthony, 448. 
Charles  Osgood,  177,  287. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  566. 
Dr.  Fred  O.,  310. 
Israel  A.,  610, 
Rev.  James,  134. 
Joseph,  566. 
Merrill,  518,  521. 
Peter,  524. 
Samuel  F.  B.,  307. 
Sidney  E.,  307. 
William,  566. 
Mors?,    James,    174,    175,    314,    348, 
442",  500,  541. 
Joseph  B.,  44,  171,  1 78,  606,  607. 
Mrs.  Josephine,  541. 
Morss,  Brewster  &:  Huse,  502. 
Morton,  Daniel,  518. 
Mrs.  Harriet,  197. 
James,  519. 
Moses,  517. 
Moseley,  Mrs.  Caroline  Louisa,  409. 
Charles  W,,   274. 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Augusta,  413, 
Ebenezer,  136,  147,  160,   170,    174, 
272-274,  279,  281,  287,401,  409, 
410,  413,  492,  600,  601. 
Edward  A.,  606. 
Edward  Strong,  162,  274,  401,  413, 

414,  416,  418. 
Frederick  S.,  83,  274. 
James,  97,  99. 
Jedediah,  307. 
Mrs.  Julia  Maria,  409. 
Lucy  Jones,  274,  409,  410. 
Mrs,  Martha,  272. 
Mary  Ann,  272,  274,  409,  410,  413. 
VVilHam  O.,  138,  144,  274,  409. 
Mrs.  William  O.,  45. 
Moseley  avenue,  186,  399,  401. 
Moses,  Serg.  William  S.,  517. 
Moulton,  E.,  130. 
George,  517. 
Henry  W.,  177. 
Henry  William,  344. 
John,  III, 
Jonathan,  517,  522, 
Joseph,  147,  598. 
Lydia,  296. 


6s6 


INDEX 


Moulton,  Nathan  A.,   417,  536,  537, 
606. 

Mrs.  Susan  Floyd,  344. 

Susan  Whittemore,  344. 

William,  296. 
Mouut  Rural,  56-5S,  304. 
Muir,  Elizabeth  Dame,  353. 
Mulliken,  Benjamin,  105. 

Hannah  Gyles,  251,  509. 

Jonathan,  196,  598. 

Samuel,  125,  165,  251,  509. 
MuUins,  John,   103. 

Murdock, ,  502. 

Murphy,  Elizabeth,  445. 
Murray, ,  5^4. 

George,  367,  368. 

John,  105,  348,  362,  448,  457-459. 
496,  587. 

Elder  Robert,  587. 

William,  104. 
Murray,  Draper,  Faiiman  &  Co.,   351, 

367. 
Murrill,  James,  525. 
Muse,  Margaret,  320. 
Museum,  Boston,  173. 
Music,  180-184,  230,  330,  334. 
Musical  festivals,  181,  182. 

societies,  180-184. 
Muzzey,  Rev.  A.  B.,  274. 

Rev.  Arttmas  Bowers,  410. 

Mrs.  John,  137. 

Lucy  J.,  137. 

Mrs.  Lucy  Jones,  274,  409,  410. 
Mycall,  John,    28,    35,    59,    60,    495, 
496,  599. 

NANCY  (schooner),   19. 
Nantasket  roads,  594. 
Nantucket,  Mass.,  351. 
Nantz,  France,  214,  251. 
Narragansett  country,  572. 
Narragansett  (steamboat),  72. 
Nason,  Dr.  Arthur  C,  44,  310. 

Mrs.  Arthur  C,  274. 

C,  502. 
Nason,  Bragdon  &  Co.,   502. 
Nashua,  N.  IL,  70,  80. 
National  Academy  of  Design,  351,  354, 

355- 
Naval  battle,  200. 

officers,  203,  205,  274. 

supplies,  531,  534. 
Navigation,  244. 

on  Merrimac  liver,  615. 

Steam,  69. 
Navy,  226,  295,  531,  592,  594,  596. 

Secretary  of  the,  594. 

English,  295. 


Nelson,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  473. 
Elizabeth  Mighill,  474. 
Jeremiah,  156,  157,  159,    161,    170, 

207,  473-476,  481,  600. 
John  B.,  474,  476. 

Mrs.  Mary,  44,  474,  481. 
Mary  Balch,  474. 
Mary  E.,  44. 
Oscar  II.,  287. 
Solomon,  473. 
Nesmith,    Henrietta   Crager    Hudson, 

343- 

John,  75. 

Mrs.  Marie  A.,  343. 

Thomas  L.,  343. 
Nevada  county,  Cal.,  283. 
Newark,  N.  J.,  413. 
New  Baltimore,  N.  Y.,  79. 
New  Bedford,  Mass.,    339,    340,   351, 

555- 

New  Brunswick,  73,  354,  356. 

Newbury,  Mass.,  13-15,  18,  27,  32,  36, 
41,  46,  49-51,  S3,  54,  56,  58,  60, 
61,  63,  86,  88-90,93,  95,  96,  102, 
112,  114,  115,  117,121,  125,  128- 
130,  137,  138,  144,  147,  148,  178- 
180,  185,  193,  198,  200,  201,  207, 

208,  210,  211,  213,  214, 216,  226, 
229,  233-235,  237,  238,  241,  244, 
250,  251,  257,  261,  262,  264,  265, 
267,  268,  270,  274,  277,  284,  2S5, 
288,  289,  291,  295,  297,  303,  304, 
308,  313,  314,  325,  327, 328,  340, 
343,  344,  348,  353,  355,  3^o,  361, 
363,  3S0,  385,  386,  397,  399,  402, 
405,  408,  415,  419,  431,  437,  438, 
451,456,457,461,467,  468,  471, 
473,477,  482,  491-49''',  498,  499, 
503,504,506,  515,  543,  545,  551, 
552,556,  558,  564,  565,567,570- 
572,  577,  578,  580,  616. 

Annexation  of  part  of,  to  Newbury- 

port,   115. 
Two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary 

exercises,  etc.,  340. 
town  house,  174. 
Newbury,  Vt.,  275,  304. 
Newburyport,  1-616. 
Area  of,  15. 

Incorporation  of,  15,  257. 
Population  of,  15. 
Newburyport  academy,  558. 
Newburyport  artillery    company,    100, 

109,  112,  117,  118,  267. 
Newburyport    Atheraum,     172,     173, 

177. 
Newburyport  Bank,  65,    66,    164-166, 
552. 


INDEX 


657 


Newburyport  Bethel  society,    18,  142, 

143- 

Newburyport,  Boston  and  Haverhill 
Steam  Boat  Company,  70. 

Newburyport  bridge,  148. 

Newburyport  Charitable  society,  413. 

Newburyport  Choral  Union,  183. 

Newburyport  Circulating  Library,  Cat- 
alogue of,  500. 

"Newburyport  in  the  Civil  War,"" 
"History  of,"   345. 

Newburyport  Commandery  of  Kmght 
Templars,  1 25. 

Newburyport  Co-operative  Bank,    171. 

Newbur)-port  Daily  Courier,  283. 

Newburyport  Daily  and  Semi-Weekly 
Herald,  281. 

Newburyport  Daily  Evening  l'nion,353. 

Newburyport  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company,  154. 

Newburyport  Encampment  of  Knight 
Templars,  125. 

Newburyport  Female  Charitable  socie- 
ty, 131-133- 

Newburyport  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank, 
171. 

Newburyport  Gas  and  Electric  Com- 
pany, 154. 

Newburyport  Health  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 163. 

Newburyport    Herald,    64,    315,    327, 

328,  353-  .  .    , 

Newburyport  Homreepathic    Hospital, 

145- 
Newburyport  Hosiery  Company,    147, 

148. 

Newburyport  Howard  Benevolent  so- 
ciety, 136,  137,  139. 

Newburyport  Insurance  Company,  161. 

Newburyport    Ladies    Bethel    society, 

143- 
Newburyport  Library  association,   176. 
Newburyport  life  saving  station,  21,25, 

27,  539- 

Newburyport  Linnean  society,  1 76. 
Newburyport  Lyceum,   174,   177,   183, 

415- 

Newburyport  Marine  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 156,  203. 

Newburyport  Marine  Insurance  society, 
160. 

Newburyport  Marine   society,    16,  17, 

28,  128,  213,  222,  223,  251,  252, 
381,  382,   564. 

Newburyport    Mechanick    association, 

134- 
Newburyport    Mutual    Fire    Insurance 
Company,  43,  160,  162,  474. 


Newburyport  Mutual  Fishing  Insurance 

Company,  160. 
Newburyport  and  Newbury   Mechanics 

association,  134. 
Newburyport  Oratorio  class,    182,  1S3. 
Newburyport  Phenix  Marine  and  Fire 

Insurance  Company,  158,  159. 
Newburyport  Silk  Company,  148. 
Newburyport  Society  for  the  Relief  of 

Aged  Females,  139,  140. 
Newburyport  Society  for  the  Relief  of 

Aged  Men,  141. 
Newburyport  Steam  Cotton  Company, 

148, 149. 
Newburyport    Woolen    Manufacturing 

Company,  146,  147. 
Newburyport  Young    Men's    Christian 

Association,   145. 
New  Dorp,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  354. 
Newell,  Mrs.  Jane,  242. 

Nathaniel,  242. 
New    England,    214,    295,    307,    314, 
326,  372,  408,  410,  556,  577. 
coast,  534. 
Council  for,  570. 
states,  330,  515, 
New  England  Worsted  Company,  398. 
Newf^eld,  N.  H.,  3S2. 
New  Gloucester,  Me.,  311. 
Newhall,  Andrew,  99. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  543. 
Mary,  313,  543. 
Samuel,  59,  113,  293,  543. 
New  Hampshire,  175,   261,  328,  344, 
368,  402,  460,  462-464,  476,  480. 
Governors  of,  292,  294. 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  86,  272,  430,  501 , 

590. 
New  Hill  burying    ground,    112,   240, 

■    312,  338,  480. 
New  Holderness,  N.  H  ,  196. 
New  Jersey,  77,  78,  361,  511. 
New  London,  Conn.,  71. 
Newman,  Benjamin,  88,  93,  519,  524, 
Elizabeth,  291,  565,  566. 
Jane,  291. 
Joanna,  291,  566. 
John,  288,  29T,  516,  565. 
Joseph,  29. 
Joshua,  291,  566. 
Judith,   291,  566. 
Mary,  291,  566. 
Payne,  291. 

Samuel,  31,  61,  93,  103,  160,  43S. 
Sarah,  252,  253. 
Susanna,  275. 

Timothy,  291,  566,  594-596. 
Wingate,  291. 


6s8 


INDEX 


Newmarch,  Joseph,  31. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  70,  109,  343,  345, 

463- 
Newport,  R.  I.,  456, 
New  Rowley,  Mass.,  550. 
Newspapers,    117,  121,  124,  176,  270, 

313.  315,  321-323,  327,  329,  353, 

362,  410. 
Newlon,  Jeremiah  L.,  176,  389. 
Newton,  Mass.,  391. 
New  York,  23,  24,  91,  103,    155,  264, 

266,  283,  292,  511,  541. 

New  Ycrk.N.Y.,  23,  70,  117,221,223, 

267,  268,  276,  277,  286,  304,  307, 
310,  317,  323,  325-327,  351-356, 
35^,361,  379.  392,  395^  399.  406, 
411,  417,418,461,463,  467,478, 
512,  534,  559- 

Nichols,  Humphrey,  105. 

James,  526. 

Mrs.  Mary,  451,  453. 

Mary  Caroline,  67. 

Samuel,  161,  167. 

William,  29,  66,  67,  247,  249,   250, 
303,  493,  507,  534,  602. 
Nineteenth  army  corps,  283,  485. 
Nixon,  Col.  John,  89. 
Noble,  Oliver,  91. 
Norfolk,  Conn.,  275. 

Va.,  351. 
Norfolk  (vessel),   596. 
Norris,  Caleb,  417. 

James,  104. 
North    Congregational    church,     142, 
146,  183,  320,  384,  500,  533. 

Meeting-house  of,  40,  460. 
"  North  End  Papers,'^  153,  298. 
North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  289,  290. 

Mteting-house  in,  290. 
Northend,  Enoch  T.,  607. 

Ezekiel,  581. 

Sarah,  288. 

Hon.  William  D.,  283,  487. 
Norton,  Amos,  1 10. 

Anne,  133. 

Bishop,   599. 

Daniel,  355. 

George,  112,  516. 

Joshua,  33. 

Mrs.  Mary,  355. 

Moses,  516. 

Richardson,  93. 

Mrs.  Sarah  D.,  356. 

Stephen,  525. 

William  B.,  525. 

William  Edward,  355-358. 
Norwich,  Conn.,  71. 
Notes  of  city  illegally  issued,  537. 


Nova  Scotia,  96. 

Nowell,  Increase,  572,  573. 

John,  33. 

Capt.  Moses,  86,  93,  94,   230,   243, 
361. 

Samuel,  32. 

Silas,  525. 
Noxon,  Laura  Ann,  395,  554. 
Noyes,  Captain,  124. 

Mr.,  452. 

Amos,   63,  112,  161,  167,  177,  287, 
416,  526,  601. 

Charles  W.,  539. 

David,  161,  167. 

Dolly,  242. 

Dorcas,  jr.,  133. 

Ebenezer,  520,  523. 

Eliphalet,  32. 

Dr.  Ernest  H.,  309. 

Dr.  Francis  V.,  175. 

George  O.,  609. 

Harriette  E.,  430. 

Henry  J.,  235,  610,  611. 

Herbert  S.,  613. 

Isaac,  33. 

Isaac  P. ,  1 79,  609. 

Serg.  Jacob,  518,  523. 

James,  503. 

Jane,  295. 

John,  1 12,  505. 

John  M.,  527. 

Joseph,  234,  598,  599. 

Martha,  505. 

Mrs.  Mary,  505. 

Moody  B.,  612,  613. 

Nathan,  170,  297. 

Nicholas,  503. 

Paul,   297. 

Mrs.  Rebecca,  297. 

Robert,  522. 

Kobeit  H.,  517. 

Samuel,  297. 

Sarah,  242,  244,  510. 

Sewall  B.,  235. 

Serg.  Simon,  105. 

W.  Herbert,  609,  610. 

William,  103,  214,  599. 

William  H.,  83,  608. 

Woodbridge,  303. 
Nye,  Dr.  Samuel,  129. 

OAK  Hill  cemetery,    14,    92,    iii, 
225,  236,    247,    250,   285,  305, 
310,  332,  340,  393,  396,  397,  474, 

514,  540. 
Oakland  street,   15,  332. 
Oakley,  Arthur  E.,  351. 
Mrs.  CorneHa,  351. 


INDEX 


659 


Oakley,  Violet,  351. 
Obbins,  Solomon,  88. 
O'Brien,  Mrs.  Bets;y,  224. 

David,  223. 

Dennis,  223. 

Hannah,  222,  540. 

Harriet,  224. 

Israel,  234. 

Jeremiah,  221,  222. 

John,  29,  60,    158,    167,    222,    223, 

540,  599- 

Joseph,  123,  222-224,600. 

Marcia,  540. 

Marcy,   222,  540. 

Mary,  234. 

Mary  Johnson,  224. 

Polly,  222. 

Mrs.  Rebecca,   223. 

Richard  Morris,  222. 

Samuel,  103. 

Thomas  Moody,  224. 

A'aleria,  224, 

William,  222,  223. 

\\'illiam  Moody,  224. 
Ocean  avenue,  347. 
Ocean  Mills,  42,  44,  153. 
Ocean  National  Bank,   167,   168,    170, 

253.  254. 
O'Conneil,  George  H.,  287. 
Odd  Fellows,  125. 

hall,  126. 
Oddie,  John  A.   L.,  607. 
Ohio  (steamboat),   70. 
Old  Hill  burying  ground,  15,    18,    in, 

115,  139,  185,209,  213,  218,  219, 

229,  232,  260,  288,  290,  293,  361, 

428-430,  450,  583-589. 
Inscriptions  in,   583-589. 
Old  Ladies'  Home,  139, 140,  203,  401. 

413- 
Old  Men's  Home,  141,  401. 
Old  Newbury  Historical  Society,  207, 

476. 
Old  South  meeting-house,  133. 

Boston,   318. 
Olive  (brig),  251. 
Olive  Branch  (schooner).  20. 
Olive  lane,  31. 
Olive  street,  140,  155,  420. 
Oliver,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  302. 

Thomas,  302. 
Orange  street,   18,  228,  234,  306,  309. 
Orations,  135,  136,  265,  276,  498. 
Oratorios,  182-184, 
Ordway,  John,  199. 

Moses,  58,  518,  525. 

Nathaniel,  300. 

Samuel,  526. 


Ordway,  Stephen,  522. 

Thomas,   31. 
Ordway's  lane,    54,  566. 
Orient  (steamboat),  76. 
Orleans,  Duke  of,  462. 

L.  P.  B.,  462. 
Orne,  P^leanor,  334. 

Eliza,  271. 

Harriet,  415. 

William,  271. 
Orphans,  131-133,  456. 
Osborne,  George  J.,  122. 

George  Jerry,  496. 
Osgood,  Alfred,  607. 

David,  97,  98. 

Dean,  99. 

Edward,  180,  350. 

Enoch,  160. 

Frank  S.,  180,  350. 

George,  609. 

Hannah,  210. 

John,  44,  137,  416. 
Osgood,  James  R.,  &  Co.,   346. 
Oiis,  George,  398. 

Harrison  (iray,  398. 

James  F.,    174. 

Samuel  A.,  599. 

Samuel  AUyne,  164. 
Oxford,  Eng.,  455,  456. 
Oxnard,  Edward,  272. 

Mrs.  Mary,  272, 

Mary  Ann,  272,  274,  409,  410,  413. 

PACATUCK,  572, 
Pacific  coast,  254,  327,  33^,  393- 
Packer,  Edward,  520,  523. 

George,  516,  518-520,  523,  527. 

Dr,  H,  T.,  309, 
Pafford,  John,  no. 
Page,  Asenath  I>yons,  354, 

Charles  W.,  610, 

David  P.,  174,  175,  287,  335. 

John,  521. 

John  T.,  605. 

Richard,  526. 

Ruth,  552. 
Paige,  Serg.  William,  90. 
Paine,  Mrs.  Eliza,  270. 

Robert  Treat,  262,  270,  467,  497. 

Sarah,  415. 

Thomas,  270,  497. 
Painter's  Arms,  Sign  of  the,  16,  348. 
Painters  (art),  347,  348,  352,  353.355. 

359i  375- 
Portrait,  352,  353. 
Palestine,  279,  478. 
Pallas  (brig),  250. 
Palmer,  Andrews,  589. 


66o 


INDEX 


Palmer,  Mrs.  Anna,  588. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  589. 

John,  589. 

Timothy,  28,  in,  588,  589. 
Panama,  Isthmus  of,  393. 
Panther  (iron  collier),  78. 
Parana  river,  393. 
Pardee,  Aaron,  in,  360. 

Benjamin,  521. 

Henry,  31. 

Mrs.  Jane,  360. 
Paris,  France,  106,  248,  307,  329,  351, 
356,  460,  461,  464,  466. 

Salon,  356,  357,  359. 

Treaty  of,  500. 
Park,  Isaac,  224,  526. 

John,  122. 
Park  improvements,  396. 
Parker,  Lt.  Aaron,  88. 

Edgar,  398. 

Edward,  526. 

Ehzabeth,  307. 

George,  527. 

Capt.  Gideon,  88,  92. 

J.  C.  D.,  183. 

Nathaniel,  96,  98. 

Phineas,  242. 

Samuel,  105. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  242. 

Theodore,  175. 

Rev.  Thomas,  503. 

Capt.  William,  22. 
Parker  river,  13,  14,  156,  147,  178,  503, 
538,  570. 

Parmenter,  ,  314. 

Parsons,  Adelaide,  513. 

Arexine  G.,  3S9. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  262. 

Lt.  Enoch,  88,  92. 

Capt.  Harry,  251. 

John  D.,  24,  615. 

Jonathan,  29,  33,  290,348,  457-459- 

Jonathan  Gibson,  290. 

Joseph,  525. 

Lydia,  210,  311. 

Mary,  290. 

Theophilus,  147,  262,  264-266,  269- 
271,  275,  285,  403,  468,  476,  497, 
540. 

T.  W.,513. 
Parsons,  Mass.,  277. 
Parsons  street,  251. 
Parton,  Mrs.  Ellen  Willis,  332. 

Ethel,  348. 

James,   178,  1S5,  333. 

John,  332. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Payson,  332. 
Pastures,  Common,  63. 


Pattee,  William  S.,   512. 
Patton,  Rev.  Myron  O.,  348. 
Paul,  Jeremiah,  377. 
Pauline  (steamboat),  77. 
Pawtucket  canal,   245. 

falls,  70. 
Pay,  William,  88,  97,  98. 
Payson,  Samuel  T.,  602,  604. 
Peabody,  David,  31,  405. 

Francis,  esq.,  190. 

George,  405-407,  524- 

John,  65,  405,  600. 

Mrs.  Judith,  405. 

Stephen,  44,  608. 

Stephen  H.,  519. 

Thomas,  405. 
Peabody,  Mass.,  405,  407,  494, 
Peabody,  David,  &  Co.,  405, 
Peabody,  George,  &  Co.,  406. 
Peabody  Institute,  Danvers,  406. 
Peabody  Manufacturing  Company,  151, 

152. 
Peabody  Mills,  42,  152. 
Peace  Jubilee,  Grand  National,  1S2. 
Peace  Jubilee  and  International  Festi- 
val in  Boston,  182. 
Peak,  Rev.  John,  60, 
Pearce,  Elizabeth,  510,  561, 
Pearson,  Abigail,  226,  385. 

Lt.  Abner,  523. 

Alfred,  610,  612. 

Amos,  92,  1 10. 

Charles,  525. 

David,  no. 

Edmund  C,  609. 

Elizabeth,  215. 

George  F. ,  62. 

George  H.,  183, 

Hannah,  242. 

Henry,  526. 

Isaac,  601 . 

Isaac  G.,  599. 

Jabez  L.,   117,  604. 

Jeremiah,  57,  584. 

John,  135,^37,  155,  157,  170,  599, 
602. 

John  S.,  601. 

Mrs.  Mary,  57. 

Maty  Green,  512. 

Michael,   70. 

Moody,    148. 

Nathaniel,  1 10. 

Robert,  523,  526. 

Theodore,  jr.,  37. 

Thomas,  520,  524. 
Pease,  James,  520,  523. 
Pecker,  Corp.  William,  105. 
Peckham,  George  P.,  613. 


INDEX 


66i 


Peerless  (steamboat),  73. 
Pembroke,  Robert,  94,  97,  q8. 
Pendleton,  Capt.  Bryan,  574. 
Pennsylvania,  351. 

State  house,   470. 

University  of,  268, 
Penobscot  river,  103,  250,  293,  592. 

Expedition,   250,  293. 
Pentucket  Navigation  Company,  75,76. 
People's  Line  of  steamers,  76,  78,  81. 
Peoiia,  111.,  307. 
Pepperell,  Sir  William,  547. 
Perkins,  Mr.,  67. 

Abigail,  360. 

Abraham,  30,  67,  68,  116,  124,  360, 
368,  370,  371,  600. 

Mrs.  Ann,  360-362. 

Anna,  360. 

Anna  Greenleaf,  360. 

Anthony,  370,  521. 

Benjamin,  86,  88,  92,  iir,  125,  243, 
360,  361,  370,  588. 

Charles,  370. 

Charles  L.,  61 1. 

Ebenezer,  360. 

Edmund,  360. 

Edward,  610. 

Elizabeth,  306,  360,  370,  371. 

Esther,  360. 

Hannah,  362,  371. 

Mrs.  Harriet,  306. 

Henry  C,  174,  309,  416. 

Dr.  Henry  Coit,  306,  307. 

Henry  Russell,  307. 

Jacob,  38,  122,   125,  360,  362-371, 
376,  615. 

Jane,  360,  362,  370. 

John,  360,  523,  578. 

Joseph,  361. 

Mrs.  Judith,   578. 

Lucy  A.,  535,  536, 

Mary,  242,  360,  361,  553'554>  564. 
578,  591- 

Mary  Jane,  371. 

Matthew,  360-362,  370,  597,  598. 

Nathan,  360. 

Nathaniel,  370,  516. 

Ruth,  360. 

Sarah,  360. 

Mrs.  Susan  Sanderson,  321. 

Susanna,  360. 

Thaddeus,  371. 

Thomas,  306. 
Perkins,  Edward,  &  Son,  44. 
Perley,  Renton  M.,   238. 

Rev.  Samuel,  419. 

Sidney,  18,  313,  583,  614. 
Perrin,  Augustus,  282. 


Harriet,  282,  487. 
Perry,  Rev.  Gardiner  B.,  500. 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann,  274. 

Oliver  Hazard,  274. 

William,  105,  1 12. 

William  W.,  no. 
Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  338. 
Peter  (brig),  215. 
Peters,  Richard,  524. 
Petersburg,  \'a.,  345. 
Petition  of  William  Farris,  203. 
Pettigrew,  Charles  D.,  609. 
Pettingell,  Benjamin,  112. 

Charlotte  T.,  307, 

James,  49. 

John,  121,  157,  170,  599. 

Jonathan,  522. 

Joshua,  103,  no, 

Mary,  510,  513. 

Matthew,  510. 

Moses,  603. 

Samuel,  161,  605. 

Sarah,  137,  510. 

Capt.  William,  25. 
Petty's  island,  N.  J.,  77,  532. 
Phelps,  Miss,  315. 
Phenix  Fire  Society,  30. 
Phenix  hall,  123,  125,  315,  481. 
Phenix    Marine    and    Fire     Insurance 

Company,  158,  159. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  25,  27,  73,  74,  76, 
78,  79,  107,  190,  220,  261,  266, 
276,313,  318,321,328,332,  351, 
352,  3^6,  362,  363,  367,  368,  371, 
372,  376,  377,  379,  395,  4o6,  417, 
418,  460-463,  467-469,  478,  529, 

532,  554. 
Philadelphia   and    Reading   Coal    and 

and  Iron  Company,  78. 
Philippe,  Louis,  331,  461,  462. 
Phillips,  Henry,  589. 

Hon.  J.,  441. 

Leonard,  521. 

Mrs.  Mary,  589. 

Mehitable,  589. 

Mercy,  545. 

Samuel,  287,  602. 

Wendell,  175. 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,    238,  392. 
Phips,  Samuel,  97,  99. 
Phiebe  (schooner),  225. 
Physical    geography  of    Essex   county, 

539- 
Physicians,    242,    268,    288-310,  463, 

556,  558. 
Pickard,  Hannah,  554. 
Picker,  Joseph,  jr.,  519. 
Pickering,  Timothy,   93,  371. 


662 


INDEX 


"  Pickle  for  the  Knowing  Ones,"  422, 

424,  427. 
Pickman,  Levi,  527. 
Pictou,  N.  S.,  20. 

Pidgeon,  Benjamin,  32,  517-519,  522. 
Pierce,  Balch  W.,  417. 

Charles,  420. 

Daniel,  241,  562. 

David,  97. 

Jacob  W.,  123. 

Mrs.  Jacob  W.,  447. 

Martha,  210,  241. 

Nathaniel,  287,  389,  605,  606. 

Capt.  Nicholas,  522. 

William  P.,  417. 
Pierpont,  Caroline  Augusta,  279. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  278. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Louisa,  279. 

James,  278,  279. 

John,   135,  175,  274,  278,  279. 

Juliette,  279. 

Mary  E.,  279. 

Mrs.  Mary  Sheldon,  278. 

William  Alston,  279. 
Pike,  Abbie  F.,  142. 

Albert,  175,  321,  322,  442. 

Alfred  W.,  558. 

Annie  M.,  137,  138. 

Benjamin,  32,  94,  95,  321. 

Daniel,  88,  94,  517,  519. 

Daniel  P.,  171,  604. 

Dorothy,  225. 

Elias,  110. 

Francis  V.,  287. 

James,  500. 

Capt.  James  F.,  523. 

John  N.,  287,  416,  605,  607. 

Joseph,  94,  no,  521,  558. 

Joseph  S.,  170. 

Mrs.  Lois,  558. 

Mary,  561. 

Mrs.  Mary  Arn,  321. 

Michael,  104. 

Moses,  93,  1 10. 

Nicholas,  48,  97,  159,  249. 

Nicolas,  496,  598. 

Richard,  29,  60,  135,  157,  223. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  321. 

Sarah  W.,  391. 

Timothy,  597. 
Pilling,  Dr.  Simeon  O.,  310. 
Pillsbury,  Charles,  516,  518,  524. 

Daniel,  96,  517. 

David  B. ,  344. 

Enoch,  32. 

Hannah  Rolfe,  344. 

Joshua,   III. 

Lois,  468, 


Pillsbury  Mary,  226. 

Samuel,  in. 

Tristram,  93. 

Dr.  Warren  W.,  310,  464. 

William  C,  516. 
Pillsbury  Genealogy,  344. 
Pinckney  (vessel),  596. 
Pinder,  James,  97,  98, 
Pine  island,  562. 
Pingree,  Daniel  B.,  516. 
Pinkham,  Isaac,  104. 
Piper,  Harriet  C,  391. 

Joseph,  522, 

Joseph  L.,  155. 

William  H.,  176. 
Pipe-Stave  hill,  14,  193,  277,  461. 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  463. 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  308. 
Pittston,  Me.,  317. 
Place,  Samuel,  88. 
*'  Plaine  Deahng,  or  Newes  from  New 

England,"  256. 
Plank  road  on  Plum  island,  398. 
Pleasant   street,    37,  39,  40,  67,   114, 
123,  135,  136,  145-147,  I49>  156, 
170,  174, 181,  185,  236,  293,  309, 
336,  350,  361,  406. 

meeting-house,  49,  135,  136. 
Plum  island,   15-17,  19-27,  70,  72,  73, 
80,  81,  93,   117,    128,    130,  398, 
408,  515,  564. 

beach,  27. 

hotel,  18. 

life  saving  station,  21,  539. 

lighthouse,  23. 
Plum  Island  Point,  25. 
Plumer  (Plummer): 

Mrs.  Abigail,  431. 

Asa,  438. 

Edmund,  438. 

Enoch,  32,  122,  522. 

Francis,  438. 

Frank  H.,  611. 

George  H.,  611. 

Henry  C,  610. 

James,  438. 

Jonathan,  424,  431-438. 

Joseph,  III,  438,  524. 

Mary,  57. 

Nathan,  520. 

Paul,    130. 

Rhoda,  438. 

Richard,  171,  493. 

Samuel  S.,  601. 

Sarah,  438. 

S.  S.,  137. 

Thomas,  524, 

Tris'.ram,  519. 


iMbEX 


663 


Plumer,  William,  130. 

William  P.,  607. 

Wistran,  525. 
Plymouth,  Eng.,  249,  456. 

Mass.,  275,  297. 
Pocahontas  (brig),  18,  19. 
Poems,  135,  270,  278,  279,  282,   312- 
314.  334,  33S'34"o44.  347^  348, 
501,  502,  540,  541,  546,  566. 

Books  of,  312-314. 
Poems  of  religion  and  society,  54 '»  546. 
Poetry,  322,  433-435.  440-443.  54i- 

Books  of,  322. 
Poets,  175,  313,  314,  322,  323,  513- 
Poets  of  Essex  county,  313,  314,  322, 

323- 
Point  a  Petres,  Guadaloupe,  92. 
Point  aux  Trembles,  204. 
Point  Loma,  Cal.,  431. 
Polk,  President,  250. 
Polar  discoveries,  343,  344. 
Polaris  expedition,  327. 
Police,  45. 

court,  280. 

station,  154,  420. 
Polish  revolution,  174. 
Pollock,  Allen,  38. 
Polly  (schooner),  225. 
Pomona  (ship),  243,  244. 
Pomp  (negro),  97. 
Pond  street,  115,  209,  335. 
Pool,  Capt.  Mark,  563. 
Poole,  John,  125. 
Poor,  The,   301,  3S1,  382,  428. 

funds,  380. 
Poor  (Poore) : 

Corp.  Amos,  94. 

Benjamin,  no,  329. 

Ben:  Perley,  178,329-331,406,462, 
466. 

Rev.  Daniel,  532. 

Daniel  S.,  371. 

George,  105. 

Isaac,  516,  522. 

Mary,  505. 

Mrs.  Mary  Perley,  329. 

Nathan,  1 12. 

Samuel,  73. 

Timothy,  1 10. 

Mrs.  \'irginia,  331. 

William,  90,  97,  98. 
Poore's  lane,  14,  15,  198,  570. 
Pope,  Rev.  Louis  A.,  184. 
Popkin,  Rev.  John  S.,  135. 
Population  of  Newburyport,  15. 
Porter,  Mrs.  Hannah,  235,  237,  557. 

John,  70,  148,  154,   156,   161,   162, 
171,235,238,416,  521,  557,  603. 


Port  Hudson,  La.,  283,  343,  485. 
Engagement  at,  283. 

Port  Johnson,  N.  J.,  25. 

Portland,  Me.,  40,  76,  137,  219,  251, 
252,  262,  265,  266,  270,  272,  282, 
311,  405,  407,  408,  462,  468,  469. 

Portrait  of  George  Peabody,  406. 

Portraits,    173,    179,    191,    193,    348, 

350-353.  370,  375.406,  451,  475, 
476. 
Portsmouth,  Eng.,  249. 

N.  H.,  20,  25,  35,  69,  70,  75,  80, 
81,  117,  195,  271,  320,  353,  361, 
405,  420,  441,  457,  459-462,  476, 

534.  548- 
Fort  at,  548. 
Post,  Peter,  522. 
Post-office,  222,  328,  502. 
Postal  service,  470. 
Potter,  James,  31. 
Potter,  Shop,  kiln  and  wheel  of,  59. 
Pottle,  William,  88. 
Potomac  (ship),  564. 
Powder,  Gun,  loi,  573. 
Manufacture  of,  571. 
Pownalborough,  Me.,   318. 
Powow  (steam-tug),  79. 
Powow  river,  461,  531. 
Preble,  Capt.  Jedediah,  loi, 
Presbury,  Edward,  207. 

Mary,  207,  242. 
Presbyterian  church,  585. 
Newburyport,  496. 
minister,  458. 
Prescott,  Mrs.  Ann,  302,  557. 
Charles,  557. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  302. 
Hariiet  Elizabeth,  284,  341. 
Jonathan,   104. 
Joseph  Newmarch,  284,  341. 
Lucy  O.,  215. 
Mary,  302. 

Mary  Newmarch,  341. 
Nathan  A.,  520. 

Oliver,  170,  215,  302,  520,  557. 
Mrs.  Sarah,   284,  341, 
Presidents  of  United  States,   135,  240, 
264,    292,    328,    407,    469,    478, 
484. 
Pressey,  John,   526. 
Price,  Daniel,  94,  98. 
Primrose  (brig),  20. 
Prince,  James,  156,  158,  167,599,  600. 
Rev.  Joseph,  496. 
Samuel,  517,  522. 
William  H.,  520. 
Princess      Elizabeth     (British     packet 
ship),  534. 


664 


INDEX 


Princeton,  N.  J.,  318. 

Printers,    283,    313,    315,    367,    499- 

502. 
Printing  offices,  60,  496,  550. 
Prison,  Mill,   221,  229. 
Prisons,  221,  229,  345. 
Pritchard,  Edward  D.,  389. 

Jacob,  519,  524. 

Stephen,  516. 

William,  72,  604,  605. 
Privateers,  29,  66,  159,  221-223,  229, 
235,  240,  247-250,  267,  506,  507, 

511.  547- 
English,  159. 

French,  159,  235,  247,  248,  547. 
Privy  council.  King's,  570. 
"Proceedings  of  a  Convention  of  Del- 
egates   from    the    New    England 
States   convened  at  Hartford  De- 
cember 15,  1814,"  499. 
Proctor,  Capt.  Jonathan,  563. 

Ens.  Samuel,  92. 
Prospect  street,  303,  396,  419,  44S. 

meeting-house,  436,  448,  449. 
Protector  (Massachusetts  frigate),   209. 
Protestant  Episcopal  church,  195,  317, 

318,  382,  440,  500. 
Prout,  Mrs.  Sarah,  212. 
William  W.,  164. 
William  Welstead,  540. 
William  Wesley,  212,  540. 
Providence,  R.  I.,  81,   145,  314,  317, 

3181  431- 
Provincial  congress,  209. 

N.  II.,  463. 
Public  library,  127,  176,  179,334,  352, 
395,  398,  402,  404-411,  413-417, 
615. 

building,    178,   221,   264,    398,   415- 
418,  420. 

fund,  402. 
Pudding  lane,  243. 
Punch  bowl,  207,  208. 
Purchase  street,  43,  180,  328,  350. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  Ann,  578. 

Elizabeth,  298. 

Col.  Enoch,  104. 

P'rancis  W.,   607. 

James,  99. 

Dr.  James  Jackson,  245,  404. 

John,  519, "523,  525- 

John  J..  609,  610. 

Joseph,  97,  524. 

Mary,  355. 

Oliver,  298,  385,  386. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  385. 

Thomas,  578. 

Thorndike,  386. 


Putnam  Free  school,  298,  338,  339, 
341,  346,  353,  387-389,  390-392, 
395- 

QUARTER  court,  580-582. 
Quascacunquen    lodge    of  I.   O. 
O.  F.,  No,  39,    125-127, 
Quascacunquen  river,   56,  503. 
Quebec,  88,  89,  204-206. 

Expedition  to,  202,  204. 
Queen  of  the  Bay  (schooner),  22. 
Queen  of  the  Merrimack  (water  barge), 

74. 
Queen  street,  62,  121,    199,   213,  218, 

219,  229. 
Boston,  499. 
Queen's  wharf,  32,  34,  35,  219. 
Quincy,  Dorothy,  220. 

Josiah,  267. 
Quincy,  Mass.,  512,  513. 
Quochecho  river,   574. 
Quoddy  Bay,  354. 

RABOTEAU,  Charles  C,  599. 
Racklefft,  Charles  F.,  526. 
Rand,  Charles,  291. 

Edward,    137,    147,    170,   290,   598, 

599- 

Edward  S.,  147,  157,  170,  416,  492, 
600. 

Edward  Sprague,  290. 

George,  291. 

Isaac,  290,  523. 

Jane,   291. 

John,  31,  290. 

Margaret,  338,  550. 

INIatgaret  Dennisjn,  291. 

Mrs.  Martha,  290. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  290. 
Randall,  Moses  D.,  iSi,  182. 
Randlett,  Thomas  L. ,  154. 
Rattlesnake  (iron  collier),  78. 
Rawson,  Edward,  56,  570-577, 
Raybourg,  Alfred,  501. 
Rayner,  Humphrey,  581. 
Readfield,  Me.,  327. 
Reading,  Pa.,  224. 
Reading  rooms,    175,    176,    179,   180, 

410,  413. 
Reasonalle  (English  ship-of-war),  229. 
Reaves,  Samuel,  99. 
Rebecca  (schooner),    18, 
Rebellion,  Shay's,  511. 
Reception  to  Gen.  A.  W.  Greely,  344. 
Reed  (Read): 

Anna  D,,  389. 

Caleb,  527. 

Daniel  M.,  171. 


INDEX 


665 


Reed,  David,  300,  520. 
Enoch  M.,  169,  605. 
James,  149,  226,  417. 
Mrs.  Sarah,  226. 
Selwyn  C,  25. 
Relief  of    Agtd    Females,    Society   for 

the,  138,  139,  382,  413. 
Relief  of  Aged  Men,  Newbury  port  So- 
ciety for  the,  141. 
Representatives  to  general  court,  103, 
200,  203,209,212,214,  220,  228, 
235,  246,258,  261,  266,  271-273, 
275,  279,  2S1-285,  302,  32S,  335, 
473,  477,  482,484,491,  504,565, 

571- 
Revere,  ,  243. 

Paul,   244. 
Revivalists,   455-457. 
Revolution,    189,  192,  194,  203,  209, 
212,  214,216,258,329,  547,  548. 

of   1689,  577. 

American,  462. 

French,  461. 
Revolutionary  relics,  331. 

soldiers,  84-1 12. 

war,  29,  51.  92,  103,  109,  no,  223, 
225,  228,  229,  234,  240,  242,  243, 
285,  419,  453,  474, 508, 532,563, 
578,  614. 
Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  292. 
Rhode  Island,  94,  100,  103,  105,  113, 
125,  261. 

Bishop  of,  318. 

coal,  367. 

Expedition  to,  293. 
Richards,  Alexander,  57. 

Daniel,    158. 

Ellen,   58. 

Humphrey  \V.,  95. 

Rev.  James,    532- 

John,  97,  99. 

Mary  Leonard,  58. 

Oliver,  104. 

Sibyll,   58. 

Mrs.  Sibyll  Sawyer,  57. 
Richardson,  Arthur  C,  491,  608,  609. 
Richmond,  \'a.,  345. 
Ridgeway,  Sally,  349. 
Right  Arm  (steam-tug),  25. 
Riley,  John,  105. 
Ring's  island,   Salisbury,    74,     76,    77, 

15s,  225,  349. 
Rio  Grande  river,  322. 
Rising  Empire  (ship),   392. 
Rising  Sun  Tavern,  452,  453. 
Road,  Old  Amesbury  feriy,  13. 

Curzon  mill,  13. 
Roaf,  George  M.,  609. 


Robbery,  274,  280. 
Robbins,  Captain,   23. 

James,  526. 
Roberts,  Alice,  193. 

Ann,   396. 

Daviii,  94,  97,  98. 

Joseph,  603. 

Rev.  Oliver  A.,  123. 

Parker,  336. 

Robeit,  396,  545,  597. 

Sarah,  396,  545. 
Robeits  college,  343. 
Roberts  street,  133. 
Robey,  Capt.  Joseph,  88. 
Robinson,  Alexander,   520. 

Alice  L.,  354. 

Elizabeth,  347. 

Capt.  John,  105. 

Joshua  Danforth,  335. 

Mrs.  Lucy  P.,  335.  ' 

Robert,   335. 

William,   74. 
Robinson,  Robert,  &  Co.,  335. 
Robinson    Seminary,    Exeter,    N,   IL, 

347- 
Rochester,  Mass.,  308, 
Uockport,  Mass.,  23,  494. 

N.  B.,  18. 
Rock's  bridge,  462. 

village,  480. 
Rogers,  Aaron,  1 10. 

Alice,  63. 

Andrew  W.,  154. 

Benjamin,  29,  128. 

Charles,  88,  520. 

David,  97,  99. 

Rev.  Ezekiel,  581,  582. 

George,  521. 

George  L.,  63,  416. 

Henry,  527. 

Michael,  527. 

Nathaniel,  526. 

Ens.  Reuben  W.,  524. 

Sarah,  399. 

Serg.  Silas,  522. 

William,  524. 
Rogers  street,  262. 
Rolfe,  Joseph,  33. 

Joseph  N.,  494,  562. 

Serg.  Timothy,  105. 
Rollings,  Eliphalet,  94. 

Joseph,  94. 
Romona  (ship),  244. 
Ronney,  Abijah,  96. 
Ropewalks,  37. 
Rose,  Mrs.  Esther,  430. 

William,  430. 
Rose  (ship),   247. 


666 


INDEX 


Rose  cottage,  443,  445. 
Ross,  George  E,,  609,  610. 

Rev,  James  H.,  178. 

John,  100. 

JohnT.,  281. 

Margaret  Ann,  281. 
Rowe,  Jacob  T.,  608. 
Rowell,  Edward  H.,  287. 

Joseph,  32. 
Rowley,  Mass.,  15,   18,    89,    90,  305, 
3i4>  3^5'  439-44  I,  443-  445.  4^8, 
473>  493.  494,  496,  554,  558,  581- 
583. 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  92,  261,  565. 
Roxbury  Carpet  Mills,  398. 
Ruby  (brigantine),  156. 
Ruggles,  Theo  Alice,  401. 
Rural,  Mount,  56-58. 
Russ,  William,  no. 
Russell,  Albert,  71. 

Edward  P.,  607. 

Mrs.  L.  J.  H.,  389. 

William,  158,  167. 

Gov.  William  E.,  340. 
Russell,  Albert,  and  Sons  Company,  42. 
Russia,  234,  249,  253. 
Ryan,  Sarah  D.,  356. 

SACO,  Me.,  382,  414,  574. 
Saco  river,  495. 
Sacred  Music  society,  181. 
Sacramento,  Cal.,   71. 
Salem,  Mass,,  29,  33,  60,  80,  93,  124, 
125,133,  142,  144,  151,  175,  190, 
192,  195.  197.  219, 220,  232,  234, 
247,  249,  257,  261,  268,  271,  280, 
283,  295,  297, 301,  375,  377,  381, 
403,  404,  408,  480,  487,  495-499. 
506,  532,537,  548,  549, 558,  578, 
583,  614. 
Salisbury,    Mass.,    20,  23,  74,  76,   77, 
80,  89,  94,  95,  103,  109,  129, 155, 
219,  225,  253,  279,  298,  468,  481, 
493.  494.  529, 530,  559. 564.  577- 
579,  592-594. 
N.  H.,  307. 
Salisbury  beach,  78,  80,  81. 
Salisbury  Point,  23,  279,  298,  300,  462, 

531.568. 
Sally  Ann  (brig),  247,  248. 
Salt  works,  529,  530. 
Saltonstall,  Captain,  293. 
Capt.  Dudley,  592. 
Dr.  Nathaniel,   129. 
Richard,  577,  580,  581. 
Samiloff,  Prof.  A.,  341. 

Mme.  Anna,  341. 
Sampson,  Davenport  &  Co.,  502. 


Sampson  &  Murdock  Co.,  502. 
Sampson,  Murdock  &  Co.,  502. 
San  Antonio,  Tex.,  335. 
Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  375. 

Greene,  601. 
Sanborne,  Harriet,  343. 
San  Diego,  CaL,  343. 
San  Domingo,  468. 
Sandgate,  Eng.,  325. 
Sandwich,  Kenlshire,  Eng.,  198. 
Sandwich  Islands,  254. 
Sandy  beach,   20,  21. 
San  Francisco,  Cal.,  71,  138,  283,284, 

411,  413.  417- 
San  Joaquin  river,   71. 
Santa  Cruz,  225,  405. 
Sarah  (ship),  130,  372. 

Wreck  of,  130. 
Sarah  (steamboat),  71. 
Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  315,  563. 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  351, 
Sargent,  Aaron  Augustus,  283. 

Aaron  P.,  283. 

Abigail,  407. 

Charles  H.,  81,  615. 

Charles  R.,  71. 

Daniel,  546. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  283. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Swett,  283. 

John  W.,  24,  t8o,  612. 

Leonard  W.,  44. 

Mrs.  INIary,  546. 

Miriam,  244. 

Nathaniel  Peaslee,  577. 

Robert  G.,  608. 

William  11.,  153. 
Saturday  Evening  Union,  327. 
Saturday  Night  (newspaper),  329. 
Saunders,  Benjamin,  153. 

George,  104. 

William,  527. 
Savage,  Mrs.  Mehitable,  589. 

Thomas,  589. 
Savannah,  Ga.,  275,  320,  345,  455,  456. 
Sawmill  at  Pine  island,  562. 
Sawyer,  Albert  P.,  44. 

Elizabeth,  215. 

Dr.  Enoch,  291,  588. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  405. 

Hannah  Farnham,  292. 

Dr.  J.  H.,  309. 

Mary  Ann,  292. 

Matthias  Plant,  405. 

Micajah,    57,    128,    129,    164,  258, 
260,  288,  291-293. 

Dr.  Moses,  405. 

Mrs.  Sibyll,  57,  260,  291. 

William,  292. 


INDEX 


667 


Sawyer  Hill  burying  ground,   no. 
Saxonville,  Mass.,  398. 
Sayres,  Capt.  Robert,   503. 
Say  ward,  Jonathan,  T04. 
Scarborough,  Me.,    266,  467. 
Schalkwyck,  Mrs.  Mary  \an,  271. 
Schley,  Capt.  Winfield  S.,  344. 
Schofield  Brothers,  147, 
School  books,  341. 

committee,  27S. 

Decoration  of,  1S5. 

District,  327,  385. 
No.  2,  385. 

Evening,  298. 

funds.  Contributions  to,  385. 

Grammar,  227,  230,  244. 

teachers,  280,  313,  327,  331,  332, 
338.  339,  400,  407,  408,  410,  436, 
438,  48i,55i>  553>  555>.S56. 

houses,    387,   447,    47S,    4S0,   534- 

537- 
Schoolhouse,  Charles  street,  534-537. 
School  street,  315,  457,  458. 
Schools,  338-340,  351,  353,   358,  407, 

408,  414,  477.  481,  500- 
Schooners,  17-20,  22-27,  69,   79,   221- 

223,  225,  252. 
Schuyler,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann,   292. 

Philip  Jeremiah,  292. 
Scituate,  Mass.,  281,  514. 
Scotland,  155,  208,  245,  407,  465. 
Scott,  Mrs.  Hannah,  554. 

Joel,   161,  554. 

John,  521,  549,  554,  600. 

Mrs.  Mary,  554. 

Robert,  363. 

Walter,  175,  465. 
Scottish  rite,  Masons,  322. 
Seabrook,  N.  H.,  419. 
Sea  Fencibles,  239,  515. 
Seamen's    Friend    Society,    American, 

142. 
Searle,  George,  164,  201,  598. 

Mrs.  Mary  Russell,    201. 

Ens.  William,  92. 
Sears,  John  Henry,  13,  14,  539. 
Seaver,  Edwin  P.,  340. 
Second  church,  Newbury,    180,  498. 

Scarborough,  Me.,  467. 
Second  Presbyterian  church,  320,  552. 
Second   Unitarian    church,    New  York 

city,  512. 
Secretary  of  Massachusetts    Bay   Colo- 

ony,  573-576. 

Seelye,  Charles  D.,  391. 

Selectmen,  46-49,  51,  52,  60,  91,  597- 

602. 
Senate,  State,  221,  261,  265,  268. 


Senate,  United  States,  329,  331. 

chamber,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  470. 
Senatorial  districts,  278,  493,  494. 

Division  into,  278, 
Senators,  State,  252,  271-273,277,  281, 
283,  402,  469,  485,  491-494,  565- 
United  States,  266,  267,  283. 
Serapis  (vessel),  531. 
"  Sermon     Delivered    November    26, 
180S,  at  the  Interment  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Gary,"  etc.,  499. 
"  Sermon   by    Rev.    Isaac    Braman  at 
the  Ordination  of  the  Rev.  Gardi- 
ner B.  Perry,"  etc.,  500. 
"  Sermon  DeHvered  March  9,  1819,  at 
the    funeral    of   the  Rev.   Samuel 
Spring,  D.  D.,"  500. 
"Sermon    Occasioned    by    the   much 
lamented    Death    of     Col.   Moses 
Titccmb,"  etc.,  499. 
Sermons,  129,  279,  320,  348,433,  437, 
440,  448,  495-499,  501,  512,532. 
Sewall,  Mrs.  Anne,   580. 
Mr?.  Ellen,  580. 
Henry,  580-582. 
Mrs.  Margaret,  580. 
Shaion,  Conn.,  556. 
Shattuck,  Dr.,  305. 

Shaw, ,  481. 

Benjamin,  564. 
Charles,  367. 

Edward  P.,  45,  66,  73,  76,  80,  494. 
Holland,  51. 
James  F. ,  494. 
Dr.  John  W.,  310. 
Mary  Ann,  389. 
Samuel,  no. 
William,  517,  521,  524. 
Shays,  Daniel,  511. 
Shay's  rebellion,  511. 
Shenandoah  (schooner),  27. 
Shepard,  Col.  Edward  O.,  62,  252. 
Capt.  Isaac,  71. 
Mrs.  Mary  Coffin,  252. 
Shepherd,  Sarah  Perkins,  415. 
Shepherdsville,  Ky.,  410. 
Shillaber,  Mrs.  Dorcas,  558. 

Ebenezer,  558. 
Ship  street,  235,  243. 
Ship-builders,   241,  242,  31 1. 

carpenters,  207,  210,  211,  233,  243, 

262. 
roaster?,   215,    216,    239,  242,   253, 

515,  564. 
owners,  413,  474,  564. 
wrecks,  16-20,  22-26,  130,  201. 
wrighls,  233,  262. 
yards,   113,  207,  209,  241-243,  594. 


668 


INDEX 


Ships,  i8,  130,  155-157,  163,205,207, 
208,  212,  213,  215,  221,  229,  239, 
243,  244,  246,  247,  250-254,  325, 
355,357,  372,392,  461,  503,  5", 
592,  596. 
Short,  Charles,  524. 
George,  524. 
Joseph,  jr.,  524. 
Moses,  no,  112. 
Nicholas,  523. 
Richard,  1 10. 
Capt.  Samuel,  23. 
Sign  of  the  Painters'  Arms,  16,  348. 
Sign  of  the  Pestle  and  Mortar,  301. 
Sign  of  General  Wolfe,  120. 
Sign,  Wolfe  tavern,  120,  350. 
Sigourney,  Mrs.  L.  H.,  501. 
Silk  Company,  Newburyport,  148. 
Silk,  Culture  of,  148. 
Silloway,  Daniel,  371. 
Jas.,  527,  528. 
John,  88. 

Joseph,  518,  520,  523. 
Wm.,  527. 
Silver  buckles,  209. 
Silver  Greys,  515. 
Silver  Star  (steamboat),  72. 
Silver  ware,  173,  399,  400,  428,  447. 
Simpson,  Mrs.  Abigail,  397. 
Adam,  105. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.,  398. 
Mrs.  Evangeline,  398. 
John,  105, 
Mabel,  S64. 
Michael" IL,  418. 
Michael  Ilodge,  397,  398. 
Paul,  397. 
Susan,  389. 

Thomas  C,  131,  287,  537,  564,  608, 
609. 
"  Simpson  Annex,"  413. 
Singing,  180-184. 
books,  59,  180. 
Sixth  regiment,  272,  330. 
Sixty- fourth  regiment,  190. 
Skeels,  Amos,  524. 
Skinner,  Mrs.  Frances  Ellen,  352. 
Frank  Bevan,  352,  353. 
Dr.  George  W.,  309. 
Slavery,  317,  32S,  461. 
Slaves,  317,  497. 
Sloops,  17,  27,  211,  221,  225,  596. 

of  war,  297,  405,  511. 
Small,  Capt.  J.,  20. 

Smibert,  ,  258. 

Smith,  Anthony,  521,  601. 
Augusta  J.,  140. 
Caroline,  57. 


Smith,  Charles  F.,  30. 

Charles  T.,  287,  606,  607. 
Daniel,  31,  522. 

Daniel  ll.,   71. 

Mrs.  Dorothy,  57,  260. 

Edmund,  445,  447. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  414. 
Elizabeth  F.,  414. 

Ephraim,  524. 

Ephraim  I.,  516-520. 

Euphemia,  327. 

Mrs.  E.  Vale,    117,  614. 

Foster,  326,  523. 

Hannah,  504. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Maria,  219. 

Mrs.  H.  M.,  183. 

Hoel,  525. 

Isaac,  88,  129. 

James,  104. 

Lt.  Jared,  92. 

Jeremiah,  104,  404. 

Joel,  523. 

John, 88. 

John  Adams,  219. 

John  H.,  177. 

Jonathan,   607. 

Josiah,  57,  58,  89,  260,  587,  598. 

Justin,  137. 

Leonard,  28,  32,  65,  599. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  260,  5S7. 

Martha,  252. 

Mrs.  Mary,  57. 

Mrs.  Mary  Euphemia,  326,  327. 

Dr.  Mayo,  326. 

Mary  Vale,  327. 

Nathaniel,  144. 

Rachel,  554. 

Rebecca,  564. 

Richard,  112,  598. 

Samuel,  526. 

Sarah,  2S4. 

Sibyll  Sawyer,  57. 

Stephen,  104. 

Lt.  Sylvanus,  92. 

Rev.  Thomas,  468. 

Washington,  414. 

Wm.,  526. 

Woosler,  502. 
Smith  &  Parmenler,  314. 
Smith's  court,  326. 
Smither,  James,  363. 
Snelling,  Dr.  William,  288. 
Snow,  Dr.  Frank  W.,  310. 

Dr.  George  \V.,  309. 
Snow  storms,  16,  17,  40,  407. 
Society  of  American  artists,   355,   359- 
Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Females, 
382 


INDEX 


669 


Society  for  the  Relief  of  Aged  Men,  141. 
Soldiers,  109,  185,  243,  325,  399,400. 

and  sailors,  185. 

home,  Chelsea,  345. 

Monument  association,  400. 

at  Plum  island,   515-524. 

of  the  Revolution,  84-112,  511. 
Somerby,  Abiel,  32. 

Arthur,  519,  523. 

C.  A.,  125. 

Daniel,  in. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  317. 

Enoch,  526. 

John,  31. 

Joseph,  15,  428. 

Moses,  no,  in. 

Thomas,  47,  123.  516,  517,  523. 

William,  517. 
Somerby's  landing,  419. 
Somersworth,  N.  H.,  215. 
Somerville,  Mass.,  244. 
South  America,  385,  392,  393,  398. 
South  Carolina,  278,  371,  474. 
South  church,  Ipswich,  495,  497,  498. 
South  End  Reading  Room  association, 

179. 
South  Hampton,  N.  H.,  298. 
South  Newmarket,  N.  H.,  382. 
South  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  319. 
South  street,  397,  439. 
Spain,  150,  174,229,482,484,500,532. 

Minister  to,  484. 
Spamins,  Peter,  104. 
Spalding,  Jeptha,  121,  122. 

Julia  B.,  142. 

Oliver,  521. 

Prescott,  31,  600. 

Samuel  J.,  171,  177,  329,  348,  473, 
536. 

Sarah  J.,  143. 
Spencer,  Elizabeth,  446,  447. 

George,  44S. 

Jeremiah,  104. 

John,  447,  503. 

Joseph,  448. 

Thomas,  447. 

William,  447, 
Spencer-Pierce  house,  461. 
Spiller,  Daniel,  522. 
Spofford,  Dr.  Amos,  305,  558. 

Dr.  Daniel  11.,  309. 

Mrs.  Frances,  284. 

Mrs.  Frances  Maria,  305,  558. 

Mrs.    Harriet    Elizabeth,    284,  341, 
342. 

Mrs.  Irene,  305,  558. 

Jesse,  105. 

Richard    S.,  32,  44,  149,   163,  284, 
287,  305,  309,341,  343,  501,  558. 


Spofford,  Dr.  Richard  Smith,  284. 

Richard  Spofford,  341. 
Spooner,  Hannah  Jones,  468. 
Sprague,  Archibald,   52. 

Mrs.  Catherine,  301. 

Edward,  289. 

John,  27,  288- 290,  597. 

Dr.  Lawrence,  102  ,232,  300,  301. 

Martha,  289,  290. 

Mary,  289,  290. 

Michael,  289. 

Mrs.  Prudence,  289. 

Ruth,  289,  290. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  102,  103,  300,  301. 

William,  289. 
Spring,  Mrs.  Fanny  M.,  411. 

John,  88. 

Capt.  John  Hopkins,  411. 

John  R. ,  138,  417. 

John  Rand,  411-413. 

Lewis,  524. 

Samuel,  112,    129,    134,    348,  500, 

524,  533- 

Mrs.  Sarah  Ann,  411. 
Spring  street,  309. 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  Sarah  Creese,  476. 

William,  476. 
Stacy,  Ruth,  281,  551,  552. 
Stall,  John  G.,  521. 
St.  Aloysius    de    Gonzaya,  Church  of, 

235- 
Stallard,  Thomas,  525. 
Standard  Oil  Company,  155. 
Standish,  Me.,  311. 
St.  Andrew's  church,  317,  318. 
Stanhope,  Lady  Hester,  480. 
Staniford,  Margaret,  260. 

Mary,  272. 
Stanley,  Benjamin  F.,  609. 
Stanwood,  Atkinson,  138. 
Daniel,  516,  517. 
Joseph,  97,  no. 
Michael,   98. 
Thomas,  37,  no. 
William,  522. 
Star  Island,  Isles  of  Shoals,  547. 

Stone  chapel  on,  548. 
Startled  Fawn  (steamboat),  76. 
State  house,  93,  106,  274,  405,  407. 

Pennsylvania,  470. 
State  street,  16,  36,  53,  114,  117,  120, 
123,  125,  126,  145,  146,  156,  158, 
167-172,  174,  176,  194,  197,  201, 
213,  216,  218,  219,  221,  225-227, 
257,  261,  275,  289, 293,  300,  301, 
305,  306,  309,  319, 330,  336, 348- 
350,  352,  378,  405,  406,  408,  413, 
416,  41 7,  420, 439,  453,  454,  463, 
473,  499,  500.  533.  550-553,  556. 


670 


INDEX 


State  university,  La.,  109. 
St.  Barbe,  Captain,  221. 

Lydia,  219,  220. 
Steamboats,  23,  25,  69-75,  77»  78,  80, 

81. 
Steamers,  Line  of,  393. 
Steam  gun,  368. 

navigation,  69. 
Steam-tugs,   20,  25,  74-76,  78,  79,  81. 
Stearns,  Eben  S.,  125,  339. 

Ezekiel,  104. 
Stebbins,  C,  367. 
Stedman,  Ebenezer,  31,  521. 

Sarah,  102. 
Steele,  Ebenezer,  234. 

Mrs.  Mary,  234. 
Stereotype  plates,  365-368. 
Stetson,  Mr.,  454. 
Stetson,  Prince,  &  Co.,  377,  378. 
St.  Eustatius,  225. 
Stevens,  Albert  W.,  416,  493. 

Benjamin,  522. 

Charles  B.,   72. 

Cyrus  P.,  63. 

Frank  E.,  21. 

George  H.,  613. 

Hannah  M. ,  317. 

Isaac,  602. 

John,  94,  105,  521. 

John  P.,  153. 

Joseph,  91. 

Rev.  Josiah,  548. 

Michael,  526. 

Moses,  604. 

Samuel,  72,  417. 

Serg.  Saul,  522. 
Stickney,   ,  498. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  241. 

Amos,  112. 

Andrew,  112. 

Caleb,  58. 

David,  63,  68,  215,  556. 

Dorothy,  280,  550. 

Edward  S.,  414. 

Mrs.  Eliza,  215. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  63,  414. 

Elizabeth  Le  Breton,  63. 

Enoch,  520. 

Eunice,  226. 

George  E.,  610. 

Hannah,  508. 

Hannah  Lee,  63. 

Capt.  Jacob.  525. 

Jeremiah,  68. 

John,  32,  94,  97,  98,  597,   598. 

Jonathan,  241. 

Joseph,  519,  525. 

Mrs.  Mary,  550. 


Stickney,  Mary  Thurston,  63. 
Peter  Le  Breton,  63. 
Samuel,  94. 
William,  88,  112,  550. 
Stickney's  lane,  63. 
Stiles,  Bertha  May,   391. 
Dr.  Charles  W.,  309. 
Stimpson,  Capt.  E.  E.,  73. 
St.  John,  N.  B.,  25,  448. 
St.  John,  the  Baptist,  121,  122. 

Festival  of,  276,  49S. 
St.  John's  lodge  of  Freemasons,     119, 

120,  122,  123,  276. 
St.  John  river,  96. 
St.  Lawrence  gulf,  379. 

river,  379. 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  281,  321,  347,  356. 
St.  Lucie,  Island  of,  349. 
St.  Mark's  lodge  of  Freemasons,    123, 

215'  276,  350. 
St.  Mary's  church,  319. 

Stocker,  ,   385. 

Ebenezer,  29,   128,    129,    157,   164, 

203,  349,  599. 
John,  199. 
Stockman,  Charles  C,  610. 
John,  97-99. 
Michael,  91,  97. 
William,   31. 
Stockton,  Cal.,  71. 
Stoddard,  Thomas,  527,  528. 
Stoddert,  Ben,  593,  595. 
Stone,  Corp.  Daniel,  518. 

Eben   F.,    114,  175,  176,  178,  214, 
258,  287,  292,  400,  416,  418,  493, 
606. 
Eben  Francis,  282,  485-487. 
Ebenezer,  254,  282,  485,  601. 
Mrs.  Eliza,  339. 
Mrs.  Fanny,  254,  282,  485. 
Mrs.  Harriet,  282,  487. 
Isaac,  136,  600. 
Jacob,  169,  174,  339,  600. 
John,   44,  88,  9698,  104,  525,  602. 
Louisa  P.,  389. 
Louisa  Parsons,  339. 
Mary,  210,  560. 
Richard,    149,  16S,  361,  601. 
Sarah  Moody,  254,  395. 
Thomas  B.,   519,  524. 
William,  31,  519. 
Stonman,  John,  97,  98. 

William,   91. 
Stoodley,  Betsey,  235,  239,  317. 
Storey  avenue,  no,  in,  186,399,401. 
Story  (Storey): 
Judge,  311. 
Mrs.  Anna  Gertrude,  92. 


INDEX 


671 


Story,  Caroline  A.  W.,  64. 

Charles  W.,  64,  92,  225. 

Dr.  Elisha,  91. 

Elizabeth,  92,  306. 

Joseph,  372. 

Mrs.  Lydia,  92. 

Lydia  M.,  64,  225. 

Mariana  Teresa,  92. 

Mrs.  Mary,  92. 

Moorfield,  esq.,  92. 

Susan,  92. 

Susan  Tappan,  92. 

William,  92. 
Stover,  Joseph,  526. 
St.  Paul's  church,  59,   121,   122,    129, 
180,  199,  201,  203,  213,  219,  268, 
304,.  3 14,  322,  382,  500,  536,  590. 

Brookline,  Mass.,  382. 

Windsor,  Vt.,  382. 

churchyard,  in,  120,  155,  194-196, 
198,  199,  201-203,  213,  214,216, 
218,  219,  263,  267,  268,  295,  308, 

452,  545- 
St.  Peter's  charity  fund,    122,  123. 
St.  Peter's  lodge  of  Freemasons,   120- 

123,  215,  275,  276. 
Street  improvements,  396. 

railways,  77,  78. 

sprinkling,  398,  533. 
Streets,    14,  15,  18,  19,  31,  32,  61-63, 
67,  68. 

numbered,  533. 
Strong,  Caleb,  271,  467, 

Martha,  272. 
Strong  street,  68,  148,   197,    198,  308, 

309,  422. 
Strover,  Miss.,   198. 
St.  Thomas'    church,    Dover,    N.  H., 

382. 
Sudbury,  Mass.,  219. 
Suffolk  county,  Mass.,  284,  409,  574. 
Sullivan,  General,   100,  103,  113,  293. 
Summer  street,  58,  59. 
Summers,  James,  94,  97,  98. 
Sumner,  Ann,  285. 

Eben,  65,  169,  400. 

Ebenezer,  65,  66. 

Mary  F.,  66. 

Michael.  524. 
Sumner,  Swasey  &  Currier,  400. 
Sunbeam  (schooner),  20. 
Superior  court,  41. 

New  Hampshire,  476. 
Supreme    court,    262,     266-269,     279, 
284,  2S6,  404,  471,  482. 

United  States,  484. 
Surgeons,  293,  296-298,  301,  303,  305. 
Surprise  (English  frigate),   249. 


Swain,  Cornelia,  351. 

Jacob,  521. 

Levi,  350. 

Mrs.  Maria,  351. 

Mrs.  Phebe,  350. 

William,  350,  351. 
Swallow  (sloop),  225. 
Swan,  Richard,  88. 
Swansea,  Cireat  Britain,  234. 
Swasey,  Henry  S.,  399. 

John  B.,  287. 

Joseph,  30,  208. 

Samuel,  234,  518,  525. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  399. 

Mrs.  Susan,  400. 

William  H.,  44,  45,    144,    178,   399, 
400,  417,  418. 
Sweat,  Edward,  jr.,  30. 

Enoch,  93. 
Sweet,  Edmund,  521. 

Jonathan,  517. 
Sweetser,  Serg.  Benjamin  G.,  521. 

Mrs.  Edith  A.,  346. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  346. 

Moses,  177,  346. 

Moses  Foster,  346. 

Mrs.  Sally,  132,  133. 
Swett,  Mrs.  Abigail,  560. 

Mrs.  Charlotte,  294,  404. 

Daniel,  600. 

Edmund,  31,    161,    167,    251,  509, 
560. 

Dr.  John  B.,  119,  124,  125. 

Dr.  John  Barnard,  293-295,  404. 

Joseph  (Barnard),  191,  192. 

Mrs.  Lucia,  404. 

Mrs.  Mary,  560. 

Ruth,  191,  194. 

Samuel,  224,    225,    293,    402,    404, 
405,  541. 

Sarah  B,,  251,  509. 

William  B.,  371. 
Swett,  William  B.,  &  Co.,  404. 
Symonds,  Mark,  31,  72,  151,  169,  416. 

TABERNACLE,  The,  59,  60. 
Tabernacle  church,  Salem,  532. 
Taggard,  Mrs.  Ann  T.,  400. 

Cyrus  Henry,  400. 
Talbot,  Nathaniel,  522. 
Tankard,  Silver,  243,  244. 
Tapley,  William,  105. 
Task,  Oxford,  104. 
Taunton,  Mass.,  255,  270. 
Tavern  on  Deer  island,  122. 

Wolfe,  156,  3 78. 
Taverns,    29,84,  117,   120,    122,    156, 
378. 


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INDEX 


Taylor,  Joseph,  521. 

Teal,  Israel,  88. 

Teel,  William,  84. 

Teling,  John,  96. 

Temperance,   314,  315,  317,  325,  326, 

328. 
Temple,  John,   272. 

Lucy,  272. 
Temple  street,  37,  38,  52,  59,  60,  119, 

228,  234,  293,  294,  556. 
Tenney,  Daniel  Ingalls,  399,  417. 

Edward,  105. 

Hiram  A.,  177. 

Lois,  558. 

Richard,  399. 

Mrs.  Ruth,  399. 

Samuel,  137,  157,  160,  170. 
Tennison,  William,   522. 
Tewksbury,  Mass.,  477. 
Thacher,  Betsey  Hayward,  275. 

Elizabeth  Jones,  559. 

Hon.  George,  286,  559. 

Harriet,  238. 

Dr.  James,  275,  297. 

Peter,  286, 
Theological  Seminary,  Alexandria, Va., 
321. 

Andover,  580. 
Third  Essex  senatorial  district,  494. 
Third  Massachusetts  congressional  dis- 
trict, 481. 
Third  Parish  church,  565. 
Third  Parish  meeting-house,  291. 
Third  Parish  in  Newbury,  49. 
Third  Religious  society,  459. 
Thomas,  Abigail,  225. 

Mrs.  Ann,  267,  544. 

Catherine,  301. 

Isaiah,  377. 

Mrs.  Martha.  266,  267. 

Peter,  97. 

Thomas,  89,    100,    112,    221,    238, 
250,  266,  267,  301,  421,  544. 
Thomas  &  Tinges,  495. 
Thomas  &    Whipple,    372,    375,    425, 

49  7i  499- 
Thomaston,  Me.,  23,  399. 
Thompson,  Amos  A.,   178. 

Amos  H.,  391. 

Lt.  Caleb,  88. 

Daniel,   328. 

George,  523. 

Hugh,  94. 

John,  103,  495- 

Mrs.  Persis  Matilda,  328. 

Sarah,  133. 

Sarah  Arabella,  328. 

Thomas,  598,  599. 


"Thorn  Cottage,  or  the  Poet's  Home," 

441. 
Thornton,  Hannah,  463. 

James,  463. 

Dr.  Matthew,  463,  464. 
Thornton   ferry,    Merrimack,    N.    H., 

464. 
Threadneedle  alley,  120,  156,  408,  454. 
Three  Brothers  (steamboat),  80, 
Thurlo,  Moody  A.,  162. 
Thurlow,  William,  607. 
Thurlow  Weed  (steam-tug),  74,  78,  79. 
Thurston,  Enoch,  60,  61,  251. 

John,  61. 

Martha,  61. 

Stephen,  168. 
Thurston  &  Colman,  44. 
Tibbetts,  Russell  S.,  179. 
Tidd,  Peter,  18. 
Tigh,  Dr.  Frederick,  309. 
Tigris  (vessel),  327. 
Tilton,  Daniel,  525. 

Dudley  D.,  171. 

Capt.  J.  F.,  77. 

Dr.  James  A.,  309. 

John,  417. 

John  C,  80. 

John  E.,  502. 

John  G.,  325. 

Phebe,  281,  513. 

Stephen,    31,    161,    167,  417,   521, 
601. 
Tilton,  Stephen,  &  Company,  417. 
Tiney,  John,  523. 
Tinges,  Henry  Walter,  495,  510, 
Tingley,  Mrs.  Katherine,  431. 
Titcomb,  Captain,  515. 

Albert  C,  609. 

B.  B.,  137. 

Benaiah,  48,  54. 

Charles,  537. 

Edward,  522. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  54. 

Enoch,  54,  III,  246,  492,  597. 

George,  136. 

Hannah  Dummer,  102. 

Henry,  31,  168. 

Jeremiah,  525. 

John  B.,  31,  599. 

JohnH.,  525. 

Jonathan,  32,    86,    89,    94,   99-103, 
III,  113,  598. 

Joseph,  32,  199. 

Joseph  Moody,  282. 

Joshua,  89,  112,  246. 

Josiah,  102. 

Martha,  102,  267. 

Martha  Frothingham,  282. 


INDkX 


673 


Titcomh,  Mrs.  Mary,  102. 

Michael,  43,  99,  112. 

Miriam,  216,  218. 

Moses,  104,  216,  499. 

Capt.  Oliver,  563. 

Capt.  Paul,  521. 

Prurience,   289. 

Sarah,  54,  102,  103,  300,  301. 

Zebulon,  99. 
Titcomb  house,  53-56. 
Titcomb,  Gen.  Jonathan,  Residence  of, 

102. 
Titcomb  street,   31,  40,  305,  307,  309. 
Todd,  Mrs.  Betsey,  334,  410. 

Ebenezer,  334,  410. 

Eli,  M.  D.,  501. 

Francis,  301,  317,  524. 

Julia  Ann,  409. 

Mrs.  Martha  W. ,  67. 

Thomas,  523. 

William  B.,  417. 

William  C,  176-178,  427. 

William  Cleaves,  334.  410,  41 1. 
Toggerson,  Capt.  |ames,  20. 
«'Tom  Folio,"  336,  337. 
Tomb,  Rev.  Samuel,  498. 
Tonsburg,  Norway,  139. 
Topography.  13,  14. 
Toppan  (Tappan) : 

Captain,  594. 

Abraham,  451. 

Amos,  600. 

Ann  G. ,  144. 

Benjamin,  93,  525. 

Benjamin  Ilenry,  97,  98. 

Caleb,  222. 

Charles,  368,  395,  396,  554. 

Edward,  29,    no,    in,    156,    554, 
602,  603. 

Elizabeth,  57,  241-243. 

Enoch,  451. 

Enoch  Clark,  453. 

Enoch  Coliiian,  451-453. 

Fanny,   242,  306. 

Hannah,  222,  540. 

Harriet,  552. 

Capt.  Isaac  G.,  18. 

Jacob,   57. 

Jeremiah  P.,  136,  521. 

John,  37,  III. 

Joseph,   447. 

Mrs.  Joseph,  447. 

Joshua,  306,  556,  600. 

"Mrs.  Laura  Ann,  395,  554. 

Lydia,  223. 

Marcia,  210. 

Margaret,  306,  556. 

Mrs.  Mary,  451,  453. 


Toppan,  Mary  Chase,  473. 

Michael,  32. 

Dr.  Peter,  288. 

Mrs.  Rachel,  554. 

Robert  N.,  178. 

Robert  Noxon,  395. 

Sarah,  27c,  402,  451. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Moody,  395. 

Sewall,  37,  600. 

Stephen,  no,  in. 

Wigglesworth,    112. 
Toppan,    Carpenter,    Casilear   &    Co., 

351.  368. 
Toppan's  lane,  57,  58,  257,  304,  409. 
Toppan  street,  56,  372,  401. 
Topsfield,  Mass.,  280,   297,  468,  494, 

549.  555- 
Topsham,  Me.,  553. 
Torrens,  Prof.  L.  A.,  183. 
Towle,  Elizabeth  A.,  391. 

Samuel  E.,  604. 
Towle  Manufacturing  Company,  400. 
Town  clerks,  242,  274,  306. 

Newbury,  571. 
Town  crier,  50-53. 

hall,  114,  136,  138,  170,  174,  181. 

house,  84. 

Newbury,  174. 
Salem,  190. 
Towne,  Joseph  B.,  31. 
Tracy, ,  228. 

Eleanor  St.  Barbe,  219. 

Ehzabeth,  218,  219. 

Hannah,    216,  220,   244,   245,   269, 

403- 

Harriet  Maria,  219. 

Helen,  142. 

Henrietta,  242. 

Henrietta  Louisa,  219. 

John,  III,  119,  195,  216,  218,  460. 

Mrs.  Lydia,  219,  220. 

Matthew,  218. 

Mrs.  Miriam,  216,  218,  219. 

Nathaniel,  119,  195,  196,  209,  216, 
221,  461,  491,  598. 

Nicholas,  116,  216,  218-220,  584. 

Patrick,  88,  216,  217,  220. 

Prince,  104. 

Robert,  218. 
Tracy  house,   114,  117,  176,  264,  413, 

416,  420. 
Training  green,  295,  327. 
Trask,  Lt.  Moses,  88. 

Oxford,  97,  98. 
Treadwell,  Mary,  439,  555. 
Treasurer,  City,  537,  613. 

County,  50. 

Town,  381. 


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INDEX 


Treaties  of  peace,    io6,  136,  484,  531, 

with  France,  531, 

of  Washington,  484. 

of  1815,  136. 
Tredick,  Dorcas,  138. 
Trenton,  N.  J.,  266. 
Trevecca,  Wales,  448. 
Trinity  college,  317,  318, 
Trowbridge,  Judge,  257, 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  279,  551. 
True,  Ezekiel,  516,  525. 

Jemima,  578. 
Truesdall,  Artemas  W.,  519,  520,  523. 

Trumbull,  ,  232. 

Trusdale,  A.  W.,  517. 
Tucker,  Captain,  206. 

Benjamin,  16,  348,  349. 

Ichabod,  375. 

Rev.  John,  348,  496. 

Mrs.  Sally,  349. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  348. 
Tufts,  Rev.  John,  180. 

John  W.,  334. 

Oxford,  91. 

Samuel,  598. 

Simeon,  599. 
Tupper,  Col.  Benjamin,  90. 

Joseph,  524. 
Turkey  hill,  87,  88. 
Turner,  Timothy,  esq.,  595. 

Col.  William,  105. 
Tuttle,  Charles  W.,  287,  408. 

Gov.  Hiram  A.,  464. 

John  B.,  72. 
Twelfth  Massachusetts  regiment,  91. 
Twitchell,  Dr.,  305. 
Two-hundredth     anniversary     celebra- 
tion, 274. 
"  Two  Sermons  addressed  to    the  Sec- 
ond Presbyterian  Society  in  New- 
buryport,"  etc.,  500. 
Tyerman,  Rev.  L.,  457. 
Tyler,  WilHam  H.,  520. 
Tyng,  Name  of,  267. 
Tyng  family,  43. 

Tyng,  Dudley  A.,  124,  125,   128,    129, 
147,  492. 

Dudley  Atkins,    164,  201,  228,  267, 
268,  281,  548,552,  579. 

Mary  Cabot,  281,  552. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  268. 
Rev.  Stephen  H.,  332. 
Rev.  Stephen  Higginson,  268. 
Tyng  street,  41,  335. 
Tyngsborough,  Mass.,  267,  268. 
Tyson,  G.  E.,  327. 


U 


HLER,  Mrs.  Frances  Ellen,  352. 
Nicholas  Biddle,  352. 


Unicorn  street,  67. 
Union  Fire  society,  29,  30. 
Union  hall,  122,  123,  125,  157,  158. 
Union  Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 158. 
Union  Mutual  Marine  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 162. 
Union  Press,  502. 
Union  street,  154,  179,  196,  297. 
United  Rebekah  lodge  01  I.  O.  O.  F., 

No.  13,  127. 
United  States,  203-205,  228,  230,  246, 
249,  270,  272,  277,  278,  298,  307, 
328,  345-347.  354,  356,  377,  406, 
407,  433'  461,  462,  465,  466,  473, 
474,478,  482,  484,  531. 
army,  344. 
circuit  court,  284. 
constitution,  266,  396. 
consul,  392. 
district  attorney    for    Massachusetts, 

281. 
district  court,  261. 
government,  123,  212,  344,  346. 
life  saving  service,  22,  27. 
life  saving  station,  21. 
naval  transport  service,  565. 
senators,  214,  266,  267. 
signal  corps,  343. 
Unity  (sloop),  221. 
Universalis!  church,  Boston,  460. 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  268. 
Upham,  Captain,  23. 
Phineas,  275. 
Susan,  275. 
Upper  green,  185. 
Upper  long  wharf,  218,  229. 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  411. 

WALE,  Gilbert,  326, 

^      Mrs.  Hepsibah,  326. 
Mary  Euphemia,  326. 

Valparaiso,  Chile,  283,  392,  393. 

Van  Baggen,  Parker  &  Co.,  248. 

Van  Buren,  Rev.  James  II.,  24,  348. 

Van  Humel,  ,  248. 

Varina,  Edward  E.,  45. 
Nicholas,  72. 

Vattamore,  Alexandre,  464-466. 

Vatter,  Capt.  Henry,  75,  80. 

Vengeance  (privateer),  250,  267. 

Vergnies,  Francis,  170. 

Vermilye,  Rev.  Ashbel  G.,  348. 

Vessels,  16-20,  23-27,  46,  74,  90,  92, 
I03i  15S1  157-160,  192,  205,  207, 
208,  216,  221-223,  225,  228,  234, 
242,  243,  246-250,  253,  317,325, 
327,  392,. 393,  407,  474,  515,  531, 
547.  548,  592-596. 


INDEX 


675 


Vesta  (yacht),  83. 

Vestal  (English  frigate),  241;. 

Veteran  Artillery  association,  114,  117, 

iiS. 
Vickery,  Joshua,  46. 

Williaiii,  526. 
Victoria  Mills,  151,  152. 
Views    of    Newburyport,    frontispiece^ 

15,  16. 
Vigilant  Fire  society,  31,  32. 
Villard,  Mts.  Henry,  317. 
Virginia  (schooner),  23. 
"  \'ision,"  "  A,"  263,  541. 
VoUon,  A.,  356. 

WADE,  Colonel.  100. 
Mrs.  G.  K.  B.,  310. 

Nathaniel,  88,  90,  440. 

Robert,  9S. 
Wadleigh,  Benjamin  H.,  519,  524. 
Wadlin,  Melvin  T.,  608. 
Wainwright,  Francis,    198. 

Mary,  198,  200. 
Waite,  Sarah,  242. 
Waite,  J.  B.,  &  Co.,  278. 
Waldoborough,  Me.,  286. 
Wales,  Herbert  E.,  81. 
Walker,  Charles,   520. 

Eleazer  R.,  71. 

Isaac,  59. 
Wallabout  cemetery,  323. 
Wallace,  William  H.,  613. 
Walnut  Hill  cemetery,  West  Newbury, 

331- 
Walsh,  Ebenezer,  522. 

James,  31. 

Michael,  279,  298,  311,  481. 
Walter,  Samuel,  525. 
Waltham,  Mass.,  245. 
Walton,  Eliza,  320. 

Mrs.  Margaret,  320. 

Rev.  William  C,  320. 
\\'anderer  (steam-tug),  80. 
War    between    France   and    England, 
210,  21 1,  376. 

in  (iermany,  460. 

of   1812,  159,  239,  313. 

Mexican,  482. 
War,  Board  of,  loi,  102,  220. 

Declaration  of,  278. 

department,   314. 

Secretary  of,  203. 
Ward, ,  407. 

James,  94,  97,  98. 

Rev.  Nathaniel,  256. 

Pickering,  18. 
Warner,  Nathaniel,  518,  525. 
Warner  Cotton  Mills,  151,  152. 


Warren,  Rev.  Edward,  532. 

Joseph,  121,  350. 

Capt.  Nathaniel,  88,  92. 
Warren  (brigantine),  592. 
Warren    (United    States    ship-of-war), 

594-596- 
Warren  street,  309. 
Warriner,  Mary,  275. 
Warville,  John  Pierre  Brissot  de.  461, 
Washburn,  Rev.  Edward  A.,  348. 

Gov.  William  B.,  445. 
Washington,     General,    99,     106-108, 

350. 
George,    106,    114,    136,   228,  270, 

276,  416,  422,  460, 498. 
Mrs.  George,  469. 
Washington,    D.  C,    21,  22,  92,    169, 

214,  276,  283,  284,  292,  314,  320, 

322,  329,  331, 338, 341,  344,  346, 

410,  417,  473,474,477,  478,  480- 

482,  484,  485,  365. 
Washington  hall,  122,  123,  129,  163. 
Washington  street,   31,  196,  197,  229, 

262,  297.300,  302,  307,  334,  347, 

3.58. 
Washington  Benevolent   society,    131;, 

278. 
Washington's  birthday,  135. 
Washington  Light  Guard,  114. 
Washington  Light  artillery,  114. 
Washington  Light  infantry,   116,   117, 

515- 
Washington,  Statue  of,  319,  399,  422. 
Washingtonian  Total  Abstinence  socie- 
ty. 315- 
Wasp    (United    .States    sloop-of-war), 

405. 
Water  street,    31,  151,  152,  207,   210- 
212,  216,  222,  237,  239,  240,  242, 
295,  327.  347'  392,  400,  463,  566. 
Waterman,  Luther,  160,  212. 

Mrs.  Mary,  212. 
Waters,  Mrs.  Clara,  347,  348. 

Mrs.  Clara  Erskine,  225. 

Mrs.  Clara  Erskine  (Clement),  92. 

Edwin  Forbes,  347,  34S. 

Lillian  H.,  343. 

Rachel,  197. 

Samuel,  197. 
Watertown,  Mass.,  209,  220,  257. 
Waterville,  Me.,  71,  222. 
Watkins,  Andrew,  289. 

Elizabeth,  289. 

John,  289. 

William,  289. 
Wattel,  Benjamin,  97. 
Watts,  Doctor,  497. 
Wauwinet  (steam-tug),   76. 


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INDEX 


Weare,  N.  H.,  315. 

Webb,  George  J.,  181. 

Webber,  Mrs.  Anna  Winslow,  564. 

Caroline,  564. 

George,  564. 

John,  104,  563. 

John  A,,  564. 

Matilda,  564. 

Mrs.  Rachel,  563, 

Mrs.  Rebecca,   564. 

Samuel,  104,  563,  564. 

Mrs.  Saiah,  564. 

Sophia,   564. 
Webster,    Benjamin,    100,    334,    352, 

473.  474,  592,  594- 
Daniel,  274,  276,  277,  280,  282. 
John,  50. 
Rebecca,  280. 
Washington,  516. 
Weed,  Lt,  Charles,  94. 

Daniel,  447. 
Weil,  Dr,  Conrad,  411. 
Weld,  Rev.  Ezra,  57,  258,  260. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  57,  260. 
Welch,  George  H.,  180,  613. 
John,  103. 
Jonathan  C,  525. 
William,  524. 
William  H.,    127. 
Wells,  Daniel,  527,  528. 
John,  252,  523. 
Mrs.  Martha,  252. 
Richard,  520,  523. 
Mrs.  Sarah,  252,  253. 
William  H.,  387. 
William  V.,  106. 
Wells,  Me.,  574. 
Wendell,  Dr.  Coburn  D.,  310. 
Wendell,  N.  H.,  290. 
Wenham,  Mass.,  301,  302,  468,  494. 
Wentworth,  Joseph,  524. 
Wesley,  Charles,  455. 

John,  455. 
Wessacumcon  Steam  Mills,  149,  236. 
West  Indies,  156,  189,  213,  214,  216, 
223,  225,  226,  228, 234,  247,  250, 
253,    297,    349,    392,    427,    557, 
564. 
West  Newbury,    Mass.,    15,    63,    148, 
178-180,  193,  226,  277,  327-329, 
•  331,  354, 385,  402,  406,  462,  466, 
491,  493,  494,  551,  556. 
West  Newton,  Mass.,  339. 
Weston,  Job,  612, 

Luther,   527. 
Wetmore,  Mrs.  Eliza,  271. 
Wharf  of  Wm.  Coombs,  esq.,  130. 
Jackson's,  68. 


Wharves,  15,  34,  35,  68,  71,  78,   136, 
199,  208,  218,  219,  227, 234,  240, 

243,  251,  451- 
Wheeler,  Hylas  T.,  387. 

Rebecca,  297. 

Samuel,  517,  523. 
Wheelwright,  Abraham,  246,  440,  591, 

599- 
Mrs.  Anna,  212,  392,  557. 
Ebenezer,  60,    147,    156,    165,   170, 

212,  392,  517,  521,550,557,601. 
Elizabeth,  441. 
Elizabeth  Cogswell,  591. 
George  W.,  417. 
Serg.  Jeremiah,  525. 
Maria  Augusta,  140. 
Mrs.  Martha  G.,  140,  417. 
Martha  Gerrish,  238,  392. 
Rebecca,  246,  247. 
Mrs.  Rebecca,  246,    318,  320,  321, 

591. 

Samuel  A.,  501. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  557. 

William,  140,  238,  392-395,  417- 
Wheelwright  fund,  395. 
Whicher,  Morrill,  97,  98. 

Moses,  97,  98. 
Whipple,  ,  497,  499. 

Benjamin,  95. 

Charles,  500,  521. 

Edwin  P.,  175. 

James  K.,  137. 

Samuel  K.,  417. 
Whistles,  Steam  fire,  42. 
Whitcomb,  Mary  E.,  326. 
White,  Mrs.  Betsey,  298,  555. 

Daniel  A.,  67,  68,  135,  287,  600. 

Daniel    Appleton,    271,    280,    480, 
492,  499. 

Mrs.  Eliza,  271. 

Elizabeth,  242,  271,  306. 

Elizabeth  Amelia,  271. 

Gilman,  48,  306,  314,  555,  599,600. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  192. 

Isabella  Hazen,  271. 

John,  94,  97,  98,  298. 

Leonard,  590. 

Mary,  227,  271,  414,   590. 

Peggy  Leonard,  550. 

Hon.  PhiUips,  298. 

Samuel,  192. 

Thomas  B.,  517,  523,  555. 
White  Fawn  (steamboat),  80. 
Whitefield,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  455,  456. 

Rev.  George, 455-457,  459,497,501. 

Thomas,  455. 
Whitefield  Congregational    church  and 
society,  536. 


INDEX 


677 


Whitefield  Mills,  153. 
Whiting,  Ann,  302,  557. 

Leonard,  302. 

Nathan,  96,  98. 
Whitman,  Hon.  Ezekiel,  311. 

Lucy,  201. 

Susanna,  311. 
Whitmore,  David,  33. 

Jonathan,  33. 

Joseph,    III. 

William,  524. 
Whitney,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Bass,  356. 

James  E.,  502. 

Myron  W.,  183. 

Nathan,  97. 

Rev.  Peter,  512. 
Whiton,  Harry  F.,  613. 
Whittemore,  Eliza,  414. 

Joseph,  88,  197,  516,  517. 

Mary,  197. 

Rachel,  197,  322. 

Susan  Floyd,  344. 
Whittier,  Heniy  Z.,  609. 

John  G.,  323,  324,  352,  480,  501. 

Serg.  Morrill,  90,  94. 

Serg.  Mo.>es,  90. 
Whood,  Samuel,  524, 
Wiggin,  Comfort,  382. 
Wigglesworth,  Edward,  29,  93,  95,  96, 
98,  no,  117,  119,  147,  227,  228, 

538,  598. 

Jehiel,  501. 

Margaret,  550. 

Mrs.  Martha,  227. 

Rev.  Samuel,  227. 
Wilbur,  Edward  P.,  417. 
Wilde,  Mrs.  Ann,  285. 

Caroline  Elizabeth,    279,    286,  482, 
500,  559. 

Daniel,  285. 

Hon.  Samuel  S.,  279,  482,  559. 

Hon.  Samuel  Sumner,  285,  286. 
Wildes,  A.  W.,  163. 

Asa  W.,  287,  555,  601. 

Asa  Waldo,  274,  280. 

Mrs.  Bethiah,  280,  555. 

Dudley,  280,  555. 

Mrs,  Eliza  Ann,   280,  555. 

Dr.  Josiah,  271. 

Mary,  271. 

Susan  A,.  354. 
Willett,  Benjamin,  99. 

James  W.,  539. 

Nathaniel,  91,  97,  98. 
William  Carroll  (schooner),  23. 
William  P.  Johnson  (ship),  215. 
WilHams,  Abbie  W.,  239. 

Abraham,    28,  167,   308,  409,    524, 
560,  600. 


Williams,  Mrs.  Ann,  409. 

Mrs.  Annie  Moseley,  304. 

Bishop,   318. 

Mrs.  Caroline  Hall,  239. 

Charles  Jackson,  304. 

Constance,  304. 

Elsie,  304. 

Elizabeth,  295. 

Enoch  S.,  149,  165,  604. 

Dr.  F.,  239. 

Francis  Cabot,   304. 

George,  295. 

George  W.  A.,  303,  304,  417. 

Georgianna,   304. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  303,  304. 

Mrs.  Hannah  M.,  409. 

Helen  Ladd,  304. 

John  J.,  235. 

John  Q.  A.,  303,  304. 

John  Quincy  Adams,  409. 

Joseph,  158,  336. 

Joseph  Balch,  304. 

Lemuel  S.,  540. 

Mrs.  Lydia  Ann,  540. 

Martha  Moody,  304. 

Pearce  Penhallow,  304. 

Robert,  28. 

Robert  B.,  jr.,  417. 

Mrs.  Susan  Lydia,  303,  304. 

William  C,  160. 
Williams,  Abraham,  fund,  409. 
Williamson,  ^^'illiam,  91,  94,  97,  98. 
Willis,  Benjamin,  282. 

Elizabeth,  282. 

Joseph,  97,  99. 

Nancy,  282, 

Sarah  Payson,  332, 

William,  468. 
Wills,  John,  142,  147,   156,   161,   167, 
601. 

John  N.,  71. 

Rufus  A.,  606. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  253. 

William  H.,  175. 
Wills,  R.,  &  Son,  416. 
Wilmington,  Del.,  72. 

Mass.,  315. 
Wilson,  Rev.  John,  572. 

John  Parker,  104. 

Joseph,  422,  519,  524. 

Simon  E.,  609. 

William  K.,  521. 
Winder,  Mr.,  593. 

John  W.,  184. 

Robin,  96. 
Windham,  Conn.,  272. 
Wind  mill,  16. 
Windsor,  \'t.,  267,  382. 
Wingate,  Elizabeth,  291. 


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INDEX 


Wingate,  Joseph,  437. 

Col.  Joshua,  291, 
Winkley,  J.  Otis,  607-609. 
Winslow,  Sarah,  267,  268,  556. 

Sidney  W.,  154. 
Winter  street,   31,    37,   68,    128,    179, 

229,  300,  451. 
Winthrop,  John,  jr.,  572,  580. 
Wiscasset,  Me.,  19,  463. 
"  Wishiad,"  502. 
Witchcraft,   536,  566,  578. 
Withington,  Arthur,  287,  611,  612. 

David  L.,  114,  178,  287. 

Leonard,  174,  175,  501. 

Lothrop,  348. 

Nathan  N.,  177,  178,  348,400,415, 
491. 
Woarl,  Mary,  131,  132. 

W.,  207. 

WiUiam,    63,  64,  67,  68,  125,    128, 
129,  135'  157.  158,600. 
Woburn,  Mass.,  347. 
Wolfe,  General,  120,  350. 

James,  esq.,  378. 
Wolfe,  General,  Sign  of,  120. 
Wolfe  tavern,    29,  67,  120,   128,   156, 
171,  306,  350,  377,  378,  454,  460, 

590-  ... 

Women's  Christian  Association,  146. 

Wood,  Mr.,  452. 

Mrs.  Abigail,  560. 

Abner,  165,  247,  599. 

Albert,  70. 

Charles  G.,  417. 

David,  30,  291,  417. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  66. 

George,  314,  315. 

George  A.,  417. 

Hannah  B.,  45. 

James,  518,  519,  525. 

Mrs.  Jane,  291. 

Jane  R.,  28. 

John,    66,  70,   154,   161,    162,   167, 
600,  601. 

Jonathan,  520,  523,  560. 

Mrs.  Mary,  314. 

Samuel,  519. 

Thomas,  103,  519. 

William,  314,  518,  522. 
Wood,  John,  &  Son,  399. 
Woodbridge, ,  524. 

John, 571. 

Sarah,"  189,  191,  193,  277. 
Woodbury,  Benjamin,  104. 

James,  104. 

John,  104. 

LydiaM.,  303,  304. 

Sarah  Eliza,  335. 


Woodbury,  N.  J.,  352. 

Woodland    street,    14,    15,    145,    473, 

570. 
Woodman,  Alfred,  347. 

Ann,  265. 

Archelaus,  56. 

Charles,  347. 

Charles  T.,  315. 

Daniel,  346. 

Edward,  571. 

George  F.,  81,  180,  539,  612. 

Mrs.  Hannah,  315. 

Hercules,  56. 

Jas.,  524. 

Jonathan,  49,  92,  no,  112. 

Joseph,  3d,  517. 

Joseph  H.,  315. 

Mary,  346,  347. 

Miriam,  508. 

Moses,  97,  98. 

Nathaniel,  520,  522. 

Mrs.  Sarah,  346. 
Woods,  Frank  O.,  135. 

Rev.  Leonard,  D.  D.,  500. 
Wood  well,  David  T.,  493,  604. 

Gideon,  33,  no,  112,  584. 

John,  215,  608. 

Joseph  A.,  607. 
Woolen  Manufacturing  Company,New- 

buryport,  146,  147. 
Worcester,  George  W.,  145,  309. 

Rev.  Samuel,  532. 
Worcester,  Mass.,  182,  320,  326,  335, 

365,  377,  400,  454,  463,  540. 
Worrell,  Mrs.  Margare:  F.,  478. 
Worth,  Lionel,  570. 
Wreck  of  schooner  Carrie  H.  Spofford, 

24. 
Wrecks,  24,  74,  372,  392. 
Wright,  Mrs.  Eliza,  215. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth,  556. 

Henry  C,  63,  215,  556. 

Miriam,  556. 

Seth,  556. 
Wyatt,  Benjamin,  60,  600. 

Stephen,  97,  99. 

Thomas,  516-518. 
Wyer,  Nathaniel,  jr.,  520. 

William,  30,  124,  599. 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Margaret,  306,  556. 

Mrs.  Mary  W.,  305,  556. 

Dr.  Samuel  W.,  309,  556. 

Dr.  Samuel  Wheeler,  305. 

William,  305,  556. 

YACHTS,  27,  80-83. 
Yale  college,  272,  278,  310,  318, 
320,  406,  413,  549. 


INDEX 


679 


Yarmouth,  Eng.,  451. 

Me.,  27. 

Mass.,  286. 
Yarn,  Cotton,  151. 

Woolen,  238. 
Yatte,  Thomas,  516,  518. 
Yellow  fever,  294,  372. 
Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  239,  352. 
York,  John,  88,  89. 
York,   Me.,    20,  257,  286,  349, 

457- 
Young,  Eben  A.,  610. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth,  212,  440. 


456, 


Young,  Israel,  164,  212,  599. 
Serg.  James,  516,  522. 
John,  525 
Dr.  John  F.,  309. 
Corp.  William,  525. 
Young    Men's   Christian    Association, 

I4S>  319.  401. 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association, 
146,  401. 

ZANESVILLE,  O.,  477. 
Zepher  (steam  yacht),  80. 
Zerrahn,  Carl,  183. 


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